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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: How to Eat + A Cure for "Nerves" + +Author: Thomas Clark Hinkle + +Release Date: November 11, 2006 [EBook #19762] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HOW TO EAT *** + + + + +Produced by Roger Frank and the Online Distributed +Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + +</pre> + + +<h2>HOW TO EAT</h2> + +<h3>A CURE FOR "NERVES"</h3> + +<hr class='major' /> + +<p class="blockquot2">"Whosoever wishes to eat much must eat little." Cornaro, in saying +this, meant that if a man wished to eat for a great many days—that +is, desired a long life—he must eat only a little each day.</p> + +<hr class='major' /> + +<table width="450" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" summary="" border="1"> + <col style="width:100%;" /> + <tr> + <td align="center"> + <table width="90%" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" summary="" border="0"> + <col style="width:100%;" /> + <tr> + <td> + <p class='titleblock' style="font-size: 220%;margin-top:60px;">HOW TO EAT</p> + <p class='titleblock' style="font-size: 160%;margin-bottom:80px;">A CURE FOR "NERVES"</p> + <p class='titleblock' style="font-size: 80%;">By</p> + <p class='titleblock' style="font-size: 100%;">THOMAS CLARK HINKLE, M.D.</p> + </td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td> + <div class='figcenter' style='width: 125px; padding-top: 100px; padding-bottom: 60px;'> + <a name="illus-001" id="illus-001"></a> + <img src='images/illus-em1.png' alt='' title='' /><br /> + </div> + </td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td> + <p class='titleblock' style="font-size: 100%;">RAND M<sup>c</sup>NALLY & COMPANY</p> + <p class='titleblock' style="font-size: 100%;margin-bottom:60px;">CHICAGO NEW YORK</p> + </td> + </tr> + </table> + </td> + </tr> +</table> + +<hr class='major' /> + +<p class='center'> +<i>Copyright, 1921, by</i><br /> +<span class="smcap">Rand M<sup>c</sup>NALLY & Company</span> +</p> + +<div class='figcenter' style='width: 125px; padding-top: 60px;'> +<img src='images/illus-em2.png' alt='' title='' /> +</div> + +<hr class='major' /> + +<h2><a name="Contents" id="Contents"></a>Contents</h2> +<div class="smcap"> +<table border="0" width="600" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" summary="Contents"> +<col style="width:80%;" /> +<col style="width:10%;" /> +<tr><td align="left">I. WHERE THE TROUBLE LIES</td><td align="right"><a href="#I._WHERE_THE_TROUBLE_LIES">12</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">II. HOW TO OVERCOME THE TROUBLE</td><td align="right"><a href="#II._HOW_TO_OVERCOME_THE_TROUBLE">29</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">III. RIGHT AND WRONG DIET FOR NERVOUS PEOPLE</td><td align="right"><a href="#III._RIGHT_AND_WRONG_DIET_FOR_NERVOUS_PEOPLE">53</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">IV. VALUE OF OUTDOOR LIFE AND EXERCISE</td><td align="right"><a href="#IV._VALUE_OF_OUTDOOR_LIFE_AND_EXERCISE">77</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align="left">V. EFFECT OF RIGHT LIVING ON WORRY AND UNHAPPINESS</td><td align="right"><a href="#V._EFFECT_OF_RIGHT_LIVING_ON_WORRY_AND_UNHAPPINESS">107</a></td></tr> +</table> +</div> + +<hr class='major' /> + +<div class="blockquot2"><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_6" id="Page_6">6</a></span>"Nature, desirous to preserve man in good health as long as +possible, informs him herself how he is to act in time of illness; +for she immediately deprives him, when sick, of his appetite in +order that he may eat but little."</p> + +<p style='text-align:right;'>—<span class="smcap">Cornaro</span></p> +</div> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_7" id="Page_7">7</a></span></p> + +<hr class='major' /> + +<h2><a name="THE_INTRODUCTION" id="THE_INTRODUCTION"></a>THE INTRODUCTION</h2> + +<p>This author-physician's cure for "nerves" vividly recalls the simplicity +of method employed in the complete restoration to health of one of olden +time whose story has come ringing down the ages in the Book of Books. +Naaman, captain of the host of the king of Syria, a mighty man of valor +and honorable in the sight of all men, turned away in a rage when +Elisha, the prophet of the Most High, prescribed for his dread malady a +remedy so simple that it was despised in his eyes. But "his servants +came near and said ... 'If the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, +wouldest thou not have done it?'"</p> + +<p>In "How to Eat" the author offers the sufferer from "nerves" a remedy as +simple as that Elisha offered Naaman. He gives him an opportunity to +profit by his well-tested knowledge that overeating and <i>rapidity</i> in +eating are ruinous to health and shorten life.</p> + +<p>It is seldom that there emanates from the pen of a doctor a book which, +concerning any physical disorder, minimizes the efforts of the medical +practitioner. While this author-physician gives full credit to the +conscientious physician for the great service he is able to render in +all other spheres of his profession, he wholly denies the necessity for +medical care in cases of nervous breakdown, and discounts liberally the +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_8" id="Page_8">8</a></span>benefits to be derived from professional advice except in so far as the +doctor is the patient's counselor and dictator as to what and how and +how much he shall eat and drink, and the way he shall employ his time.</p> + +<p>Any discourse is valuable which incites a man having a marked tendency +to depressing, morbid ideas, to rid himself of them. Dr. Hinkle helps +the sufferer to gain that confidence and cheer which result from +knowledge of certain immunity from dreaded ills and positive assurance +of recovery by mere regulation of food or employment along the lines of +simple, everyday living.</p> + +<p>But that alone is not sufficient. It is made quite clear that no one +thing by itself will insure a cure of "nerves." The cure must come +through common sense exerted along several related avenues of endeavor. +No matter how steadfastly one may adhere to directions as to abstaining +from harmful food and injurious methods of partaking of those foods +which are beneficial, if he spends the larger portion of his time idly +rocking in a convenient arm chair, exerting neither body nor mind nor +will, that which might be gained by proper nutrition is largely +nullified by lack of physical exercise and mental activity.</p> + +<p>That this little book may serve as a spur to the bodily self-denial and +self-repression and the intellectual and spiritual uplift which make for +character-building, is the very evident goal of its writer. From +self-analysis and self-cure he<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_9" id="Page_9">9</a></span> has worked out a philosophy—a system or +<i>art</i>—by which those afflicted with nervous breakdown may be healed. +And by putting into print the result of his practical experiments in +diet and exercise he has broadened immeasurably the scope of his +helpfulness to all nervebound sufferers by placing within their reach +the simplest of measures by which release is secured from a condition +which wholly incapacitates for active service or even for quiet, +everyday usefulness.</p> + +<p>It is because the things Dr. Hinkle advises are so commonplace, and +because the doing of them day after day, year in and year out, is so +monotonous, that people will be tempted to disregard or make light of +their helpfulness. But the commonplace things which make up life are all +important, as Susan Coolidge has so aptly expressed in these lines which +fittingly illustrate the author's thought:</p> + +<p style='margin-left:2em;'> +"The commonplace sun in the commonplace sky<br /> +Makes up the commonplace day.<br /> +The moon and the stars are commonplace things,<br /> +And the flower that blooms and the bird that sings;<br /> +But dark were the world, and sad our lot<br /> +If the flowers failed, and the sun shone not;<br /> +And God, who studies each separate soul,<br /> +Out of commonplace lives makes his beautiful whole."<br /> +</p> + +<p>It therefore behooves the sufferer from "nerves" and that great host of +others who are in danger of a nervous breakdown if they do not speedily +mend their ways of eating and living, to heed the kindly<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_10" id="Page_10">10</a></span> admonitions +and follow the precepts of this author who practices what he preaches. +By persistently doing commonplace things in the most commonplace way, +keeping ever in mind the great objects to be attained thereby—good +health, good cheer, and increased usefulness throughout a long life—the +reader of this little treatise will find it worth many, many times its +size, weight, and bulk. And heeding the author's admonition, "Go thou +and do likewise," he will not shorten his life or lose it altogether in +fruitless quests for the strength and nerve vigor which constantly elude +him because of lack of self-control and failure to persist in the simple +but efficacious measures of relief here outlined.</p> + +<p style='text-align:right;'>M. F. S. +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_11" id="Page_11">11</a></span></p> + +<hr class="major" /> +<div style='margin: auto; text-align: center; padding-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 1em;'> +<a name="I._WHERE_THE_TROUBLE_LIES" id="I._WHERE_THE_TROUBLE_LIES"></a> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_12" id="Page_12">12</a></span> +<h2>I. WHERE THE TROUBLE LIES</h2> +</div> + +<div class="blockquot2"><p>"What we leave after making a hearty meal does us more good than +what we have eaten."</p> + +<p style='text-align:right;'>—<span class="smcap">Cornaro</span></p> +</div> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_13" id="Page_13">13</a></span></p> + +<hr class="major" /> + +<h2>HOW TO EAT</h2> + +<h3>A CURE FOR "NERVES"</h3> + +<h3>I. WHERE THE TROUBLE LIES</h3> + +<p>It is now over twenty years since I had my first nervous breakdown. +About ten years later I had another, far worse than the first one. The +first lasted six months; the second a little more than two and one half +years. Doubtless if I had not in the strangest way in the world found +out how to cure myself it would have lasted until now, unless death in +the meantime had come to my relief. But right here I want to say that if +you are looking for some new or miraculous treatment for such +unfortunate people you might as well close the book now, for you will be +disappointed. There is a cure for "nerves" but the cure is as old as the +world. The trouble with poor deluded mortals—doctors included—is, we<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_14" id="Page_14">14</a></span> +are constantly looking for a miracle to cure us, but if we look back on +all the real cures that we have ever heard about, we shall find they +were as simple as the sun or the rain. And in the name of common sense +let me ask: what is the difference <i>how</i> we are cured if we <i>are</i> cured +and are <i>happy</i> as a result of it? Isn't that enough? Most certainly it +is.</p> + +<p>And now, as we journey along through the pages of this book, I want you +to know that these words have been written by one who has nothing to +offer you except human experience. As we proceed you will notice that +every statement is tremendously positive. When a man has been through +this literal hell of "nerves" he knows all about it and what can be done +for it. And so when I tell you the things you must do to get well and +<i>stay well</i>, I want you to understand that I know. There is absolutely +no theory to be found in these pages. If you put<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_15" id="Page_15">15</a></span> your finger in the +fire you burn it. You don't have to take your finger out of the fire, +call in a lot of learned gentlemen and say to them: "Now tell me your +candid opinion about my finger. Is it burned or is it not?"</p> + +<p>And I am just as positive about my cure of "nerves" as you could be that +fire burned your finger. That brings me to what I want to say about the +so-called "rest cures" at the sanitariums. It is a well-known fact that +if a case of "nerves" is pronounced cured at a sanitarium the cure is +only temporary. Sooner or later every one of these patients goes down +hill again.</p> + +<p>And remember I am talking about people who have nervous breakdowns +THROUGH NO FAULT OF THEIR OWN. I have no time to spare for the person +who has brought on his own trouble. I am chiefly concerned with that +host of children in America—and there is a host, I am sorry<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_16" id="Page_16">16</a></span> to +say—born of what I choose to call "pre-nervous" parents. The girls of +such parents frequently break down in high school. And many of the +finest boys that I know have this dreadful "thing" fastened firmly upon +them just at the very beginning of their lifework.</p> + +<p>You may think I am a little vehement, but to me one of the most damnable +and disgusting things in the world is that the medical profession +remains so ignorant concerning the <i>real cure</i> for such cases. I believe +the late Sir William Osler was the greatest physician of his generation. +He was not only a man of talent, he was a genius, and his knowledge of +medicine almost passes understanding. Yet Osler himself was as much in +the dark concerning the <i>real</i> cure for so-called <i>neurasthenia</i> as the +physicians who read his works on practice. If one wants to find out how +ignorant the whole profession is on the subject of a permanent cure, +let<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_17" id="Page_17">17</a></span> the thing get hold of him, and then let him make the rounds of the +physicians, follow out their advice, and see where he comes out!</p> + +<p>I have said that even the sanitariums of this country—and for that +matter I might have said of any other country—do not <i>permanently cure</i> +these people. I have ample proof of this statement. I have met these +people everywhere and no doubt you have, too. Quite recently the subject +was brought up anew to me. I had written an article on the subject for +one of the magazines, a magazine having a large circulation. In a very +short time my mail was literally flooded with letters. Every incoming +mail brought great numbers of them. They came from physicians of the +regular school, and from physicians of many other schools, too. I won't +mention any of them, for this is a treatise on a dreadful affliction and +how one may get rid of it; it is not intended as a criticism of anyone.