Note 102 — PEPTIC PRECEPTS.
Reading edition
“People who have Relaxed Bowels have seldom strong thoughts or strong bodies.”—Locke on Education, sec. 23.
“The cure for relaxed Nerves (the source of all chronic disorders) must necessarily begin at the Stomach. He who attempts to cure a Nervous distemper without firm Bowels—labours in vain; for it is impossible that the Constitution of those who have Slippery Bowels—should ever be braced.”—Cheyne on Long Life, p. 107.