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from the bean, without any admixture. Tea and 

 coffee I avoid as I do the doctors — that is, on 

 principle : — these drinks are potent and valuable 

 medicines when required, and as such I use 

 tlLem; but I trust never to need a doctor for 

 *' advice" or " medicine." 



I have never suffered from any but the most 

 trivial ailments — such as " colds ;" yet I have 

 been where smallpox, yellow fever, dyseptery, 

 and cholera have been raging. 



My bodily strength 1 think equal to that of 

 any robust man of the same stature and weight 

 Having passed beyond my fortieth year, I am 

 neither bald nor gray, but rather inclined to be 

 primitively hirsute, the comfort and convenience 

 whereof I thankfully acknowledge to nature. 



cay-hon ; but how disgusting it is to the poor patient ! Any 

 other oil may take its place ; and there is one, hen-oil, or 

 hehen-oil, which is quite scentless, and perhaps less costly than 

 that of the cod ; but even olive-oil will do. If the trace of 

 iodine in the cod-oil be important, which is most improbable, 

 it may be supplied by a fish-diet. Oil and alcohol are the 

 only remedies of consumption. Consumptive patients who 

 "drink" outlive those who are sober. The quadmmana, or 

 ape-tribe, especially those nearest to man, die of consumption 

 at the Zoological Gardens for want of attention to the re- 

 spiratory function : if they were dieted according to these 

 views, doubtless they would live in any climate. 



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