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_18" id="Page_18">18</a></span> +I have no desire to criticize and I haven't time. I am stating facts +interwoven with my own life. If the cure is real, the people will find +it out after they have tried it; if it is not, they will also find that +out. In fact, it's exactly as Gamaliel, the teacher of Paul, said to the +men of Israel when they would have slain the apostles for teaching +Christ's sayings, "Refrain from these men and let them alone: for if +this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to naught: but if it +be of God, ye cannot overthrow it." And it's exactly the same way with +this healing art. The very fact that physicians of all schools of +medicine—physicians who were sufferers from "nerves"—wrote me, shows +plainly that they could not heal themselves. I have many letters from +people who have been in sanitariums for years and who still have +"nerves." The sanitariums do some people a lot of good, but they cannot +remove the <i>cause</i> of nervousness. I am certain that the very<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_19" id="Page_19">19</a></span> best rest +cure for women is the one Dr. Weir Mitchell first used. But such women +are sure to go down again and again and still again if that is <i>all</i> +that is done for them.</p> + +<p>Now frankly, if Christian Science could cure such cases and make them +<i>stay</i> cured I should want a practitioner of this cult to treat them. +But Christian Science simply cannot cure them because the underlying +cause of this trouble is <i>physical</i>, not <i>mental</i>. In other words, the +mind becomes ill because the body is made ill by certain poisons, and +the nature of the disease is so peculiar that most of these miserable +sufferers will not even try a thing unless some one brings them +overwhelming evidence of its having wrought a cure. Or, if they do try +it, they usually quit the treatment before nature has had time to do her +work and set their bodies right.</p> + +<p>I have the most profound sympathy for such people. I want to speak +directly<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_20" id="Page_20">20</a></span> to them. That is the task that I have set myself in this work. +I want to talk directly to those of you who are sufferers from "nerves." +I see you in every state, in every city, in every village, and +throughout the farming districts of this country. I have received +letters from many farmers who are suffering with this "thing." To them +let me say, I know just how you feel, and from the very bottom of my +heart I pity you. I know the horrible suffering of each one of you. I +don't care what your ambition has been or is. I don't care what your +situation in life may be. I don't care how rich or how poor you are. I +don't care how much trouble you have had, or the nature of it. I want +you to know these words are being written by one who knows more about +your sufferings than you can imagine. I want you to believe this, +because it is true. If you have longed and prayed for death, remember +that the one who is writing<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_21" id="Page_21">21</a></span> these words also has longed and prayed for +death. But one thing you must be sure to remember: while you are waiting +and trying to get well you must have <i>patience</i>.</p> + +<p>I recollect one beautiful day in early spring when traveling in Nebraska +I passed a little cemetery. How sweet and restful the place seemed, and +as I looked out over those little white stones I prayed silently that +the great God who made me would not hold me much longer on earth, that +He would soon grant me the rest and peace which I believed was to be +found only in death and the grave. But <i>remember this</i>: In those dark +days never for a moment did I think of taking my own life! These words +may reach some one who has had such a thought. If so, I say to you that +to take one's life is the most cowardly thing a human being can do. This +is the only place where I feel like being severe with you people. Shame +on the man or woman<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_22" id="Page_22">22</a></span> who will not go on to the end fighting honorably! +And now if you have ever given thought to such a thing, blot it from +your mind forever. I can see how these miserable people might long for +death, as I did. But no matter how we may long for release through +death, the God of nature must be the judge of our time of going.</p> + +<p>Now this brings me to what I want to say about such sufferers going +insane. Believe me, they never do! Remember this always. You won't +become insane. You couldn't if you tried! In letter after letter among +the flood of them I have had from all over this country and Canada, I +read how the poor sufferer feared he or she might be going insane. I +know, poor souls, just how you feel. That feeling is, I think, the most +dreadful of all things connected with "nerves." I suffered from it for +years. It is a dreadful feeling, but there is not the least bit of +danger of such a thing happening to you. You will <i>not</i> go<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_23" id="Page_23">23</a></span> insane. Such +persons can't. Do you really get me? Such persons cannot go insane. This +disease is nothing but what we call a functional nervous trouble. And so +forget about the danger of insanity for all time. You can be cured, but +you will make your return to health just that much slower by harboring +this fear. And it would be simply foolish for you to go on thinking it +possible after I—let me say it again—after I have told you that it +cannot happen. For the value of this treatise lies in the "I." Its value +is just like that of the treatise by Cornaro. He lived it. And so +likewise have I lived it. I have been laid low with this malady. I have +staggered in black despair with staring eyes and bleeding feet and +crying soul along this road strewn with thorns and stones. I know what +it is to lie awake all night and cry like a baby, with none to know and +none to tell me what to do. I know what it is to be tremendously<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_24" id="Page_24">24</a></span> +ambitious. Ambition! Ambition! Ah, God of Heaven! How a poor soul +suffers who beyond everything else, craves to be able to do something +big in this world because he knows he should, yet is held down by this +dreadful thing, "nerves!" And how little, how unspeakably little, do +physicians, even the greatest of them, know, actually know, how we +suffer, unless indeed there be one in whose own body the fiend has sunk +deep its talons.</p> + +<p>After I had my first breakdown I made up my mind to study medicine +because something told me that I was one of those "peculiar" people who +just <i>think</i> there is something the matter with them. Is it not strange +that with all the advance that has been made in general medicine, little +or nothing has been done for the relief of the people born with this +curse hanging over them?</p> + +<p>I wish this book could be put into the hands of every nervous parent +for, think<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_25" id="Page_25">25</a></span> as you may, all nervous parents beget nervous children. But +does it follow that such children should have a nervous breakdown almost +before they are out of their teens? No, decidedly not; and what is more, +they never should and never would break down, if they had proper food.</p> + +<p>I look back with horror on the many nights of my childhood when I +suffered with "night terrors." And right here let me say: no child will +<i>ever have night terrors</i> if he is given just what he should eat, and is +kept from overeating. And now a few words about the <i>first</i> great point +concerning the prevention as well as the cure of "nerves."</p> + +<p>Nervous people, and many others as well, eat too much. That, you say, is +nothing new. But that is just where the dreadful wrong begins; and why +there has been tragedy after tragedy, and why even while this is being +written there will be many more tragedies. You will hear<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_26" id="Page_26">26</a></span> lecturers +say—I myself have said it, and to large audiences: "You people eat too +much." But if that's all that is said, people straightway go away and +say: "Oh, yes, he's right, of course. We all eat too much." And there it +ends. Until recently people did not know—most of them don't know +yet—that each day they are actually bringing the grave nearer by +overeating.</p> + +<p>Not long ago the great life insurance companies of this country held a +notable convention in the city of New York. Now after everything had +been said and done, after every phase of life insurance had been +discussed, what do you suppose was the great outstanding statement from +that remarkable body of men who know more about why people die than any +other body of people on earth? It was this: "The average American <i>man +or woman</i> dies at the age of 43 because he eats what he wants to eat +rather than what he should<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_27" id="Page_27">27</a></span> eat." That means, of course, that +practically all Americans overeat. They are all like the child who says, +"I'm not hungry for bread and butter. I'm hungry for cake." And I find +that most of these poor deluded nervous sufferers eat what they want +under the supposition that it is good for them because they crave it. I +myself used to do so. I would eat candy by the pound. And it is odd but +quite true that nervous people crave the very things that hurt them +most. But there is no more sense in eating what you crave because you +crave it than there is in the man who is addicted to alcohol, drinking +alcohol because he craves it. I once used tobacco; I craved it, but I +did not need it just because I craved it. It is true the body naturally +needs some fats, some carbohydrates; in fact, a balanced ration, as we +shall see later. But I want to make it mighty plain here that never was +there a greater error than that of supposing you<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_28" id="Page_28">28</a></span> need chocolates or +sweets just because you crave them. And you don't need to overeat, and +keep on doing it, just because you must eat.</p> + +<hr class="major" /> +<div style='margin: auto; text-align: center; padding-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 1em;'> +<a name="II._HOW_TO_OVERCOME_THE_TROUBLE" id="II._HOW_TO_OVERCOME_THE_TROUBLE"></a> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_29" id="Page_29">29</a></span> +<h2>II. HOW TO OVERCOME THE TROUBLE</h2> +</div> + +<div class="blockquot2"><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_30" id="Page_30">30</a></span>"He who pursues a regular course of life need not be apprehensive +of illness, as he who has guarded against the cause need not be +afraid of the effect."</p> + +<p style='text-align:right;'>—<span class="smcap">Cornaro</span></p> +</div> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_31" id="Page_31">31</a></span></p> + +<hr class="major" /> + +<h3>II. HOW TO OVERCOME THE TROUBLE</h3> + +<p>We have now come to the second step in the cure of "nerves"—eating the +right food in the right way. You must chew all food until it is of the +consistency of cream, and you must also sip all liquids slowly. And now, +as you read these things that I have set down, I want you to remember +this: doing any one thing—and doing that alone—will not cure this +malady. No, it is doing a number of things at the right time. I know +this is true because I have tried it. For a time I chewed my food to a +cream, but that was the only thing I did in an endeavor to get well. I +was doing none of the other things that are absolutely necessary for a +cure. This is one great trouble with all such people. They will<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_32" id="Page_32">32</a></span> +Fletcherize for a time and then say there is nothing to that because it +does not cure them. Well, as I've said, that alone will not, and I want +to dwell at length on this because nobody knows as well as I do, what +harm such a belief does the nervous sufferer.</p> + +<p>Trying out Fletcherizing alone, which I say must be done together with +other things if you want to get well and stay well, is like taking the +handle of an axe and going out into the woods to cut down a tree. Now +with Fletcherizing you have a perfectly good handle, but you know very +well that you can't cut a tree down with only an axe handle. But that is +not the fault of the handle. The fault is obviously your own. Now +suppose you get the axe and fit the handle to it. You can then cut the +tree down if you work hard enough at the task. Again, suppose you cut +the tree half way through and quit. Will the axe keep on until the work +is done?<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_33" id="Page_33">33</a></span> You know it will not, and you very well know if you wish to be +cured you must keep on doing your part of the work or dieting will be of +no value whatever to you. Now suppose a man comes along and tells you +that the axe you have is no good and therefore it is no use for you to +keep on trying to use it. That is exactly what some physicians still say +about Fletcherizing.</p> + +<p>But you say, "I must cut this tree down. Nobody will do it for me; how +shall I get it down? Can you give me an axe that will cut it down?"</p> + +<p>"Oh, no," he replies, "but anyway there's no use fooling with that one."</p> + +<p>Then, if you are determined to do the work, you say, "I have to cut the +tree down. You have no other axe to offer me, so I'm going to try the +one I have." And you go ahead and cut down the tree. Then just as you +have finished, the man comes your way again, and in great delight<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_34" id="Page_34">34</a></span> you +call out to him: "Come and see! I cut this tree down with the axe you +said was no good!"</p> + +<p>The man comes over to you and says, "Where's the tree? I don't see it!"</p> + +<p>You are astonished and you tell him, "There it lies on the ground right +before your eyes! Can't you see it?"</p> + +<p>But he turns and walks away saying: "There is no tree there; it is all +in your mind."</p> + +<p>This is exactly what people with "nerves" have been told again and again +by physicians, by relatives, and by most other people who have never had +"nerves."</p> + +<p>I tell you these things so that when you begin to eat sparingly and chew +your food to a cream you may fortify yourself against well-meaning but +mistaken friends and relatives. And, oddly enough, it does seem that the +individual with "nerves" has more friends and relatives than any other +person in the world.