The hydropathic encyclopedia : a system of hydropathy and hygiene in eight parts ..designed as a guide to families and students, and a text-book for physicians . ofstrength, and sustain entire privation of food with much less sufferingman flesh-eaters. The appetite of vegetable-eaters is invariably good,and food has always a keen relish, while it often fails with flesh-eatersrequiring frequent changes of dishes, or a variety of seasonings, torender it palatable. Digestion with the vegetarian is unattended withthat disturbance, heat, irritation, oppression of the stomach, and dull-ness or drows
The hydropathic encyclopedia : a system of hydropathy and hygiene in eight parts ..designed as a guide to families and students, and a text-book for physicians . ofstrength, and sustain entire privation of food with much less sufferingman flesh-eaters. The appetite of vegetable-eaters is invariably good,and food has always a keen relish, while it often fails with flesh-eatersrequiring frequent changes of dishes, or a variety of seasonings, torender it palatable. Digestion with the vegetarian is unattended withthat disturbance, heat, irritation, oppression of the stomach, and dull-ness or drowsiness of the head, which flesh-eaters generally experi-ence after dinner, and which some physiologists, on the mistakensupposition that it was natural, have called the fever of , sleepiness, and mental stupidity, so common after a fullmeal with flesh-eaters, aro wholly unknown to vegetarians, when theirother habits are correct. These can resume any bodily or mentallabor immediately after a meal, with incomparably less discomfort, andgreater immunity from evil consequences, than can flesh-eutcrs. DIETETIC CHARACTER OF MAN 411 Fig. THE HITMAN SKELETON COMPARE/ WITH THAT OF THE ORANG-OUTANO 41J DIETETICS. All the mental passions of the vegetarian are more governable andbetter balanced, more easily regulated by the judgment and controlledby the will, less violent, but more enduring than those of firmest and most vigorous structures of body are found amongvegetable-eaters, in proof of which we need only refer to the toilingmillions of Europe and the Eastern nations. Vegetable-eaters possessnn elasticity and flexibility of moving fibres, and a tenuity and purityof circulating fluids, which enable them to work their bodies and brainsmore severely, more constantly, with greater ease and facility, and w:thless wear and tear, than flesh-eaters can; and when fatigued byexcessive exertion of body or mind, they will recover, by resting, in amuch le
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