GENERAL HEALTH HINTS 717 



''Health is wealth" is a trite maxim, tlie truth of 

 which every one appreciates best after having suffered 

 from disease. Indeed, health is a most priceless treas- 

 ure. When deprived of it, we are willing to exchange 

 for it everything else we possess; yet when well, we 

 squander it ruthlessly, regardless of consequences. 



When a man has a bilious attack, and vomits bile, 

 he feels sure there is something the matter with his 

 liver ; whereas, instead, he has bile enough and to spare, 

 and all he needs is good hygiene, a proper dietary, and 

 plenty of water inside and outside. 



Pain stands as a lighthouse to warn navigators on 

 the sea of life whenever they are approaching the 

 shoals of overfed idleness, the rough breakers of neg- 

 lect and general disregard of nature's laws, or the 

 giddy whirlpool of passions stimulated and gratified. 



A PERSON whose constitution has once been thor- 

 oughly broken by any chronic disease, cannot expect 

 to become perfectly sound and well again. He may 

 enjoj^ excellent health with proper care, but will not 

 be able to endure hardships or irregularities as before. 



Quacks thrive upon the ignorance and gullibility of 

 the people. The only remedy for quackery lies in the 

 education of the people in those medical facts and 

 theories, which will lead them to see that there is a 

 scientific foundation for rational medical practice. 



Avoid sleeping in damp beds and cold bedrooms. A 

 person had a great deal better sit up by the kitchen 

 fire and doze in his chair, than commit himself to the 

 horrible embrace of cold, clammy sheets, and run the 

 risk of sowing the seeds of an incurable illness. 



A quaint old Dutch physician who flourished nearly 

 two centuries ago, had great faith in the mechanical 

 cure of disease. It was a favorite saying of his that 

 more patients would be cured by climbing a bitterwood 

 tree, than by drinking a disgusting decoction of its 

 leaves. 



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