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_35" id="Page_35">35</a></span></p> + +<p>Remember you must not only chew your food to the consistency of cream +for one or two months, you must make this practice a lifelong habit. If +you cannot take time to eat a meal in this way, you had much better go +hungry. To people who travel and must frequently take their meals in +railroad eating houses, I would say, get some bread and butter +sandwiches and eat them slowly while on the train. There is always a +chance to secure all you need to eat, too. You may not always be able to +sit an hour at the table—the time we should give to a meal if we eat as +we should. I know many object to this rule on the ground that if we +followed it we should get nothing else done. But that is nonsense. Did +not the Master of us all say, "Are there not twelve hours in the day?" +Then can we not devote three of the twelve to our food? If we have nine +hours in which we are at our highest efficiency, is it not good sense, +if we eat<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_36" id="Page_36">36</a></span> three meals a day, to give three hours to these meals? There +is only one sane answer to the question; we should take an hour for a +meal.</p> + +<p>Every now and then some magazine writer will state that the chewing of +food to a cream does not help anybody. He will tell you that you can +swallow your food any old way and it will not hurt you in the least. In +fact, I actually saw an article in one of our leading periodicals +containing just such statements. We should, I suppose, have only pity +for an editor who would give space to such stuff, and should also pity +the poor wretch who by writing it is striving to attain notoriety. At +any rate there is one excellent thing about such lies, they do harm for +only a little while. When people find out that a thing is harmful to +them, they usually quit it, no matter how many notoriety seekers are +urging and encouraging them to keep on.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_37" id="Page_37">37</a></span></p> + +<p>Usually the sufferer with "nerves" is the only one in the household who +will eat sparingly and chew his food slowly. But now and then I find an +intelligent, sympathetic man who will do so because it is helpful to his +wife. He sympathizes with her infirmity, and with fine self-denial eats +as she does. And note this: he usually derives benefit from so doing. +Time after time when I have put a nervous woman under this regimen, and +then her husband elected to go along with her, I have had the man come +to me and say: "Well, doctor, I declare I'm feeling a whole lot better +myself! I don't get sleepy any more during the daytime, and that pain I +used to have in the region of my liver is gone!" And so on and on.</p> + +<p>The fact is just this: anybody who follows the rules that I learned to +apply in my own case cannot fail to be benefited. And although those not +inclined to "nerves" can eat a greater variety of food,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_38" id="Page_38">38</a></span> it's greatly to +be desired when there is a nervous person in a household of grownups +that all other members of the family enter together into this thing. It +could not fail to help every one of them. To be truthful, in the +beginning you will all find it mighty hard to persist in chewing all +your food to a cream. Mouthful after mouthful of food will get away from +you when you are not thinking. This just goes to show how we are in the +habit of bolting our food. At first people who Fletcherize or chew their +food perfectly, usually lose weight. I most certainly did. I lost about +twenty pounds because of it, but I was so well and felt so good I could +almost have jumped over the North Star.</p> + +<p>I know that, unfortunately, a lot of people with "nerves" have started +to chew their food carefully and to eat sparingly, but the minute they +found themselves losing weight they were frightened and quit. They went +on carrying that ten<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_39" id="Page_39">39</a></span> or twenty or thirty pounds of flesh and all the +time suffering the tortures of the damned just in order that they might +keep it. But of what benefit are a certain number of extra pounds of +flesh and how can a man explain such a senseless action?</p> + +<p>The astonishing thing is that many physicians are willing to condemn a +cure just as soon as they find the patient has lost a pound of beef. But +as I said before, the primary mission of man in this world is not to +raise beef. I do not find fault with the raising of beef in the feeding +yards, but if beef must be raised let us confine the industry to the +cattle pens and stock yards. Let us not worship it to the degree that we +would rather live in hell than part with a few extra pounds that +overload our own bodies.</p> + +<p>Now just here I want it distinctly understood, as I have said before, +that this text is primarily for <i>functional nervous cases</i>. Tubercular +people belong to an<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_40" id="Page_40">40</a></span> entirely different class. They should live out of +doors day and night and should, if possible, be treated at outdoor +institutions established for such cases. But the individual with +"nerves" will find what he needs and will find it abundantly if he has +enough determination to take hold of it and keep at it.</p> + +<p>On the part of many it will take all the determination they have to chew +their food to a cream and always eat sparingly. In regard to the amount +of food taken, judgment must of course be used. We all know that it is +possible to eat too little. But you should always quit eating while you +still feel you would like a little more. I know of no better guide than +this to offer you. But I have observed that the person who eats slowly +and chews his food to a cream never eats as much food as he would if he +bolted it. It is just like letting a thirsty horse drink water. I +remember, as a boy on the farm, when I led a<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_41" id="Page_41">41</a></span> very thirsty horse from +the field to the water tank how rapidly he would swallow. If my father +were with me, after the horse had drunk a while he would say, "Make him +hold his head up." Frequently when I did so the horse would draw a long +breath and drink no more. Had he gone right on drinking, as a thirsty +horse will if you permit him to do so, he might have drunk twice as much +as was good for him. And that's the way people eat. As a result the +horse that drinks and drinks and drinks when he is very thirsty +sometimes dies in a few hours. I have seen a horse die from drinking too +much water and I have also seen people die in a few hours after a +terrible gorge that they could not get rid of. Do you know that most +nervous people have a way of sitting down to the table and eating until +they are literally full? If you could take out the stomach of such a +person and look at it, the sight would frighten you. And with good +reason. For as a result of<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_42" id="Page_42">42</a></span> this habit many nervous people have dilated +stomachs. But if they would correct their manner of eating there is +usually enough tone in the muscular walls of the stomach to get it back +to normal. I marvel again and again over how miraculously nature +restores herself even after she has been terribly abused, if only she is +given a chance.</p> + +<p>I am certain that all human beings would be more efficient if they +chewed all solid food to a cream and sipped all liquids slowly. The late +Professor William James, the great Harvard psychologist, testified to +the value of such a habit, as did a number of other distinguished +Harvard professors. I regret that some physicians still hold out in +their belief that it does no good although the evidence stands out as +clearly before them as a tree along the roadside. But they are like the +physician who some years ago declared that bathing was bad for people. I +recall how hard we all bore down<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_43" id="Page_43">43</a></span> upon him, as he richly deserved, and +how the Journal of the American Medical Association printed a short poem +ridiculing him. I am quite certain that the members of the Regular +school of medicine have progressed infinitely farther toward the cure of +diseases than members of all the other schools combined. I do not say +this simply because I happen to be a physician of the Regular school; I +say it because a candid survey of what has been accomplished, and by +whom, proves it. But as to diet, we have done little compared with what +we should do. We have made no greater progress along this line because +so many of us have been blinded by prejudice—the curse of the human +race.</p> + +<p>With regard to chewing all food to a cream, most modern writers on +dietetics, while acknowledging that this super-mastication is useful, +maintain that it does not increase the value of the food. But they err +greatly in this, as we can prove in a<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_44" id="Page_44">44</a></span> very few words: If a certain +amount of proteins, fats, and carbohydrates is bolted by a nervous man +suffering from a breakdown, it will cause intestinal toxemia as a result +of the bolted food, but if he chews the food to a cream it will be +digested in a normal manner and will not cause gas in the stomach or +intestines. The proper amount of food is absorbed and nourishes the man +as it should. Now did not the thorough mastication of that food increase +the value of the proteins, fats, and carbohydrates? The thing is a +self-evident fact. In the first case a man takes food which quickly +turns to a loathsome poison. In the second instance the same kind of +food is so thoroughly mixed with the ptyalin in the saliva that whatever +is eaten becomes of value as protein or fat or some other food element.</p> + +<p>After many years of sad experience with this malady we call "nerves" I +am convinced that the reason why people have this<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_45" id="Page_45">45</a></span> disease is because +they are literally "food drunk." I have treated men who had been on an +alcohol debauch and I know how terribly depressed they are after such a +spree is over. It is exactly the same way with the pre-nervous people +that break down. They sit down to a big meal and overeat. There is a +temporary stimulus, just as in the case of the person who takes +intoxicants, followed by that terrible mental depression that all who +have suffered from "nerves" know. And because the individual with the +"nerves" is overeating two or three times each day, he stays drunk with +the poisons that form in his stomach and intestines. Such people +over-assimilate the poisonous products of proteins, especially of +sugars. Of course this may seem oddly stated because we would not want +any absorption of the poisons in the intestines, but it is probable that +nature can and does take care of a little of it there in the healthy +individual.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_46" id="Page_46">46</a></span></p> + +<p>It is perfectly absurd to say, as some physicians still continue to say, +that no poisonous matter is ever absorbed in the intestinal tract. Give +a child something that causes intestinal indigestion and see how quickly +he has a rise in temperature. This fever is the direct result of poisons +absorbed in the intestines. In the case of the nervous adult, however, +this poison does not as often result in fever as it does in a horrible +mental depression and a complete inability to perform any sort of work.</p> + +<p>And so there seems no question but that this terrible malady we call +"nerves," or a nervous breakdown in any of its many forms, is in a +majority of cases the result of the wrong eating habits of the +individual. The chewing of all food to a cream will go far toward curing +the trouble, but in most cases this alone will not effect a cure. It +would not have done so in my own case, although I did see much +improvement as a result of that practice alone.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_47" id="Page_47">47</a></span></p> + +<p>And here I want to say this: There are many who say they cannot eat acid +fruits because of the distress they cause. Now if such people would +always chew an apple, a pear, or other fruit to a cream, no distress +would result from eating fresh fruit. But such people must follow in +detail the diet I shall give farther on.</p> + +<p>Now, facts cannot be stated too strongly. It is certain acid fruits will +cause distress if you do not chew them to a cream. I would swell up like +a toad if I ate only one apple hurriedly. I don't dare think what might +happen to me if I ate three or four in that way. I might possibly find +myself transformed into a human balloon and float away into space. But I +don't eat apples that way—not now. Some who read these pages may think +it very strange, yet it is quite true that there really are persons +suffering with "nerves" who have not gumption enough to follow this +simple rule of chewing all food to a cream. I despair<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_48" id="Page_48">48</a></span> of ever helping +those people. They still continue to dispose of a big meal in fifteen +minutes, and then insist they have chewed all their food carefully. I +have had that thing happen right before my own eyes. Then think of their +complaining that they cannot eat apples because they cause so much gas +in the stomach!</p> + +<p>One reason why a large number of such people are troubled with gas, even +though they do chew their food to a cream, is because they immediately +follow a meal with one or two cups of tea or coffee. Now please remember +this: An individual afflicted with "nerves" has no business drinking +either tea or coffee. He should let them both alone. Plain hot water is +the very best drink in the world for a nervous person. If you want a +drink after your meal drink a cup of plain hot water. And you should +also drink a cup of hot water half an hour before breakfast. If you do +not care for breakfast, and feel you do<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_49" id="Page_49">49</a></span> not need this meal, drink the +hot water anyway. The victim of "nerves" should never drink during the +meal but after it, if he must drink anything at all. He should also +drink a pint or more of cold water between meals every day.