CHAPTER II.. On the Proper Quantity of Food.

ON THE PROPER QUANTITY OF FOOD.

Quantity to be proportioned to the wants of the system--Appetite indicates these--Cautions in trusting to appetite--General error in eating too much--Illustrations from Beaumont, Caldwell, Head, and Abercrombie--Mixtures of food hurtful chiefly as tempting to excess in quantity--Examples of disease from excess in servant-girls from the country, dressmakers, &c.--Mischief from excessive feeding in infancy--Rules for preventing this--Remarks on the consequences of excess in grown persons--Causes of confined bowels explained--And necessity of fulfilling the laws which God has appointed for the regulation of the animal economy inculcated, 218–250