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"How to Eat, A Cure for Nerves" - by Thomas Clark Hinkle, M.D.
Copyright 1921 , published by Rand McNally Co., Chicago / New York
Right and wrong diet for nervous people, value of outdoor life and exercise, effect of eating on worry and happiness. "Whosoever wishes to eat much must eat little" - Meaning that if a man wishes to eat for a great many days, that is, desired a long life, then he must eat only a little each day. "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." - Cornaro / Hardcover, 128 pages
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