</p> + +<p>Now, another thing with regard to chewing all solid food to a cream. It +has been proved over and over again in my own case and in that of many +others, that in doing this the brain and muscles are both made stronger +and keener for work, that those who chew their food in this way have +much greater endurance, both mental and physical, than those who do not.</p> + +<p>Today if I should relax my vigilance in respect to chewing my food I +should soon go down again. But with this aid, which I now so easily +employ, combined with exactly the right things to eat, I find I need +have no fear. It has been ten years since my last breakdown and in that +interval I have done the very best work and by<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_50" id="Page_50">50</a></span> far the hardest brain +work of a lifetime. I do not believe people break down from overwork. +You may think that a perfectly absurd statement. But I have good grounds +upon which to base my belief. If nervous people would eat sparingly and +chew their food to a cream, eating the foods I shall mention later on, I +am confident they would rarely, if ever, break down.</p> + +<p>It is certain that in the last ten years, with the greatest mental +strain on me, I should have gone down again, and perhaps more than once, +if I had not found what caused "nerves" and how to prevent it. In the +meantime I have written ten or more books, and every writer, at least, +knows what a nerve-racking profession writing is. In addition to all +this mental labor I have gone right ahead with my medical practice. +Surely there is balm in this particular Gilead.</p> + +<p>But if you will not chew your food to a cream you need not expect to win +the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_51" id="Page_51">51</a></span> entire reward. And you must do this not only one day or one week or +one month or one year, but all the days, weeks, months, and years that +you may live. And, alas! I know only too well all the trouble +well-meaning but deluded people who sit at the table with a nervous +individual will make him when they discover how much time he is taking +to chew his food. At first, because of the length of time I spent at a +meal, such people thought I must be eating as much as a horse. But, here +and there, for I was in many places, when people found out what I was +doing, they would only courteously deride me for being so gullible about +what they termed fads.</p> + +<p>We are all well aware that the vast majority of Americans do not chew +their food to a cream or anything like it. And there are those, +therefore, who advance as an argument that because the majority do not +there must be something wrong with the minority who do. Well, let us +follow<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_52" id="Page_52">52</a></span> this out a little: Not so many hundred years ago everybody +believed the world was <i>flat</i>. But their theory did not make it flat. +And so, even though thousands of people who crowd our eating houses do +bolt their food, that does not prove there is no danger in the practice. +And they who do it are digging their graves with their teeth.</p> + +<p><i>Chew your food!</i></p> + +<hr class="major" /> +<div style='margin: auto; text-align: center; padding-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 1em;'> +<a name="III._RIGHT_AND_WRONG_DIET_FOR_NERVOUS_PEOPLE" id="III._RIGHT_AND_WRONG_DIET_FOR_NERVOUS_PEOPLE"></a> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_53" id="Page_53">53</a></span> +<h2>III. RIGHT AND WRONG DIET FOR NERVOUS PEOPLE</h2> +</div> + +<div class="blockquot2"><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_54" id="Page_54">54</a></span>"He who leads a sober and regular life, and commits no excess in +his diet, can suffer but little from disorders of any kind."</p> + +<p style='text-align:right;'>—<span class="smcap">Cornaro</span></p> +</div> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_55" id="Page_55">55</a></span></p> +<hr class="major" /> +<h3>III. RIGHT AND WRONG DIET FOR NERVOUS PEOPLE</h3> + +<p>People who are the offspring of nervous parents and who have had a +nervous breakdown should not eat commercial sugar, eggs, or animal food +of any kind whatever. These statements may seem wholly unimportant to +some people, but I realize what a tremendous bomb I throw into the camps +of others when they read them. You see, for centuries people have +believed meat and eggs to be the best of all foods; so when I make a +statement like the foregoing, the effect is not unlike that which +followed Columbus' statement that no matter what people believed, the +fact was that the earth was round, not flat. From the very beginning it +has not made a single bit of difference as to what physicians or<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_56" id="Page_56">56</a></span> +anybody else thought; facts count. And no matter what we may think or +how long we have thought it, facts go right on being facts just the +same.</p> + +<p>Sometimes, even after twenty years' experience, about once in two or +three months—because there is nothing else at hand—I find myself +eating a small bit of meat. This usually happens when I am on a lecture +tour. But if I eat only a small slice of bacon at the evening meal I +dream bad dreams and the next morning feel drowsy, heavy, and sluggish. +Animal foods as well as eggs and commercial sugar poison all those born +of nervous parents. I have proved the truth of this by my own case and +by several years' observation of other cases.</p> + +<p>Do your children have "night terrors"? You answer, yes. Well, let me +tell you how to stop these horrors in the little ones. If you give them +meat—and remember you should never give them pork—let<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_57" id="Page_57">57</a></span> them have a +very small piece at noon, never at night. And they should never be +permitted to have it for breakfast. Give the child his one small bit of +meat at noon. For the evening meal give him some cereal with milk or +cream, but no sugar. Give him all he wants of this special dish, but +nothing else at that meal, and you will find his "night terrors" and +moaning will cease.</p> + +<p>I look back on most of the nights of my childhood with horror, for until +I became a man I talked in my sleep and had the most horrible dreams. I +used also to get up in my sleep and walk about the room. My parents were +well aware of the fact that all of their eight children were poor +sleepers, and of them all I was by far the worst. And, although it was +innocently done, the food they were giving us was poisoning us. You +don't need to think that in order to take poison you must have +strychnine or arsenic. No, indeed you don't. We<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_58" id="Page_58">58</a></span> were fed exactly as +hundreds and thousands of poor little ones are being fed now as this is +being written. We were fed on meat, eggs, and fats, and when we became +ill, friends round about us thought they were doing something real kind +when they sent in a nice piece of fried rabbit or some celebrated golden +brown fried chicken. But we vomited at the sight of the food—which was +really our salvation.</p> + +<p>I have two boys of my own. The elder, a sturdy chap not yet ten years of +age, has to have clothes for a fourteen-year-old boy, and he is much +stronger than any boy of his age he has ever met. The younger boy is now +seven and his physical development is wonderful for a child of that age. +Now these boys hardly know what an egg is. They never eat one. As to +meat, I am certain that since they were born they have not eaten it on +an average of once a week. They have eaten a little, but you will admit +that eating meat not<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_59" id="Page_59">59</a></span> more than once a week, and often going weeks +without a bit of it, certainly is eating very little. There have been +times when they have not seen meat for three months.</p> + +<p>Now, I don't eat as I do and have my children eat as they do just for a +fad. I think nothing is more stupid and silly than for people to do +certain things just because somebody else does them. We should all have +good sound reasons for our actions in this world. We should all try our +very best to use sound common sense. That's why I say that people who +are the offspring of nervous parents should not eat animal food of any +kind after they are twenty-one, and they should never at any time eat +eggs. It would be far better for them if they did not eat commercial +sugar. But I do admit that when some of these people get well by +dieting, they are able to eat sparingly of all these things and still +keep well. But some people can never eat them and I am one of the +number.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_60" id="Page_60">60</a></span></p> + +<p>I remember one summer about two years ago I was on a lecture tour for a +Chautauqua Bureau, and it seemed that surely I got into the very worst +eating places that summer that I ever had in my life. For three or four +days I ate only eggs, as they seemed to be about the only food I could +get besides bread and butter. At the end of the third day—I remember +the time very well—when night came I could not sleep, and just as when +I had one of my nervous breakdowns, that old feeling of inexpressible +gloom began to settle over me. I knew instantly the cause of it, because +twice before when I had purposely experimented with eating eggs I had +had similar experiences. I immediately took a heavy cathartic and after +having thoroughly rid myself of the poison I again slept well.</p> + +<p>But I am not alone in this fight against the use of eggs for nervous +people. John Burroughs said that eggs poisoned him, and<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_61" id="Page_61">61</a></span> I have talked +with men of great wealth and great business ability who have reached the +top by their own efforts, who have told me that eggs poisoned them.</p> + +<p>Now I have found that for these nervous people animal food is a slow +poison. Sooner or later it will do its work.</p> + +<p>And just here I wish to say that there are some people who seemingly can +eat almost anything and not suffer from so doing. Last summer I talked +with Count Ilya Tolstoy, son of Leo Tolstoy, the celebrated Russian +writer. The Count, who is also a lecturer, told me that he was obliged +to have eggs and that he had eaten them all his life. He said his +appetite was never satisfied unless he ate eggs. He is now past sixty, +and apparently is strong and rugged. Now eggs no doubt are good for him. +But right here is where infinite harm can be done to nervous people like +myself. People who can eat everything—and among physicians seemingly +there<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_62" id="Page_62">62</a></span> are many who can do so—will say to these poor sufferers:</p> + +<p>"Why, it's all nonsense about things hurting you! Eat anything you want +and all you want and then forget about it."</p> + +<p>Physicians have said that to me and during the past twenty years I have +heard them say it thousands of times to others.</p> + +<p>Personally I do not believe in Christian Science—physicians of the +Regular school do not believe in it; but do you know that when a +physician says to a sufferer from "nerves," "It's all nonsense about +what you eat hurting you; eat anything you want and then forget about +it," that physician is fully endorsing Christian Science. He is telling +the person to whom he is talking that there is no such thing as physical +suffering. Of course, such a physician is nothing but a fool. Yet that's +why so many of these people turn to Christian Science. Yes, that is +exactly why they try it. It bolsters up a sufferer<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_63" id="Page_63">63</a></span> for a time just as +contact with a magnetic and hopeful personality may for a time bolster +one up. But such persons almost always go back to the sanitariums. +"Nerves" is not a mental disease; that is, the seat of the trouble is +not mental but physical, and the mental phase of "nerves" is only a +symptom, or rather one of the symptoms of the disease.</p> + +<p>We people who have gone down into the dark valley have experienced a +million, more or less, different kinds of feelings. I fully believe one +half of the American people are the offspring of nervous parents. This +means that there are fifty-five million of this nervous type of +Americans. This type includes people all the way from the man in an +office who gets angry quickly, to the individual who is in a state of +complete collapse. And the man who is afflicted with nothing more than a +quick temper, or is living under high nervous tension, is liable to +beget children who<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_64" id="Page_64">64</a></span> will suffer from the malady in a far worse degree +than ever he will, unless, indeed, he eats only the things he should eat +and observes a number of other rules besides the two I have already laid +down.</p> + +<p>Now, the ideal diet for nervous people is a slightly modified vegetarian +diet. To be specific, it is a Lacto-vegetarian diet minus eggs. There +are, however, two things included in this diet that I would warn one in +the beginning to eat of sparingly. These are bananas and cooked cabbage. +If they agree with you, well and good; but if they do not, let them +strictly alone.</p> + +<p>Eat all kinds of vegetables, both fresh and cooked. Eat all kinds of +fruits, especially fresh fruits. There is an old saying and a good one, +"An apple a day keeps the doctor away."</p> + +<p>There are a thousand ways to prepare vegetables and fruits for the +table, and there are a number of books that give<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_65" id="Page_65">65</a></span> good recipes. If a +nervous individual has never yet had a breakdown I believe he can safely +eat most of the vegetarian dishes that have eggs in them, but it would +be a serious mistake to select the special dishes that contain eggs and +live on those just because they contain eggs.</p> + +<p>I believe, too, that after a nervous person is restored to health, if he +strictly observes the rules of eating sparingly and of chewing all food +to a cream, he may safely try out such courses as are found in +<i>Bardsley's Recipes for Food Reformers</i> or <i>Broadbent's Forty Vegetarian +Dinners</i>.</p> + +<p>It may seem odd, but there are people who for some reason or other lack +the instinct, or whatever is needed, to know that a certain thing they +eat hurts them. I have had men and women sit in my office and say with +the utmost sincerity that they were certain that it wasn't anything they +ate that hurt them because they never had any pain in the abdomen.