INDEX.

Advantages of Deep Breathing, 84, 111

Albuminuria (Bright’s Disease), 116

Animal Food, Injurious Effects of, 51, 60, 61

Animal Food Unnecessary, 50, 158

Stimulating, 160

Acute Stage in the Cure of Chronic Disease, 222

Appetite, Tempting the, Mischievous, 66, 157, 262, 267

Appetite and Insanity, 141, 144

Apoplexy, 149

Air-Baths, 166, 171, 172

and Dyspepsia, 168

Apples and Summer-Complaint, 193

Bad Blood, 180

Bacillus Theory, The, of Consumption, 80

Blood, Bad, 180

Bathing, 90, 98, 166, 171, 172

Bed, A word About the, 102

Bowels, Consumption of the, 81

Forced Movement of the, Unhygienic, 110

Baths, Sun, 175

Air, 166, 171, 172

Injurious Forms of, 172

Biliousness, 152

and “Rich” Food, 153

Bright’s Disease (Albuminuria), 116

Symptoms of, 125, 127, 130

Breathing, Deep, 84, 111, 137

Careless, 137

Open-mouth, 101

Difficult, how Relieved, 101

Beef-tea Fallacy, The, 60, 61, 254

Brain, Pumping away the Effete Matters from the, 137

Bran (Wheat Hulls) Under the Microscope, 187

Brain Workers and Stimulation, 252

Bears, Honey-loving, 263

Continence, Influence of Diet in the Matter of, 265

Continence for Consumption, Essentiality of, 105

Credulity and Ignorance, 22

Cold Air not necessarily Pure, 240

Colds, 35, 36, 37, 41, 45, 171, 218

Influence of Diet on, 40, 218

Natural Cure of, 41

the Name a Misnomer, 45

Franklin’s Idea of, 171

Absurdity of, 40, 41, 42

Clothing, Day, 120

Night, 103

Constipation, 65, 107, 248

at Child-birth, 107

Consumption, 28

Curability of, 29

Congestion of the Lungs, How Produced, 99

Congestion of the Lungs from Indigestion, 99

Cheerfulness, Importance of, 77, 98

Carpets and Health, 97

Consumption, Out-door Life Essential to the Cure of, 30, 48

Consumption, Dyspepsia the Parent of, 54

Consumption from Fatty Degeneration, 79

Constipation, when “Closed Bowels” are not, strictly speaking, 65, 107

Constipation from Deficient Diet, 112

Chilliness, How to Remove, 109

Controlling the Symptoms, Folly of the Theory of, 112

Cures, Some Natural, 75, 85, 114, 168, 175

Climate, A Cold, Influence on the Kidneys, 116, 117

Croup as a Symptom in Albuminuria, 128

Catarrh, 153

Specific Treatment for, Danger of, 130

Catarrh, Suppressed and Diabetes, 130

Caffeine allied to Quinine, 244

Coffee, 243

and Indigestion, 251

and Insomnia, 139

and Health, 255

a Diuretic, 251

Cleanliness and Insomnia, 138

Cooking Vegetables, some Hints about, 177

Cooking, Injurious Effects of, 207, 210

Cost of Living, 206

Cure, The Raw-Food, 217

Chronic Diseases usually the Result of Chronic Provocation, 147

Child-birth, Constipation at, Normal, 107

Cistern Water, Stagnant, How to Renovate, 212

Christmas Dinner, A “Natural”, 227

Change of Air at Home, 237

Cream, Unwholesomeness of, 231

Caffeine, Artificial, How Manufactured, 248

Coffee and Courage, 258

and Tea more Injurious than Beer, 261

Coffee and Alcohol, Physiological Effects of, Similar, 259

Conclusion, 270

Cramming the Sick, Mania for, 59, 66, 76, 146

Diet, The Natural, 207

Various Hints about, 88, 153

Abstemious, for Consumptives, 89, 90, 92

Diet, Prevailing, Unwholesome, 227

Excessive, Promotes Consumption, How, 81, 82, 83

Diet, Influence of, on Health, 48, 59, 66, 81, 88, 99, 112, 113, 122, 126

Diet, A Physiological, 197

and Virtue, 265

Diabetes from Suppressed Nasal Catarrh, 130

Diabetes, Treatment for, 130

Death, Sudden, Accounted for, 31, 32, 149

Death Penalty, The, Nature’s Commutation of, 147, 148

Disease, The Temper, 39

Hunger a, 39

Providence and, 8, 9, 17

Prevalence of, 9, 14

Exciting Causes of, 11, 12

Predisposing Causes of, 11, 12, 35, 40

Diseases Arising from Renal Disorder, 130

Dyspepsia, 168

Doctors, A Prescription for, 95

Dry Diet, Advantages of, 93

Degeneration, Fatty, 78, 79, 80, 148, 150

Digestive and Muscular Capacity Compared, 68, 230

