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any judgment/* *' She wants to get there too soon," 

 etc. She was no comfort to anybody, no woman 

 could drive her, and few men cared to ride after her. I 

 put her at once on the two-meal plan, and gave her 

 ten to twenty miles' sharp drive daily. In a week 

 my wife, who is by no means anything of a horse- 

 woman, was driving Mollie everywhere in perfect 

 safety. In a few months this mare, like her prede- 

 cessor, was transformed completely from a fat to a 

 muscular animal. In her case the indigestion, caused 

 by over-frequent feeding, which made the other — and 

 which makes so many others, indeed — "lazy," had 

 the effect to keep her so irritated and nervous that 

 she was headstrong and not readily manageable. 

 We see these 



TWO PHASES OF DISEASE 



all about us in the case of human animals. A lazy man 

 is a sick man ; at least, his lack of energy is due to pos- 

 itive disorder. Whether he be fat, lean, or medium ; 

 a gourmand or a " poor feeder," his physical condition 

 is abnormal. If an obese gourmand, his whole vital 

 force may be necessary to digest his food and expel 

 the excess beyond what the cellular tissue can store 

 up in the form of fat. The lean glutton's organism 

 is taxed in like manner; while the poor tired dys- 

 peptic — who eats but little, and that without satis- 

 faction — suffers from faulty nutrition, because 7ione 

 of his food is well digested. The thin, wiry, " nerv- 

 ous '* man or woman, who never can bear to rest — 

 the human "puller" — suffers from a complication of 

 disorders, resulting from a body and brain poisoned 