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_66" id="Page_66">66</a></span> +Sometimes these people were in a dreadful state of nervous breakdown. So +you see the danger that lies here. If you know, you can always tell what +special thing disagrees with you. For example, I know eggs disagree with +me, and like John Burroughs and many others, I know when they harm me. +Therefore, after you have recovered you might try being your own +physician. But if you are not sure as to what disagrees with you, you +would much better stick to a vegetarian diet and go without eggs the +remainder of your days.</p> + +<p>Commercial sugar also is the cause of many breakdowns among the people +of this country. And is it not strange how these poor suffering people +crave sweets—the very thing they should not have. They will argue with +themselves—and some physicians will agree with them—that they should +go right on eating candy because they want it. But, as I have already +said, there is just as much sense in<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_67" id="Page_67">67</a></span> saying a man should have whiskey +because he craves it or that a young man should have tobacco because he +craves it, as to say that any one should have candy because he craves +it. There is absolutely no sense in such an argument. If you are +suffering from a nervous breakdown, for sixty days quit eating candy and +everything sweet except honey, and follow the other rules I have already +laid down. It may be that you will have to stick to this diet for three +months. But try it. That is exactly what cured all my bodily ills and +brought my soul out of the dark and gloomy night after everything else +had failed. I do not mean to say that this diet alone cured me, but I do +say it was the biggest factor in the cure. There are, however, some +other things that it would be worse than folly to ignore. This I shall +come to later. But just here I want to have it understood that this +thing of eating—how you eat, and how much you<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_68" id="Page_68">68</a></span> eat, and what you +eat—is of transcendent importance in the cure.</p> + +<p>Of course, under some circumstances connected with cases of breakdown, +nothing but the good judgment of friends will avail. For example, the +question of how much one shall eat is something that not all the books +in the world nor all the physicians in the world can determine. I say, +always quit while you want a little more. I cannot say more or less than +that.</p> + +<p>So many have written me recently asking just what I eat, that it may be +a help to some of them if I set down here just what I ate today. I ate +no breakfast at all. Sometimes I go for weeks without eating breakfast. +This is especially apt to be the case if I am engaged in writing a +magazine article or a book. I find my brain is much clearer and that I +can work much better when I eat no breakfast. But I do drink one or two +cups of very weak tea. I use just enough tea to color the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_69" id="Page_69">69</a></span> water. Now I +do not advise everybody to go without breakfast. Some people tell me +that they have a headache unless they eat something. And some writers +say that if they do not eat a little breakfast they cannot write so +well. Thus you see where the question of common sense and using your own +judgment comes in. There are always a few things you will have to decide +for yourselves. At noon I ate about two handfuls of corn flakes with +milk and cream but no sugar, finishing with about four ounces of bread +pudding that had a little brown sugar in it. Now, in mid-afternoon, as I +write this, I am not hungry. Tonight I shall eat another dish of corn +flakes and some buttered toast and three or perhaps four good-sized +apples, I usually eat three or four apples a day. If I want a piece of +pie for lunch, I eat it, but I eat nothing else.</p> + +<p>I live on the plainest of plain foods. Apples used to create a lot of +gas in my<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_70" id="Page_70">70</a></span> stomach, but now they do not because I chew them to a cream. +Milk used to make me constipated, but it does not when I chew the cereal +with it carefully and eat a number of apples.</p> + +<p>Most nervous people are constipated. But apples are really the salvation +of nervous people. If you are constipated, drink, or rather, sip, a +glass of hot water half an hour before breakfast, then eat nothing for +breakfast but apples; eat two big ones and chew them slowly to a cream. +Go to stool regularly every morning. This habit is half the cure of +constipation.</p> + +<p>Apples, of all things I know, are the finest things for the liver. If +you take a patient ill from chronic indigestion, whose stools are clay +colored, and put him on a diet of apples, if he chews properly, in less +than twenty-four hours the stools will be of the regulation dark brown +color, as they should be when the liver is working in a normal, +healthful manner. And eating<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_71" id="Page_71">71</a></span> apples will work in exactly the same way +with children as with adults.</p> + +<p>Apples, apples, apples! Eat them no matter what the price. You remember +how good Adam found the apple—or at least we presume it was an apple +that he found so good—and I can think of no other single thing that +would tempt a man to make all the trouble he did. If he had to sin, then +I'm for Adam every time, for I think had I been in his place and Eve had +offered me a big juicy red apple, I should have taken it and eaten it. I +don't know but that I might even have eaten it without the invitation. I +think that Adam's great mistake was not so much in eating the apple as +in trying to lay the blame on the woman. Nobody should ever apologize +for having eaten an apple.</p> + +<p>Now, generally speaking, there is one thing a nervous parent—or any +other kind of parent for that matter—should never say to a child. Never +tell him he<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_72" id="Page_72">72</a></span> is nervous. If we realize that our children are the +offspring of nervous parents, it is, as I have already suggested, much +better for all concerned, for we cannot avoid a danger unless we know +what or where the danger is. When we know the child is nervous we should +plan carefully, leaving out of his diet all pastries and rich greasy +foods, and keep him largely on a vegetarian diet. But, as I have already +suggested, we do not need to diet a nervous child as strictly as we do a +nervous adult where infinite harm has already been done. Give the +nervous child meat only a part of the time, and if he goes without eggs +it will be all the better for him. I wish from the bottom of my heart +that I had never tasted an egg!</p> + +<p>What a fine thing it would be if we so trained our children that they +would never suffer from "nerves"! And usually it could be done. The +belief that because nervous parents have broken down their<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_73" id="Page_73">73</a></span> children +sooner or later must break down, is our greatest curse. But such a +belief is absurd, for if dieting, outdoor exercise, and a few other +simple rules are observed, there is no danger that it will happen. To be +sure, these rules must be definitely understood and strictly adhered to.</p> + +<p>If we treat this misfortune in the manner I shall mention later, we can +make our lives more successful and infinitely happier than the lives of +those who have never learned self-control. For instance, I am far +healthier than men all around me who seem to be able to eat three +Christmas dinners each day. They sit at the table and boast about being +"good feeders," then later they come to me for pills, saying, "There is +nothing the matter with me, doctor, but I thought I had better take a +little medicine so I won't get ill." But they don't fool me. I know +exactly what is the matter with them. They are so full of pork they +can't think. To tell the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_74" id="Page_74">74</a></span> truth, we people who have suffered from a +nervous breakdown or some illness akin to it, and have learned that we +must eat right or die, are of all people the most fortunate.</p> + +<p>Every now and then I hear some good old sister, with a face like a full +moon and jowls like a bloodhound, say, as she finishes her third piece +of mince pie,—her waist line having extended accordingly,—"Isn't it +too bad about poor brother Jones! He looks so terribly thin! They say he +has fallen away from one hundred and sixty pounds to only a hundred and +fifty. And they do say he can't eat meat and eggs at all! The poor man!"</p> + +<p>But the real facts of the case are that brother Jones is able to walk +ten miles any day, and the possibility is that in the not distant future +he will read in his morning paper that sister Sue Portly has been +operated on for gall stones and the number reported is almost +unbelievable, about<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_75" id="Page_75">75</a></span> three hundred, in fact. And so, all the time sister +Portly was feeling sorry for lithe, energetic brother Jones, she was a +walking stone quarry, as it were, and yet didn't know it.</p> + +<p>So don't worry because you have to diet or because after reading these +lines you determine that you must begin to diet. For, whoever you are, +and wherever you may be, you belong to a most fortunate class of people.</p> + +<p>And now I wish to say some things about what nervous people should do +besides dieting, and especially do I wish to say these things to those +now suffering from a nervous breakdown. Much of it at least will apply +to children of nervous parentage. You will observe as you go along that +I keep mentioning "these children." I do so always with the thought in +mind that there is absolutely no need for them ever to break down if +these common sense rules are followed. I take it that not any one<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_76" id="Page_76">76</a></span> of us +or a number of us, but that all of us love our children more than we +love ourselves. Admitting the truth of this, then we should all be +interested in this system for them as well as for ourselves, for as +their nerves are so shall their success be.</p> + +<hr class="major" /> +<div style='margin: auto; text-align: center; padding-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 1em;'> +<a name="IV._VALUE_OF_OUTDOOR_LIFE_AND_EXERCISE" id="IV._VALUE_OF_OUTDOOR_LIFE_AND_EXERCISE"></a> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_77" id="Page_77">77</a></span> +<h2>IV. VALUE OF OUTDOOR LIFE AND EXERCISE</h2> +</div> + +<table summary=''> +<tr><td> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_78" id="Page_78">78</a></span> +"Better to hunt in fields for health unbought.<br /> +The wise for cure on exercise depend;<br /> +God never made his work for man to mend."<br /> +</td></tr> +<tr><td style='text-align:right;'>—<span class="smcap">Dryden</span></td></tr> +</table> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_79" id="Page_79">79</a></span></p> +<hr class="major" /> +<h3>IV. VALUE OF OUTDOOR LIFE AND EXERCISE</h3> + +<p>People in this country are now beginning to get away from the idea that +a man or woman who is past sixty is getting "old." When the Rev. John +Wesley, the itinerant preacher and author, was eighty-eight years +old—please note the eighty-eight—he walked six miles to keep a +preaching appointment. When asked if the walk tired him, he laughed and +said: "Why, no! Not at all! The only difference I can see in my +endurance now and when I was twenty is that I cannot run quite so fast."</p> + +<p>I know there are calamity-howlers who say: "Oh, well, some people are +born to success and long life and some are not!" The individual who +permits himself to get into that frame of mind is doomed and<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_80" id="Page_80">80</a></span> no one can +help him. Such reasoning is of course all nonsense. John Wesley was +always a spare eater. Yet he lived an active outdoor life, often +traveling forty and even sixty miles a day on horseback. He never failed +to keep an appointment on account of the weather. And he was a tireless +worker, often preaching four and five times a day. At the same time he +read and wrote every spare moment, turning out a large amount of +literary work.</p> + +<p>Dr. Eliot, ex-President of Harvard College, a constant writer and +speaker, and among the greatest of American educators—now nearer 90 +than 80 years of age—is also a moderate eater. He says, "I have always +eaten moderately of simple food in great variety. This practice is +probably the result, first, of a natural tendency, and then of confirmed +habit and much experience under varying conditions of work and play. +From much observation of eating habits of other people, both the young +and<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_81" id="Page_81">81</a></span> the mature, I am convinced that moderation, simplicity, and variety +in eating are more important than any other bodily habit towards +maintaining good health, power of work, and, barring accidents, +attaining to enjoyable old age."</p> + +<p>It is interesting to note what that eminent lawyer, legislator, and +orator, Chauncey M. Depew, had to say on the occasion of his +eighty-seventh birthday about a simple diet and reaching the century +mark. "The true philosophy of life is this: The more you like a thing +the more reason there is for giving it up if you find it is not good for +you. If you treat nature properly, nature will adjust herself to you.</p> + +<p>"My diet is very simple. I have the same breakfast every day in the +year, and it consists of an orange, one four-minute egg, one half of a +corn muffin, and a cup of coffee which is mainly hot milk. I have this +at half past eight. My hour of rising is seven every morning.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_82" id="Page_82">82</a></span></p> + +<p>"For luncheon I partake principally of vegetables, with no meat, and a +glass of water. This is at one o'clock. At dinner I skip most of the +courses and enjoy small portions of vegetables, fish, and fowl. I never +eat between meals and consume now less than half I did at fifty."