Excerpt from Good Health: Or the Physiology of Dietetics Massage
The original motive which prompted me to write this book arose from a contemplation of the increasingly large number of sudden deaths due to preventable diseases among people in the prime of life.
On two different occasions I had myself been very near deaths door from, diseases which could have easily been prevented if I had at the time understood the physiology of digestion and principles of hygiene.
As I was restored to health, strength, and vigour by adopting the system set forth in the following pages, and for fifteen years past have witnessed its good effects upon others, as well as upon myself the experience is here recorded with the hope that still larger numbers may benefit by the same means.
The work is written in plain, simple language, and, as far as possible, void of technicalities, for the purpose of reaching the class of people who most require instruction upon the primary laws of health.
It is interspersed with illustrations, anecdotes, and references designed to place the subject in a semi-novel form, so as to render it m.ore interesting and attractive to the general reader.
At the same time, there is a close observance maintained to the proper principles of the most approved and up-to-date views of leading physiologists, with the object of securing, maintaining, and promoting health.
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