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204 NOTICES OF BOOKS.
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The Physiology Of Common Blackwood Life....
unusual flow of saliva Is always a warning to me that the mucous membran of my stomach is affected . ... " The deduction from these facts is simple and important . All who are
troubled with a deficiency of gastric juice should be careful to let their food taste be as comparativel full of flavor y quiet as possible , leaves . the Tasteless secretion food of gastric , by leaving juice prop the ortionatel nerves of y
knows feeble . that Food we which can eat has a a variety relish of can dishes be more with easil less y labor digested in di . gestion Every , than one a smaller quantity of one kind of foodsimplbecause the variety of ' relish '
makes the digestive process more active , . y "It is , I conceive , from the same law of sympathetic action that smoking * , after a meal , assists digestion . There has been much discussion respecting
the injuriousness of smoking , ever since Tobacco was first discovered ; but as Physiology was—and still is in most circles—little understood , a very considerable amount of nonsense has beenand continues to beuttered on this
question . It is a positive fact that the , gastric secretion can , at any time be before produced stated by , whatever simply stimulating stimulates the the secretion salivary g of lands saliva with promotes tobacco that ; and of , the as
gastric juice . Smoking does this . A cigar after dinner is therefore to that extent beneficial . Not so before a meal . " But the action of tobacco is not confined to this—it has other influences ,
of some the beneficial organism , ; some and injurious therein each ; the person amount must of injury judge for depends himself on . the There nature is Is onl said y one to caution be not injurious which it Is but right beneficial to place before it must the always reader be . understood When tobacco to
mean tobacco in small quantities , . Excess , in tobacco is very Injurious ; so also is excess in alcohol ; so also would be excess In mutton-chops . All excess is dangerous . All stimulants should be used _sparingly . Yet the man
makes who never no scrup thinks le of of exceeding smoking his a dozen half a ci p gars int of . wine From , or my pint own of beer experience , daily , , rendered organism vi I g can ilant conscientiousl as I am by a delicate that two digestion cidaily , and always an easil taken y disturbed after
and never , before , the chief meals y say , have proved gars themselves , to be decidedly , beneficial in many directions ; but I should no more think of increasing that quantity , than of increasing my daily quantity of coffee or beer . Other
organisms could of course endure greater quantities . Each must determine the _proj _3 er limit for himself , and having determined it , abide by it . " Among general the disregard many sli to ght eating causes between of impaired meals . digestion The powerful is to be reckoned digestion the of
very a growing boy makes light of all such irregularities ; but to see adults , and often those by no means in robust health , eating muffins , buttered toast , or bread-and-butter , a couple of hours after a heavy dinner , is a distressing
during spectacle that to period the _j _^ hysiolog the stomach ist . It should takes be at leas allowed t four repose hours . to di A gest little a dinner tea , or ; having encumbrance any other at all liquid a : delicate there , is beneficial is no digestion gastric rather juice will than attend ready otherwise to to di his gest ; but sensations it ; solid and food if after any is reader a eating mere ,
muffin , or toast , at tea , unless his , dinner has had time to digest , he will need Eng no dinner sentences lish . , families of _exp of _lan making ation tea to convince a light meal him , quickl of the y serious succeeding error a prevalent substanti in al
" Regularity In the hours of eating is far from necessary ; but regularity of or intervals dine , provided is of primary you allow importance the proper . It matters intervals little to elapse at what between hour you breakfast lunch
Thi and s luncheon is a question , and between each must luncheon settle and for dinner himself . . What Much are dep those ends intervals on the ? di amount gests . eaten Less at than each four meal hours , much should also never on the be rap allowed idity with after which a heavy each meal person of
meat . Five hours is about the average for men in active work . But those
204 Notices Of Books.
204 NOTICES OF BOOKS .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 1, 1860, page 204, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01111860/page/60/
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