</p> + +<p>The vigor and long life of Bishop Fallows of Chicago are mainly due to +his living and mental habits and to his simple diet. He is well over 85 +years of age, but few men of three-score years can do as much work, the +year round. There are two or three sermons and several public addresses +each week, and the work of a large parish—from marriages and +christenings to funerals and parish visitings—which is never slighted. +An active Grand Army man and Civil War veteran, he is asked to address +countless military and patriotic gatherings, and his energy seems as +tireless as his spirit is willing. His ability to meet these demands can +be traced back to simple living and simple eating.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_83" id="Page_83">83</a></span></p> + +<p>The Bishop is temperate in all things, and refuses to worry. He neither +drinks nor smokes.</p> + +<p>In regard to his diet he says, "I eat very little meat, but take plenty +of fruit, cereals and vegetables. I take regularly before breakfast a +cup of hot grape juice. I use it frequently at other times. I take +buttermilk daily." Night and morning he takes simple physical exercises, +and always walks at least a couple of miles each day.</p> + +<p>The Bishop's ancestors were long-lived. His great grandfather lived to +be 96; his grandfather, 91; his eldest brother, 93. His father's death +from a fall occurred at the age of 81. He has a brother who is 92. This +in itself is evidence that he comes of a family in which right +living—which means simple living—has prevailed until its effects have +shown in each succeeding generation.</p> + +<p>The world-renowned American inventor, Thomas A. Edison, now in his 75th +year, has today a mind as brilliant and ingenious,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_84" id="Page_84">84</a></span> and a skill as +remarkable for inventing things that are of practical use, as when at 21 +he invented his automatic repeater which did so much for telegraphy. And +Edison is another spare eater. What he ate at the three meals of the day +on which he wrote the following letter, is characteristic of the small +amount he eats every day in the year.</p> + +<p>And you will learn that this is true of every man or woman who has lived +long and is still doing active brain work. And so, once for all, let us +think right about this matter. We get out of ourselves just about what +we put into ourselves or do for ourselves in the way of food and +exercise.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_85" id="Page_85">85</a></span></p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_86" id="Page_86">86</a></span></p> + +<div class='figcenter' style='width: 487px; padding-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 1em;'> +<a name="illus-002" id="illus-002"></a> +<img src='images/illus-085.png' alt='' title='' width = '487' height = '773'/> +</div> + +<p>Most people do not take enough systematic outdoor exercise. And +exercise, I would have you understand, is another essential in the cure +of one who has "nerves." But I am quite sure that a lot of bad advice +has been given women sufferers along this line. I find that as a rule, +women make better progress, at least at first, with complete rest or as +much rest as they can possibly get. I have seen great harm come from +telling a woman afflicted with "The Mysterious Disease"—as it is often +called—to take long walks. I am always extremely careful about telling +such a woman to indulge in vigorous exercise. Some women, of course, are +much stronger than others. My advice to a woman is to walk in the open +air unless she is so ill she cannot walk at all without becoming very +weak. And here again each person must use common sense and decide the +matter herself. But no person with a nervous breakdown should ever work +at any task or take any kind of exercise to the point of exhaustion.</p> + +<p>I well remember a man who came to me some years ago suffering from this +malady. He had been trying to get well by doing heavy stunts in a +gymnasium. He was very muscular, in fact he was an athlete,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_87" id="Page_87">87</a></span> and was +still under twenty-five years of age. His cheeks were ruddy, and to the +ordinary observer he appeared to be in the pink of condition. But he had +that peculiar expression of the eyes that flashed his story to me as +plainly as if blazoned forth by the letters of an electric sign. I told +him at once that he could never hope to cure his nerves by such violent +exercises.</p> + +<p>And right here let me advise men in this condition not to run. I receive +many letters of inquiry from young men with broken-down nerves who tell +me they are taking long walks and finishing with a run. To all such I +say: Do not run. I know all about it for I have tried it. I was on my +university football team. And all my life I have been fond of athletics. +I am still fond of this kind of life and always expect to be, but +exercise is frequently overdone by nervous people. Usually, the +physically strong man who<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_88" id="Page_88">88</a></span> breaks down with "nerves" thinks at once of +physical training. But strange as it may seem, you can make such a man's +muscles as hard as iron but that alone will not cure him. And it is true +that many people in this condition do not seem nervous for they are not +at all shaky, as some think an individual should be if he is the victim +of a nervous breakdown.</p> + +<p>I well remember that one day when at my worst I could not work nor +concentrate my mind on anything. I chanced to be in Topeka, Kansas, and +passed a shooting gallery. I was a good rifle shot and I had been taking +long walks and shooting Kansas jack rabbits. I went in, picked up one of +the rifles, and started firing at the biggest target. I rang the bell +twice on that target in succession, and then aimed at the finest target +there and rang the bell twice in succession on that. The proprietor was +very much surprised, saying it was remarkably good shooting; and<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_89" id="Page_89">89</a></span> yet I +was down and out with "nerves." I have seen many athletes who, to the +untrained observer, looked well, but who in reality were nervous wrecks. +Outdoor exercise alone will not cure such people, or if seemingly it +does—and this is important—sooner or later the individual is sure to +go down again. You have first to remove the cause, and that is largely +wrong diet. Now of course it is only reasonable to say that if such an +individual does not get out of doors at all he cannot get well.</p> + +<p>That is one trouble with many of our women today. They will go on a diet +and stick to it, but they will not get out of doors. If they do go out, +they ride a little distance in a street car or in an automobile to do +some shopping. Or they go to a store and spend a good deal of time +there—indoors, mind you—and then are whirled home again. Some of them +seem to think that is taking outdoor exercise, but of<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_90" id="Page_90">90</a></span> course it is not. +So many times they have said to me, "Why, I do get out!" Yes, they do +get out, but they immediately go indoors again.</p> + +<p>The nervous individual, unless the collapse is so severe that the first +few weeks must be spent in bed, should get out of doors at least three +or four hours a day, every day in the week. This is a general rule that +should be observed by everyone. It takes genuine courage, I know, for a +man or woman to spend this much time out of doors. And I know that those +who are compelled to work for a living cannot take three hours all at +one time. But labor conditions in this country are such that I am sure +the vast majority of our people could spend this much time outdoors in +wholesome recreation if they would make up their mind to do so.</p> + +<p>And remember this: After the nervous person is cured he should never let +anything prevent him from continuing such<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_91" id="Page_91">91</a></span> outdoor exercise. I am +constantly trying to make this point—when you get well you should stay +well. One breakdown is bad enough; don't have another. And you will not +have another if you will change the habits of a lifetime as you are +advised to do.</p> + +<p>Among farmers there are many, the offspring of nervous parents with bad +eating habits, who suffer from nervous breakdowns. So you see exercise +out of doors alone will not cure such cases. Sometimes a farmer will +tell me he fears to give up eating meat because he will grow weak as a +result. But just here I wish to call your attention to the fact that +there are nations that have for ages lived on this lacto-vegetarian +diet. I myself have not eaten meat or eggs for ten years. At least I +have not eaten them except the few times mentioned. And every time I did +break the rule I was harmed far more than I was benefited. I am very<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_92" id="Page_92">92</a></span> +sure the farmer who chooses this lacto-vegetarian diet will thrive on +it.</p> + +<p>Members of our profession discovered not very long ago that at an +advanced age the peasants of Bulgaria are a wonderfully preserved people +both mentally and physically. Foolishly a great number of the profession +immediately jumped to the conclusion that buttermilk alone did the +miracle for these people. The drinking of buttermilk became such a fad +that some of the largest of our physicians' supply houses began and are +still making "buttermilk tablets." And physicians, many of them, are +credulous enough to prescribe them. They might just as well prescribe +chalk. While buttermilk tablets are harmless, they are of no benefit +whatever. How easily fooled people—physicians included—may be! +Bulgarian peasants are strong and rugged and live to a great age not +because they drink buttermilk, but because they live on milk<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_93" id="Page_93">93</a></span> and fruits +and vegetables and stay out of doors. Buttermilk is a good healthful +drink, but it is only a minor reason for the health and strength of the +Bulgarian peasant. Now, really, could you think of anything more absurd +than to prescribe buttermilk or buttermilk tablets as the fountain of +youth when the patient is breaking all the laws of health, as most +buttermilk laymen and physicians are doing? It seems almost impossible +that people—physicians in particular—should for a moment believe such +things. But they do. Barnum said there was a "sucker" born every minute, +and this certainly seems to be true.</p> + +<p>No, there is no royal road to health. The buttermilk-tablet route will +not take you there. If you will live out of doors as Bulgarian peasants +do, and if you will eat as they do,—as man is expected to eat,—you +will live just as long as they do, and you will get a great deal more +out of<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_94" id="Page_94">94</a></span> life and be much more helpful to others. When the "time" comes +round for your next buttermilk tablet, do not take it. Instead, do as +those peasants do—leave off eating meat and take a two-hour walk in the +sunshine. Then when nine o'clock comes, like the Bulgarian, go to bed +and stay there until morning.</p> + +<p>If the person afflicted with "nerves" expects to get well and stay well, +he must go to bed at an early hour and get eight or nine hours of sleep +not only some nights but every night in the week. When one begins +dieting and taking outdoor exercise he should go to bed regularly at an +early hour even though he has not been sleeping well. No matter how many +sleepless nights he has experienced before beginning this regime, he +should retire early just the same, because, sooner or later, sleep will +come and the relaxed body is resting even if the individual does not +sleep. Now I have been through all this<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_95" id="Page_95">95</a></span> lying awake at night, so I know +from experience that it is best to go to bed early and at a regular +hour. If you can, you should sleep nine hours. Nervous people need more +sleep than others. Sleep is a better restorer of nerves than anything +else we can try. I do not believe that ten or even eleven hours' sleep +would be harmful to a nervous adult, because very often I have seen such +a person benefited by it.</p> + +<p>Children should have all the sleep they want up to ten or twelve hours. +But after a child has wakened in the morning he should be permitted to +get up. It is not good for him to lie in bed after he wishes to rise, +for nature is calling him to get up and exercise.</p> + +<p>The nervous individual not only should exercise systematically out of +doors but he should play some game. You remember when we were children +how much we loved to play? Well, to give up play when<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_96" id="Page_96">96</a></span> we grow up is all +nonsense. And just because people quit playing is the reason they have +wrinkles and frowns. Did you ever notice how often people laugh when at +play? There is something about play that compels one to laugh. And what +all people need, nervous people and others as well, is to get into the +habit of laughing more.</p> + +<p>And it is not hard to find something to play. I like to play at basket +ball with a child, and I can enjoy tossing a ball for an hour if the +child will stick to the game that long. Playing basket ball in the open +air on a sunshiny day is one of the very finest exercises in the world.</p> + +<p>If you are suffering from "nerves" and are able to be out of doors at +all,—I mean if you are well enough to be out, and at least nine out of +ten sufferers are,—get a basket ball and get some one to play with you. +If at first you are poor at catching the ball you will with practice +improve.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_97" id="Page_97">97</a></span> Gradually toss the ball a little higher and a little higher +until you have difficulty in catching it. Any woman or girl can stand +this sort of open air exercise. If the weather is cold, no matter; wrap +up and play anyway. But enter into the game with spirit. Playing the +regular game of basket ball is too violent exercise for the nervous +person. The victim of "nerves" should always keep in mind that it is +mild outdoor exercise that will do him good.</p> + +<p>Tennis is too violent an exercise for people who have had nervous +trouble. Anyway, there is no use in one's doing anything that will make +his heart beat like a trip-hammer. A women can toss a basket ball and +laugh and get rosy cheeks and grow younger and prettier as easily as +when playing tennis.