Dysentery, A Hint Concerning, 113

Diathesis, The “Disease”, 132

Unimportance of the Question of, 132

Dyspepsia and Dreams, 133

Diphtheria a Phase of Albuminuria, 128

The Class of Persons most Subject to, 128

Diuretics, The Best of All, 124

Diuretic, Coffee a, 251

Diseases, The True Interpretation of, 133

Dyspeptics are Recruited, How, 157

Diarrhœa, Chronic, Cured with Watermelons, 192

Driven Cow’s Milk Unnatural, 212

Digestion, Primary, in the Mouth, 93

Eating Alone Sometimes Useful, 176

Eating at Bed-time for Sleeplessness, 144

Error, A Common, 113

Exercise, Passive, 113

Exercise, The True Problem About, 70

Exercise for Consumptives, 69

Exercise, 68, 89, 90, 109, 119

Expectorants, Natural, 89, 91, 105

Exercise, Lack of, How to Counteract, 195

Exercise After Eating, 201, 202

Fruit vs. Fish, Flesh, Fowl & Co. in Hot Weather, 191

Fruit in Winter, 211

Food Poisonous Unless Digested, 246

Food and Virtue, 53, 265

Fæces, Source of the, 111

Foul Air, Poor Economy to Save, 87

Food, The Natural, of Man, 48, 72, 207

Food, “Rich,” Injurious, 88, 153

Hot or Cold?, 99

Fasts, Professional, Value of, 74

Fasting, Notable Instances of, 72, 73, 140, 168

Fasting, Constipation Normal during, 107, 112

Fasting Cure, The, 42, 43, 145, 153, 168

Food as a Purgative, 113, 114, 194

Fatty Degeneration, 79, 80, 148, 150

Obesity not a Requisite of, 79

Fever, 153

Food, Raw, and Health, 17, 223, 224

Flies and Health, 97

Fruit, 94, 191, 194

Food, The Quantity of, Relation of Climate to, 117

Fruit vs. Physic, 194

Fossil Bodies, 24, 183, 246

Livers, 179

Fasting and Insanity, 140

Flesh-food Fallacy, The, 158

and Bread Compared, 159

Often Diseased, 160

Question, Moral Aspect of the, 163

Flesh-food and Heredity, 164

Unfairness of the Advocates of, 160

Franklin’s Idea of “Colds”, 171

Gastric Juice, Proportion of, Secreted, 93

Gout, 131, 209

Gouty Habit, The, a Symptom of Bright’s Disease, 131

Guiteau’s Appetite, 144

Grape-Cure, The, 214

Guano and Coffee, 248

Gnawing Stomach a Disease, 39

Hogs, Experiments on, 82

Hay-fever, 153, 209

Health Easily Secured, 18

Robust, how Promoted, 85, 96

A Duty, 19, 27, 35

Relation of, to Morals, 7, 54, 265, 270

Health the Safeguard against Contagion, 10, 11, 12

Heart Disease, 149

How to Keep Well, 96

Hints and Aphorisms, 154

House-cleaning in the “Living Temple”, 155

Hulls, Wheat, Under the Microscope, 187

Hunger Disease, The, 201

Hot Air may still be Pure, 240

Heart, Palpitation of the, from Coffee-drinking, 244

Hot Water as a Medicine, 98, 100

Herb Drinks and Female Weakness, 251

Insomnia and Air-bath, 138

a Symptom only, 134

Ignorance and Credulity, 22, 23

Insomnia and Coffee, 137

Insomnia, 133

Indigestion a Phase of Rheumatism, 145

Indigestion a Cause of Congestion of the Lungs, 99

Indigestion from Excess in Diet, 93

Intemperance, How Propagated, 55, 56, 261

Insanity and Fasting, 140

Insane? Who Are and Who are Not, 134

Insane, The, Usually Ravenous Eaters, 141

Infants are “Loved” to Death, How, 16

Japanese, Muscular, how fed, 161

Kidney Disease Unknown at the Arctics, 116, 117

Koch’s Theory of Consumption, 80

Kitchen-Curse, The, 233

Laziness a Disease, 34, 58

Liver Complaint, 168

Livers, “Fossil”, 179

Liver, Mercury “to Clear Out” the, 180

Lungs, Congestion of, from Indigestion, 99

Long Faces to the Rear, in Sickness, 103

Long Life, How Promoted, 85

Milk not a Natural Food for Adults, 153

Morality and Digestion, 157

Malaria, 236, 241, 247

Model Meal, A, 226

Meals, Number of, for Health, 48, 62, 72, 197

Mercury, to “Clear Out” the Liver, 180

Milk Fever from Excessive Diet, 150

Muscular Japanese, How the, are fed, 161

Milk and Biliousness, 152

Milk, 65, 152, 212

Mastication, Importance of Thorough, 92, 93

Moral Torpor a Disease, 34

Medicine, Hot Water as a, 98, 100

Why the Nostrum-makers Thrive, 25, 26

