544 THE MOUNTAIN. 



One glance at the table of contents of the book will show 

 its connection with medical science. 



DIVERSITIES OF CONSTITUTION. 1. Temperament ; 2. Habit ; 3. Dia- 

 thesis. 



CHAP. I. OF DIET. 1. Digestion; 2. Food, (whole story of ali- 

 mentation;) 3. Quantity of Food; 4. Intervals between Meals; 



5. Conditions which strengthen or weaken the Digestive Powers ; 



6. Of Food at Different Ages ; 7. Social Relations of Food. 



CHAP. II. OF EXERCISE, (as Exercise of Muscles.) Exercise of 

 Boys ; Physical Education of Girls ; Exercise proper for Adults ; 

 Exercise of the Aged. 



CHAP. III. OF SLEEP. (Whole story as far as recorded.) 



CHAP. IV. OF BATHING. (Whole story, including Preservation of 

 Teeth.) 



CHAP. V. OF CLOTHING. 



CHAP. VI. OF AIR OR CLIMATE. 1. General Properties of the At- 

 mosphere; 2. Noxious Agencies of Air and Climate generally con- 

 sidered; 3. Malaria, (whole story;) 4. Climate suited to the Strumous 

 Diathesis. 



CHAP. VII. HEALTH OF MIND. (Habits of Mind favoring Health 

 of Body;) 1. Of Self-control; 2. Of Intellectual Culture and Occu- 

 pation. 



" This necessary initial achievement has been worthily 

 accomplished by the labors of physicians and surgeons. " 

 So much for an "art more important than medicine;" so 

 much for the confounding of words and the effort at mere 

 abstractions in science. 



Hear, also, the great Hufeland, at Jena, 1796, fifty-five 

 years before Mayo : " The life of man, physically considered, 

 is a peculiar chemico-animal operation; a phenomenon 

 effected by a concurrence of the united powers of nature 

 with matter in a continual state of change. This, like every 

 other physical operation, must have its defined laws, bound- 

 aries, and duration, so far as they depend on the sum of the 

 given powers and matter, their application, and many other 

 external as well as internal circumstances ; but, like every 

 other physical operation, it can be promoted or impeded, 

 accelerated or retarded. By laying down just principles re- 

 specting its essence and wants, and by attending to observa- 