</p> + +<p>Golf is also good exercise, but a large number of people who work for a +living and suffer from "nerves" would have little chance for exercise if +golf were all<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_98" id="Page_98">98</a></span> that could be offered them. Furthermore golf is +practically only a summer game, and an individual belonging to the +pre-nervous class needs outdoor exercise every day in the year. But golf +is excellent exercise, and there is nothing better if one has the time +to give to it and has access to links.</p> + +<p>Bicycling is splendid exercise for nervous people, but automobiles are +so numerous that it is now considered almost dangerous to ride a wheel +on any of our main traveled roads.</p> + +<p>Mountain climbing, I believe, is not to be recommended for most people +suffering from "nerves." I have known such people to go to Colorado and +spend some time climbing mountains, and then come back much worse than +when they went away. My advice to the nervous person who goes to the +mountains is to be out of doors all the time he can, but to take things +easy. It would be better for such<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_99" id="Page_99">99</a></span> a person to walk about slowly on the +level ground through some of the towns or along the foothills.</p> + +<p>Let leisure be your watchword in a hill country. I know I injured my +nerves out in Colorado one summer because I was ill advised. Mountain +air is good for you, but the mountains will do you more good if you +simply look at them. If you think you must go to the top, take a burro. +You will find that the burro will give you a lesson in how to do things +in a leisurely way. Do not get out of patience with him and whip him. +Remember that the burro is smarter than you are in regard to the +business of mountain climbing. He has never had a nervous breakdown, and +if you will let him have his own way he never will have. It will do you +good to let him have his way; he affords a tremendous lesson in +patience. Patience, that's just what we need, and we need it badly.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_100" id="Page_100">100</a></span></p> + +<p>Walking slowly in the open air for two or three hours is the best +exercise for man. Fortunately, like the water we drink, it is free to +the poor as well as the rich.</p> + +<p>For the nervous man who is able to do it, I know of nothing better to +build up muscles and keep the liver and other internal organs in good +shape than sawing wood. Don't scorn this sort of exercise because you +have been told that the ex-Kaiser is taking it. That is not to be laid +up against the wood or the exercise, for, quite fortunately, the wood +does not care who saws it.</p> + +<p>Get some wood, then, and a buck saw, and saw wood for your own benefit. +You can do this morning and evening. Wood sawing brings into play every +muscle in the body, and the exercise is just enough to make a man +comfortably tired without doing him harm.</p> + +<p>Many people who go to sanitariums for a cure pay from fifty to +seventy-five dollars<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_101" id="Page_101">101</a></span> per week for the privilege of sawing wood, and you +can take this exercise just as well and at considerably less expense at +home, sawing your own wood instead of that of the sanitarium.</p> + +<p>Another splendid diversion for a man with "nerves," if he can have it, +is a small workshop where he can make just any old thing out of boards +and nails. If one is apt in this line, he can make things that will +interest children. This sort of work requires a certain kind of +concentration that is most excellent for the nervous sufferer. This +suggestion would of course apply to a woman, too, if she cared to try +such an experiment. Sewing, and especially fine needlework, is very +trying to a woman's nerves, and if she has broken down under that kind +of work she should quit it and do something else. If she has to make her +living in that way, she of all people should observe the outdoor rules +as well as rules for dieting.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_102" id="Page_102">102</a></span></p> + +<p>I am sure nervous people profit by frequenting all possible outdoor +games. If a number of people afflicted with "nerves" could get together +and take daily walks and at the same time determine that their +conversation should always have a humorous slant, it would help all of +them wonderfully.</p> + +<p>Riding in an automobile is beneficial if the machine is driven slowly +and the patient is kept out of doors from three to four hours. But the +fast driving that is generally done is bad for these people. They come +back from a ride worse than when they started.</p> + +<p>It may be set down as a general rule that any form of outdoor exercise +or play is good for the nervous person if it is not violent.</p> + +<p>Nervous people should, if possible, take a vacation once a year and get +into new surroundings. I am certain, however, that it does not make any +difference where one<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_103" id="Page_103">103</a></span> lives. A man is just as likely to have a breakdown +in one part of the world as another. While on these vacations he should +stick to his rules just as rigidly as when he is at home.</p> + +<p>I have had letters from people in Canada and from others in Florida who +have suffered nervous breakdowns. In California some go to pieces. I +have had many letters from people living there who have broken down. +People also break down in Colorado and in New York; in fact, in every +state in the Union. Climate does not seem to make any difference so far +as this trouble is concerned, with the exception that in high altitudes +I have observed nervous people are inclined to be more restless than +elsewhere. Some years ago I went up Pike's Peak, to the Summit House. I +went to bed and spent the night there, but I do not say I slept, for in +reality I slept only about half an hour. I was not at all sick at the +stomach, as so many<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_104" id="Page_104">104</a></span> are who climb up there; I had prevented this by +eating a very light breakfast and chewing my food to a cream. But I was +extremely nervous. I have found a great many other nervous people who do +not feel quite right when in a high altitude. As a general rule, sea +level is as good a place as a nervous individual can find to live. But +people break down there, too. The diet, you see, is the big thing. And +when I say "diet" I mean the way food is eaten and the amount eaten +quite as much as I do the kind of food eaten.</p> + +<p>And once more let me say, systematic outdoor exercise also counts, and +you can't keep fit if you exercise only one, two, or three days a week. +Some people who take long walks in the country on Sunday think that will +suffice. But it will not. You must have exercise every day and must have +some play along with it. Gymnasium work is of very little value as +compared to outdoor exercise.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_105" id="Page_105">105</a></span></p> + +<p>In the summertime, gardening is a splendid form of exercise. And so is +the care of a small flock of chickens, which is possible for those +living in the smaller towns. It is always better, when taking outdoor +exercise, to have something definite to do. When walking it is a good +plan, if you can, to have some definite place to go. And if you have an +agreeable companion to keep up a rapid-fire talk, that will help also. +All these things are mentally stimulating.</p> + +<p>Then, if possible, sleep the year round on a sleeping porch. If you +don't possess a porch, then, have all the windows in your sleeping room +wide open day and night.</p> + +<p>If for a time you have to take physic, it is best to take some hot +mineral water half an hour before breakfast. But adhering to dieting and +exercise, and eating enough apples, usually overcomes constipation.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_106" id="Page_106">106</a></span></p> + +<p>Now, there are some things about which a person must use his own good +judgment. For instance, if you have any bad teeth you should at once go +to a good dentist and have them attended to. Nobody with bad teeth can +have good health.</p> + +<p>Again, if your tonsils have become mere pus sacs you will have to go to +a good nose and throat specialist and have them removed before you can +expect to have good health. This, however, applies to all people, +whether nervous or not.</p> + +<p>The same thing is true with regard to your eyes. If you are suffering +from eye strain because you need glasses, you cannot hope to get well of +"nerves" until your eyes are properly fitted to glasses by some reliable +eye specialist. These are things that each individual must discover and +do for himself. He should consult a dentist, an oculist, an aurist, or +other specialist according to his particular need.</p> + +<hr class="major" /> +<div style='margin: auto; text-align: center; padding-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 1em;'> +<a name="V._EFFECT_OF_RIGHT_LIVING_ON_WORRY_AND_UNHAPPINESS" id="V._EFFECT_OF_RIGHT_LIVING_ON_WORRY_AND_UNHAPPINESS"></a> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_107" id="Page_107">107</a></span> +<h2>V. EFFECT OF RIGHT LIVING ON WORRY AND UNHAPPINESS</h2> +</div> + +<div class="blockquot2"><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_108" id="Page_108">108</a></span>"Neither melancholy nor any other affection of the mind can hurt +bodies governed with temperance and regularity."</p> +<p style='text-align:right;'>—<span class="smcap">Cornaro</span></p> +</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_109" id="Page_109">109</a></span></p> + +<hr class="major" /> + +<h3>V. EFFECT OF RIGHT LIVING ON WORRY AND UNHAPPINESS</h3> + +<p>A very sad thing about some nervous people is the fact that in their +lives there are domestic or other troubles which no physician can +overcome. Some of them live in depressing surroundings, but for all +these there is hope. There is no doubt that if we can restore the brain +to a perfectly normal, healthful state the human being can bear more +suffering than when the brain is affected. Perhaps when speaking of the +spirit we had better call it that, rather than the brain, for that +mysterious something we call spirit does make its home in the brain of +man. This has been proven scientifically. So then, in this life the +temple of the spirit, or soul, does affect the mind. And when I say this +life, I<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_110" id="Page_110">110</a></span> take the opportunity to say here that I not only believe in the +immortality of the soul, but now, at 45, I am as certain of it as I am +of my own existence. But for some reason—although as yet no one +understands why it should do so—when this temple in which the spirit +dwells is out of condition, it affects the soul or spirit. So, you see, +if we can make the physical man or woman well, we most certainly can +help the spirit that dwells within the body.</p> + +<p>And so I recommend dieting, temperance in eating, and the careful +chewing of food to all those sufferers who unfortunately live in +depressing surroundings and cannot get away from them. When referring to +the many pitiful letters I have received from poor human beings thus +situated, I realize that I am treading on sacred ground. Such things are +written, of course, to a physician in confidence and the confidence must +therefore be forever<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_111" id="Page_111">111</a></span> sacred. I have not only had letters from these +unfortunate people, but have repeatedly come in contact with many of +them in their every day life. I know well what added suffering such +conditions bring to them.</p> + +<p>I know of nothing in this world more pitiful than a noble, +high-spirited, ambitious woman, pure and clean of heart, who marries a +man and becomes the mother of his children and is then condemned to live +the life of a mere animal. And all too frequently the opposite also +obtains. Sometimes a man of high, pure purpose finds that he has chosen +as the mother of his children a coarse, sensual woman. Now why in the +world were these two people attracted to each other? This is one of +life's biggest puzzles to those who have thought much along this line. +In many instances extreme youth is the reason given. While youth is +mating time, it also is the time of bad judgment. Thousands<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_112" id="Page_112">112</a></span> of young +people have made this dreadful mistake simply because they married too +young. On the other hand, youth is not altogether to blame. When people, +young or old, are courting, each individual endeavors to appear at his +or her best before the other. Without being actually aware of it, under +such circumstances both man and woman are doing all that lies in their +power to deceive one another.</p> + +<p>If people would do their courting in everyday clothes, and if the girl +would go about her housework while the man looked on, or better still, +if he helped her with it for one or two years, they would undoubtedly +become better acquainted.</p> + +<p>But, after all, except, perhaps, in unusual cases, there is absolutely +nothing by which people know that they are going to be properly mated. +If a man with a tendency to neurasthenia breaks down and is tied to a +nagging wife, that is usually the last straw in the way of his +recovery.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_113" id="Page_113">113</a></span></p> + +<p>This is just as true of the woman who breaks down and has a nagging +husband. There are, I regret to say, thousands of such cases all over +the country. On the other hand I have had a man come to me and say that +he was willing to do anything on earth to aid his wife, but he could not +get her to diet or even to make a serious attempt to get well. I am +always tremendously sorry for such a man because he has a mighty heavy +burden to bear. Such a wife should try to get well as much for the man's +sake as for her own. She should understand that she is needlessly +torturing the one best friend she has on earth.</p> + +<p>A woman of this kind should remember that, no matter how much she may +suffer, she is hopelessly selfish if she will not do all in her power to +diet and to obey other necessary rules that will enable her to get rid +of the malady. Sometimes when a physician puts this before her kindly +but<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_114" id="Page_114">114</a></span> firmly it results in her making a beginning and by and by getting +well. I have seen this happen many times. And I wish to say right here +that while I believe I was born with some natural tact, yet if I had not +gone through all this horrible suffering myself I should not, I know, be +able to say the things that would induce these people to do that which +it is their duty to do.