Ideas may be inherited, but a disease springing there-
from has to .develop.
203
Between now and the opening of the fasting season
malted beers are permissible, aiding dyspeptics and con-
sumptives where used moderately and in connection with
wholesome bread, raw eggs alternated with cottage cheese.
Grapefruit juice beaten into sweet cream will cool a
swollen liver and promote better bowel action.
A mild and most effective laxative will be found in
taking a half a cupful of rich cream and fill up the other
half of the cup with steaming drip Mocha coffee. Half an
hour later take slowly the juice of a lemon.
Bananas baked with cooked rice will prove wholesome.
Sore throats are very common these days, due to the
exceptionally alternative changes in weather. Be sure to
keep feet clean and dry.
The best thing for a cough is three drops of oil of
eucalyptus in a wineglassful of hot water, taken internally,
and a piece of soft wrapping paper saturated with the oil
of eucalyptus placed upon the chest.
When going out, do not button up your coat to the
neck. Give your neck freedom ; let the fumes of the body
be carried off by virtue of your collared chimney.
Banana well mashed and enough sweet cream beaten
into it to make it like a soft paste will act upon the bowels
mildly, at the same time prove quite an ideal diet for a
season, while oranges with apples will prove cooling and
very nutritious at this time and for some months to come.
Although a little unpleasant to the taste, garlic is in
season and should be used freely once a week. The
proper way to use garlic as a tonic and remedy is to take
hot toast and rub the garlic on it like you would spread
butter. One large clove or two small ones will suffice.
Toast and garlic eaten with a dish of prunes will prove
a splendid purgent. At this season of rush and feasting
garlic will prove a preventive.
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FEBRUARY.
Grapefruits are in season until the last week of Lent.
For purification, particularly for severe blood diseases and
the various phases of poisoning, use two to four grapefruits
a day for ten days, and subsist largely on ginger bread.
Grapefruit cures jaundice and all blood diseases.
The juice of three grapefruits will check a severe cold.
In case of real hunger make it a point to use oil broths
with garlic before eating anything solid.
Pineapples are in season for weak stomachs. Take one
tablespoonful of the juice on an empty stomach and before
each meal. Take after meals also for ten days.✪ Pineapple Juice for Weak Stomach
In case of general debility, fever, cold and cough, take
a pint of sweet cider with the juice of two large lemons,
and eat grapefruits only when hungry, for three to four
days.
Shortness of breath during the cold season is best eradi-
cated thru the use of cane sugar, thoroly browned, and dis-
solved while hot in as much lemon juice as it will take,
then taken in doses of one to two tablespoonfuls.
For mental gymnastics call to mind all the countries,
mountains, valleys, cities, towns, hamlets, all the vegetation
and their classification known to you, all the minerals
handled by you, all the things of art worthy of your adora-
tion, and the good people you have met in your life. Keep
up this exercise daily before retiring and your memory
will grow stronger, your mind brighter, your mood hap-
pier.
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Ideas may be inherited, but a disease springing therefrom has to .develop.
Between now and the opening of the fasting season malted beers are permissible, aiding dyspeptics and consumptives where used moderately and in connection with wholesome bread, raw eggs alternated with cottage cheese.
Grapefruit juice beaten into sweet cream will cool a swollen liver and promote better bowel action.
A mild and most effective laxative will be found in taking a half a cupful of rich cream and fill up the other half of the cup with steaming drip Mocha coffee. Half an hour later take slowly the juice of a lemon.
Bananas baked with cooked rice will prove wholesome.
Sore throats are very common these days, due to the exceptionally alternative changes in weather. Be sure to keep feet clean and dry.
The best thing for a cough is three drops of oil of eucalyptus in a wineglassful of hot water, taken internally, and a piece of soft wrapping paper saturated with the oil of eucalyptus placed upon the chest.
When going out, do not button up your coat to the neck. Give your neck freedom ; let the fumes of the body be carried off by virtue of your collared chimney.
Banana well mashed and enough sweet cream beaten into it to make it like a soft paste will act upon the bowels mildly, at the same time prove quite an ideal diet for a season, while oranges with apples will prove cooling and very nutritious at this time and for some months to come.
Although a little unpleasant to the taste, garlic is in season and should be used freely once a week. The proper way to use garlic as a tonic and remedy is to take hot toast and rub the garlic on it like you would spread butter. One large clove or two small ones will suffice. Toast and garlic eaten with a dish of prunes will prove a splendid purgent. At this season of rush and feasting garlic will prove a preventive.
FEBRUARY.
Grapefruits are in season until the last week of Lent. For purification, particularly for severe blood diseases and the various phases of poisoning, use two to four grapefruits a day for ten days, and subsist largely on ginger bread.
Grapefruit cures jaundice and all blood diseases.
The juice of three grapefruits will check a severe cold.
In case of real hunger make it a point to use oil broths with garlic before eating anything solid.
Pineapples are in season for weak stomachs. Take one tablespoonful of the juice on an empty stomach and before each meal. Take after meals also for ten days.
In case of general debility, fever, cold and cough, take a pint of sweet cider with the juice of two large lemons, and eat grapefruits only when hungry, for three to four days.
Shortness of breath during the cold season is best eradicated thru the use of cane sugar, thoroly browned, and dissolved while hot in as much lemon juice as it will take, then taken in doses of one to two tablespoonfuls.
For mental gymnastics call to mind all the countries, mountains, valleys, cities, towns, hamlets, all the vegetation and their classification known to you, all the minerals handled by you, all the things of art worthy of your adoration, and the good people you have met in your life. Keep up this exercise daily before retiring and your memory will grow stronger, your mind brighter, your mood happier.
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