Part 25

EXERCISE NO. 5--Stand erect, feet about thirty inches apart, hands clasped overhead, elbows rigid; inhale deeply. Bend toward the left, describing a complete circle with the clasped hands. Exhale when erect. Reverse; describing a circle in the opposite direction completes the movement. This exercise should be executed from 25 to 50 times.

RE-CREATION

The small boy who described work as "anything you don't want to do," and play as "anything you do want to do," had in his mind the fragment of a great truth. True re-creation should afford DIVERSION, ENTERTAINMENT, and WORK. The average business man who is threatened with a breakdown, and who goes away for a rest, should in reality go to work, but it should be a different kind of work from his routine duties. No one was ever benefited by idleness; it is contrary to nature--contrary to the universal laws of construction which govern all forms of life. If digestion and assimilation have been impaired, if, from errors in eating, or from sedative habits, congestion has taken place in the alimentary tract, then muscular work becomes absolutely necessary in order to use more nutrition, to eliminate more poison and waste, and to increase and normalize the peristaltic activity of the intestinal tract.

The business man who likes to hunt and to kill innocent animals; who runs, walks, and thinks, and perspires in the effort, is taking a good kind of re-creation--perhaps the best he knows; but the fat man who sits in a boat all day and catches fish that he cannot use, or slays a cart-load of ducks that he has deceived with a decoy, has received neither benefit nor re-creation; he has only yielded to his primeval instincts to secure his food by slaughter and has been merely entertained--probably debased.

True re-creation for the mental worker is manual work--labor in the open air that requires but little thought. Every business man who values the sacred heritage of health, should provide himself with a place where he can go one day out of each week and chop wood, prepare soil, plant or harvest something, get close to Mother Nature, and receive the blessings of her life-giving sun by day, and rest in her open arms at night. Men are but big children, and, like the child who cries and reaches for the bubble because it reflects the prismatic colors of the sun, most of the things for which they struggle are equally as worthless and deceptive.

Mental supremacy, which means the keenest sense of love, justice, and mercy, that great triad of all that is best in man, is all that really pays. If, at the close of every life, the question, "What has brought most happiness?" could be answered, it would be, "THE GRATITUDE OF MY FELLOW MEN." The average business pursuit is not conducive to this end. It is unfortunate that commercial and financial success are too often secured by methods that produce just the opposite results, therefore the whole life-work of the average man is really reduced to no higher object than that of securing food and shelter, which is the primitive occupation of the lowest forms of life.

One day in the week spent close to the soil with gentle cows and horses, affectionate cats and admiring dogs that have no "axe to grind," and one night every week spent in thought and reflection under the wilderness of worlds that whirl through the abyss of space, will sharpen the senses of love, justice, and mercy, give true diversion, true entertainment, true work, and true rest.

INDEX

ACETANILID Vol. Page composition of, II 358 effects of, II 358

ACIDITY sub, symptoms of, II 462 ---- remedy for, II 463 ---- diet in, II 464 super, chart indicating dis-eases caused by, I 9

ACIDS nitric, I 62 ---- properties of, I 63 hydrochloric, I 64 ---- uses of, I 65 ---- preparation of, I 66 ---- elements of, I 67 ---- purpose of, I 149 ---- formation of, I 149 bases of, I 68 ---- tests for, I 69 ---- neutralization of, I 70 Relation of bases to, I 69 organic, I 94 ---- properties of, I 94 acetic, I 95 ---- process of making, I 95 oxalic, I 97 lactic, I 97 malic, I 97 tartaric, I 97 citric, I 98 uric, in rheumatism, V 1179

AIR composition of, I 32 liquefaction of, I 35 and oxidation, V 1312 relative importance of food, water and, V 1313

ALBUMIN sources of, I 129 solubility of, I 129 coagulation of, I 129

ALCOHOL varieties of, I 91 effect of, II 367 a poison, II 368

ALDEHYDES and ethers, I 93

ALKALIS principles of neutralization of, I 71 rules governing neutralization of, I 71

AMIDO compounds, I 128

AMMONIA composition of, I 60 uses of, I 60

AMYLOPSIN properties of, I 154

APPENDIX (VERIFORM) dis-eases of (see Appendicitis), II 580 functions of, II 581

APPENDICITIS symptoms of, II 582 treatment of (mild cases), II 583 a natural remedy for, II 583 diet in, II 584 list of foods for, II 585 chronic cases of, II 586 ---- treatment for, II 587 ---- causes of, II 588 diet a factor in, II 589 coarse food a factor in, II 590 old diagnosis of, II 582 menus for, IV 1029

APPETITE lack of, IV 1081 difference between hunger and, IV 1081

ARTERIO-SCLEROSIS causes of, I 170 food in, I 171

ASSIMILATION definition of, III 630

ASTHMA described, II 519 causes of, II 533 symptoms of, II 533 remedy for, II 634 diet in, II 534 foods to eat in, II 535 foods to omit in, II 535

ATHLETES selection, combination and proportioning of food for, V 1188 summer diet for, V 1191 winter diet for, V 1192 suggestions regarding diet in exposure to extreme cold or for exertion, V 1201

AUTOINTOXICATION defined, I 247 bacteria in, I 247 meat a factor in, I 247

BACTERIA discussed, I 166 origin of, I 167 not all harmful, I 168 species of, I 168 producers of, I 168 fermentation produced by, I 169 growth of, I 169 meat a producer of, I 259