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PRENATAL CULTURE. 



What to Eat. 



Respiration. 



The Blood is 

 the Life. 



taken. (A little food well digested will nourish 

 the body much better than a large quantity partly 

 digested; moreover, undigested food is sure to 

 play havoc with the stomach, liver and kidneys.) 

 Avoid every thing of an irritating or stimulating 

 character; fermented or alcoholic drinks and 

 tobacco in all forms. Do not expect to cure dys- 

 pepsia, or kidney trouble while using tobacco. 

 Use very little pepper, mustard, vinegar, horse- 

 radish, hot sauces, cold-slaugh, concentrated 

 sweets, pastry, confectionery, butter, grease, fat, 

 pork meats, sausage and fried steaks. Subsist 

 mainly upon cereals, vegetables and fruits, using 

 meat once a day. Keep the bowels open by a diet 

 of whole wheat bread and plenty of ripe fruit. If 

 there is a tendency to constipation, drink, drink 

 abundantly of pure soft water before retiring 

 and during the night. Never use pills, drugs or 

 patent medicines for this trouble, a warm enema 

 is better." 



The respiratory power should be strong. If 

 weak in either parent it should be strengthened 

 before the inception of a new life. It is a fact 

 well known to recruiting surgeons, that a soldier's 

 power of endurance is determined largely by his 

 chest measurement. As men breathe so they live. 

 He who breathes most lives most, feels and en- 

 joys most, endures the longest and accomplishes 

 the most in life. 



The blood is the life. Two things are essential 

 for the formation of pure, rich blood : (i) whole- 

 some food well digested; (2) free oxygenation. 

 If the blood is pure and rich, then proper exercise 

 is all that is necessary for the development of 



