Produced by Roger Frank and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net HOW TO EAT A CURE FOR "NERVES" ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "Whosoever wishes to eat much must eat little." Cornaro, in saying this, meant that if a man wished to eat for a great many days--that is, desired a long life--he must eat only a little each day. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- HOW TO EAT A CURE FOR "NERVES" By THOMAS CLARK HINKLE, M.D. RAND McNALLY & COMPANY CHICAGO--NEW YORK ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright, 1921, by RAND McNALLY & COMPANY ----------------------------------------------------------------------- THE CONTENTS PAGE I. WHERE THE TROUBLE LIES 13 II. HOW TO OVERCOME THE TROUBLE 31 III. RIGHT AND WRONG DIET FOR NERVOUS PEOPLE 55 IV. VALUE OF OUTDOOR LIFE AND EXERCISE 79 V. EFFECT OF RIGHT LIVING ON WORRY AND UNHAPPINESS 109 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "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 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- THE INTRODUCTION This author-physician's cure for "nerves" vividly recalls the simplicity of method employed in the complete restoration to health of one of olden time whose story has come ringing down the ages in the Book of Books. Naaman, captain of the host of the king of Syria, a mighty man of valor and honorable in the sight of all men, turned away in a rage when Elisha, the prophet of the Most High, prescribed for his dread malady a remedy so simple that it was despised in his eyes. But "his servants came near and said ... 'If the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldest thou not have done it?'" In "How to Eat" the author offers the sufferer from "nerves" a remedy as simple as that Elisha offered Naaman. He gives him an opportunity to profit by his well-tested knowledge that overeating and _rapidity_ in eating are ruinous to health and shorten life.