Natural Diet, The, 207

Nature Defeated by “Treatment”, 258

Nightmare from Using Tobacco, 251

Neuralgia, A Hint Concerning, 153

Nervous Prostration, A Hint Concerning, 253

Normal Constipation, 107

Night-air Superstition, The, 48

Nutrition the Grand Factor in Prevention or Cure, 58

Nausea and Hot Water, 100

Open Windows for Consumptives, 89

for Sewer Gas, 236

Obesity, Natural Cure of, 148

One-meal System, The, 62, 197

Organs, How all the Vital, become Degenerated, 181

Passions, Influence of Diet upon the, 265

Passive Exercise for Consumptives, 99

Constipation, 109, 113

Piles, How, are Produced, 111

Premature Deaths, 16, 230

Pneumonia, 102

Poison, “One’s Meat Another’s”, 43

How Food becomes, 61, 246

Providence and Disease, 8, 9, 17

Practice, the Reform, Obstacles to, 66, 95

Physiology a Part of Theology, 34

Physic, Good Health the Best, 108

Bad Effects of, 107

Fruit the Best, 194

Pain, the Office of, Friendly, 134

Pure Air, Popular Ignorance Concerning, 237

Pure Air, How to Ensure it, 239

Physical Independence, 255

Prejudice, Popular, against Reform, 234

Purgative, Tobacco as a, 250

Purgative, Food as a, 113, 114, 194

Quinine and Caffeine Closely Allied, 244

Roman Fever, The Cause of, 236

Race Horses are Injured, How, 198

Reform, A Rational, 234

Reformed Practice, Obstacles to the, 22, 66, 95

Rest after Meals, 200, 202

Regimen, The Traditional, 121

Rheumatism, 145

A Phase of Indigestion, 145

Chronic, Treatment for, 147

Rich Food a Cause of Biliousness, 153

Supportive Treatment, The, 258

Salisbury Theory, The, of Consumption, 81

Saline Starvation, 177

Scorbutic (Scurvy) Condition Predisposes to Zymotic Diseases, 10

Sedentary Life, Effects of a, 78, 84

Scrofula, Something About, 175, 194, 229, 231

Sickness, The Absurdity of, 9

Scrofulous Humors, How Manufactured, 231

Self-cure, Mrs. E.’s Story of her own, 85

Sewer-gas, 236

Straining at Stool Injurious, 110

Stimulation of the Kidneys Unnatural, 126

Skin, The Adaptability of the Skin to Sudden Changes of Temperature, 35

Sympathetic Nervous System, The, 31, 46

Starvation, Eating Sometimes Hastens, 72

Starvation, Saline, 177

Starvation Dyspeptic, 58, 66

Stomach, The, the most abused of all the Organs, 46

Sugar, Artificial, Injurious, 78

Stomach Baths, 100

Signs of Disordered, 57

Stomachs, Sensitive, and Wheat Hulls, 189

Sleeping Alone, 106

Sleep, Efforts to Induce, Self-defeating, 135, 136

Sun-Baths, 171

Sunday Headaches, Cause of the, 200

Symptoms, Controlling The (!), 112

Stimulation from Diphtheritic Poison, 258

Stimulation, The true Theory about, 257

Sleeplessness Cured by Late Eating, 144

an Analogue of Pain, 135

Sunstrokes, Cause of, 196

Sleep, Regular Hours for, Necessary, 135

Summer Tortures, How avoided, 195

Traditional Regimen, The, 121

Treatment, The “Supportive”, 258

Tobacco and Insomnia, 137

as a Purgative, 250

Treating in Eating, 156

Teeth, One Cause of Poor, 207, 249

Typhoid Subject, A, 15

Telegraph System, Wonders of the Human, 31, 46

Table, A Well-furnished, 79

Toothache, 153

Thirst, How to Prevent, 98, 100

Tongue, The Story Told by the, 63

Unnaturalness of the Prevailing Diet, 227, 265, 266

Variety in Food not desirable, 92, 213

Virtue, Influence of Diet on, 53, 265

Valance, Poor Thomas, 125

Vegetarian Diet and Quantity, 161

Vegetarians, Some Noted, 51, 161

Vegetarianism and Endurance, 162

Vegetable Food, 48, 51, 52, 72, 158, 161

Vegetables Spoiled by Cooking, How, 177

Vinegar Yeast in the Blood, a Cause of Consumption, 81, 82

Ventilation, 47, 48, 97, 236, 238, 239

Vickers, The Case of Mr., 75

Watermelons, A Stale Joke about, 191

for Bowel Troubles, 192

Water as a Medicine, 98, 100, 113, 190

Weakness from Hot Drinks, 251

White Flour, Concerning, 49

Worrying, Effects of, 85

Waves of Disease!, 9

Wheat-meal vs. “Entire Flour”, 184