</p> + +<p>And here is one big difficulty I have always had to contend with. Some +of these people have tried so many so-called nonsense cures—eating +buttermilk tablets, for instance—and have had no benefit from them, +that they are unwilling to try the one and only thing that will cure +them—the thing that will cure them as sure as the sun shines. I wonder +why it is that since the time of Christ people are always looking for a +sensational or miraculous cure. Our life and everything pertaining to it +is miracle enough, if we only had the sense to see it.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_115" id="Page_115">115</a></span></p> + +<p>The woman or the man with "nerves" is not going to get well eating +buttermilk tablets or taking patent dope while lying on a couch and shut +in a house. You must bestir yourself. You must get out of doors, and +above all, you must eat right. Today thousands of these people are +languishing in hospitals and sanitariums, and most of them will come out +only to go back again and again. The institutional treatment is good for +the beginning of the cure, but if an individual with "nerves" is going +to get well and stay well he must change his lifelong habits.</p> + +<p>And I want to say again, that any person, man or woman, in the midst of +depressing conditions can triumph over them if he will eat as he should +and live as he should. There is something about the human soul, if it is +pure and fine, and if proper attention is given to right living, that +will enable a person to meet great sorrow and triumph over it. In fact, +no<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_116" id="Page_116">116</a></span> amount of sorrow can defeat a person who keeps his heart and body +right.</p> + +<p>And I would have you all realize that there is something far more to us +than mere bones and veins and nerves. I know the terrible tendency of +the one with "nerves" to get angry. But lay fast hold of yourself. Fight +anger as you would poison, because in reality it is poison to your +nerves. Anger will hurt you; it will hurt anybody. But no matter how +hard you find it at first, get control of your temper. If you succeed in +doing this in a year you will have won one of the greatest victories man +can win in this world. I would rather meet a so-called plain man who has +perfect control over his physical and mental faculties, and sit and talk +quietly with him, than to meet the Prime Minister of England or the +President of the United States if either lacked this control. For I say +to you that no matter what others may say, the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_117" id="Page_117">117</a></span> true measure of success +does not rest in the position you occupy but in your having complete +control of yourself.</p> + +<p>If you are to gain this control it means that each day you are +confronted by a mighty big task, but if finally successful, you will +have accomplished the greatest thing a man can do in this life. Now, +here is something for you to take hold of, you who all these years have +believed that your life ambition has been thwarted. But your ambition, +let me tell you, has not been thwarted. Perhaps you have not done just +what you wanted to do. But it's quite possible that you had no business +trying to do that special thing anyway. Most of us, I find, can be +greatly mistaken about what we think we want to do. At any rate, we can +never be happy unless we gain entire control of ourselves.</p> + +<p>This is something the person afflicted with "nerves" most certainly can +do,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_118" id="Page_118">118</a></span> and he can use this terrible "thing" as I myself and thousands of +others have used it as a ladder to climb to the sunlit peaks where worry +and clouds and storms cannot trouble. And, after all, no matter who we +are, no matter how poor or how rich we are, and no matter where we live, +life holds about the same general possibilities for all of us. I mean by +this that life affords to all the same opportunities for real happiness.</p> + +<p>I know very well that there are those who will be quite unwilling to +grant this, but it is as true as the life we live. Many people in this +old world still hold the notion that those who roll in wealth are the +happy ones. But I say to you this notion is all wrong, and from +knowledge gained through experience I know that in their hearts many of +these wealthy people are dissatisfied and not one whit happier than you +are. The most restless people, the most unhappy people, and the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_119" id="Page_119">119</a></span> most +thoroughly dissatisfied people that I have ever met have been people who +had everything that riches could give them.</p> + +<p>Andrew Carnegie said he had noticed that after a man had accumulated a +million dollars smiles were seldom seen on his face. I cannot understand +why people insist on going through life making themselves and all those +they really love miserable just because they do not happen to have +riches.</p> + +<p>And a great many high-strung sensitive men are utterly cast down because +they have failed to acquire wealth by the time they are forty-five or +fifty years of age.</p> + +<p>I wish I could make all such poor, afflicted people see what goes to +make up happiness and learn the only way to be happy. In order to get +well the thing we have to do is to follow nature's simple rules—rules +our Creator gave to us. We<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_120" id="Page_120">120</a></span> must get control not only of our appetites +but of all such passions as anger, hate, and envy, which poison our +bodies. And let us also cast suspicion out of our minds. This is a good +rule to observe: Never suspect folks. It is useless, anyway, for by and +by what they are or what they do is always bound to come to the surface.</p> + +<p>By gaining perfect control over yourself—and most certainly to do so is +worth every effort you may make—you will also gain patience, and that +is, I think, one of the crowning virtues. Sometimes I think it the +greatest of all virtues. Certainly it stands very high in the perfecting +of character.</p> + +<p>To the sufferer with "nerves" I would say: Have the courage to believe +that you are going to get well. Then you can do it. No matter how +depressing or discouraging your surroundings, do the very best you can +every day. Then, no matter what your ideas of success may have been,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_121" id="Page_121">121</a></span> +you are really succeeding wonderfully! See that you keep right on doing +it! If you are a mother and have children, live for them. Or if you are +a father and have children, and have met with disappointments, live for +those children! Do everything in your power to make them happy, high of +heart, and gallant of soul. Do not live for yourself, live for your +children. If you have no children of your own, look about and get +interested in some other person's children. You will find a lot of +children all around you—blessed little beings—that you can help to +make happy. Get your mind off yourself and your troubles and on the +children of this world, and keep it there.</p> + +<p>When you were a child no doubt you had many happy days. Some of us had a +very happy childhood, while others may have been denied what their +hearts desired. But if we did not have a happy childhood that is all the +more reason why<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_122" id="Page_122">122</a></span> we should be glad to help some other little ones have a +happy one. More and more each year I live I come to believe that it +depends entirely upon grown people whether in this world children are +happy or not happy.</p> + +<p>If you had a happy childhood—and most people had—do you not recall the +glorious times you had? I know you do, for we all do. And I know, too, +how much people affected with nerves dwell on those memories, and how +much they wish they might go back to those blessed days when the sun was +always shining and the birds were always singing and the streams always +beckoning them to play along their sands.</p> + +<p>Do you realize that you can live in those days again? I do, and I go +back and dwell in them more and more the older I get. I do not mean that +I am not looking forward, for I am, tremendously.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_123" id="Page_123">123</a></span></p> + +<p>How stupid we poor miserable creatures of this world become after we +leave our childhood days behind us! We really should never lose sight of +them. I have said that the person afflicted with "nerves" should not +run. I did not quite mean all that implies. After such a man has +recovered, if he has a good heart, he should run a little. I run; I +can't help it. I feel so good I have to run a little now and then to +work off steam. But you know very well when most people see a man +running they at once think a house is afire somewhere.</p> + +<p>It is almost unbelievable that we should actually surround ourselves +with so many utterly senseless customs that tend to nothing but misery +and unhappiness. We should dress for comfort, and we should have the +courage to live in a youthful world where all may be happy. "If the +blind lead the blind," so the Bible tells us, "both shall fall into the +ditch." We<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_124" id="Page_124">124</a></span> need so to live and act that we shall not fail to be happy. +Happiness really is what everybody is chasing, but how very far away +from it most people are getting! Go back to the memories of your +childhood. Be with children and play with them all you possibly can. If +you are a mother, begin this very day to exercise more patience with +your children, recalling over and over again that when you were a child +you were just as they are. And remember, for it is only too true, that +the day is fast coming when your little boy will no longer be a little +boy, he will be a man, and will have gone away from you. Then many times +you will wish him back, and you will look back on those days when you +thought your nerves were being ruined, and feel a great swelling in your +breast, and breathing a sigh, whisper to yourself, "Dear God, I hope I +did all I ought to have done for him while he was little."<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_125" id="Page_125">125</a></span></p> + +<p>I know that any one can live with children and find happiness in being +one with them, and I know of no better thing to do. After we have hold +of ourselves with a firm grip we should endeavor to do this.</p> + +<p>I have had people suffering with "nerves" tell me they had lost a little +boy or a little girl, and that it seems impossible to get over this +loss. I cannot tell you how much I long to help such people. But I +always urge them to go right on playing with other children and to +remember, for to me it is certain truth, that they will meet that little +child again. There should be nothing to grieve about in such a loss. To +find compensation, the one who has had such a grief has only to keep on +playing the part of a true man or true woman. Childhood with all its +pains and pleasures is everywhere about us. And childhood is only the +beginning of immortality.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_126" id="Page_126">126</a></span></p> + +<p>Late one night, a number of years ago, I was sitting in a little +restaurant in a western town, and was feeling very lonely and miserable. +Sorrow weighed heavily upon me that night and the world never seemed +blacker, yet I think my belief in the immortality of the soul had never +been more certain. I looked up and high on the smoke-stained wall hung a +painted picture of an old-time ship with many sails set. This painting +pictured the ship sailing through the darkness of night. But through the +dark, seemingly restless clouds the moon gleamed brightly on the white +canvas of the sails.</p> + +<p>I had never before been so powerfully impressed by any picture. It +seemed fairly to speak to me. I took an envelope from my pocket and set +down the verses given here. These verses were afterwards published in +one or two metropolitan papers. Mr. James Bryce, then English Ambassador +at Washington, saw<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_127" id="Page_127">127</a></span> them and wrote me a beautiful letter about them, in +which he said, "Your little poem 'The Last Journey' attracts me very +much." You see he was beginning to grow old, and I knew that was the +reason these lines of mine had made an appeal to him.</p> + +<p>Not very long after this I also had a letter about the verses from Dr. +Osler, then Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford. In it he said, "I +have read your little poem 'The Last Journey' with unusual interest." +And again I knew why. You see, it does not matter very much what our +rank or our station here, no matter whether a human being is a king or +what his station in life may be, he still is a human being. We are all +reaching out after the same great thing. The fine thing about the +sentiment of these little verses is that although you wish to and may +not believe it, it is coming true anyway.</p> + +<hr class='major' /> + +<h3>THE LAST JOURNEY</h3> +<table summary='last journey'> +<tr><td> +One night when in a youthful dream,<br /> +I saw a moonlit sea,<br /> +And sailing o'er its dark expanse,<br /> +A ship of mystery.<br /> +<br /> +The lonely traveler seemed to be<br /> +On some great mission bound,<br /> +As o'er the darkened waters<br /> +It sailed without a sound.<br /> +<br /> +Long years have passed; old age has come:<br /> +The fire of life is low.<br /> +Again I think of that strange dream<br /> +Of youth so long ago.<br /> +<br /> +And in the ship that swiftly sailed<br /> +That silent moonlit sea,<br /> +I seem to see a storm-tossed soul<br /> +Bound for eternity.<br /> +<br /> +Now to my mind this sweet dream comes,<br /> +A peaceful memory,<br /> +For soon I'll be A YOUTH again,<br /> +With Immortality!<br /> +</td></tr> +</table> + + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of How to Eat, by Thomas Clark Hinkle + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HOW TO EAT *** + +***** This file should be named 19762-h.htm or 19762-h.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/1/9/7/6/19762/ + +Produced by Roger Frank and the Online Distributed +Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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