An original and illustrated physiological and physiognomical chart . body. 6. Your vigour of digestion is only fair, and unless discretion is used,you will suffer. It would be well to cultivate this organ of the body. 20 THE STOIMACH. 7. With due care j^ou need not suffer from indigestion. Bear in mindthat all polypes, animalcules, and monads feed slowly and digest well. 8. Your organs of nutrition may remain good if care be taken in rapidity, be careful in quality, and leave off with an appetite. Byfollowing this rule you may secure the famous Thomas Parrs (**01dParrs ) motto—* A
An original and illustrated physiological and physiognomical chart . body. 6. Your vigour of digestion is only fair, and unless discretion is used,you will suffer. It would be well to cultivate this organ of the body. 20 THE STOIMACH. 7. With due care j^ou need not suffer from indigestion. Bear in mindthat all polypes, animalcules, and monads feed slowly and digest well. 8. Your organs of nutrition may remain good if care be taken in rapidity, be careful in quality, and leave off with an appetite. Byfollowing this rule you may secure the famous Thomas Parrs (**01dParrs ) motto—* A long life and a happy one. 9. Your powers of alimentation and assimilation are excellent. Youare not liable to pine for the want of materials for growth and renewal,as you can eat the most substantial food with impunity. You love to livewell and have strength in your blood. The gastric follicles and pepticglands are healthy, and secrete an abundance of gastric juice ; thecolumnar epithelium of your stomach is healthy and active. Hence yourstomach is Charles VI., Emperor of West Austria, who died vrith As the result of good digestion, you have generally a very goodflow of animal spirits. The secernent and absorbent systems are ablyperforming their respective duties; your body is well nourished. 11. Anything you eat is digested thoroughly, and appropriated pro-perly to the use of each bodily organ; hence you are not liable to becomea dyspeptic. You have a superabundance of the materials of nutrition. 12. Your digestion is equal to that of an ostrich or an anaconda;viands never trouble you after they are consumed; your blood is rich incarbon and nitrogen. Kone perform more thoroughly than you the pro-cess of chymification. You may safely adopt the sagacious advice of thesage old king of physicians, Esculapius, There is not a luxury that isinimical to vitality, if partaken of in moderation and not too frequently. THE LIVER. m A. To Cultivate the Healthy
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