Hydropathy for the People: With Plain Observations on Drugs, Diet, Water, Air, and Exercise (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Hydropathy for the People: With Plain Observations on Drugs, Diet, Water, Air, and Exercise

For months previously to my adopting the teetotal prin ciple, I had thought I should be necessitated to decline the ministry altogether, in consequence of a settled pain in my left breast; but after three months' abstinence it began sensibly to decline, and in six months it finally left me. My general health improved, and I was enabled to endure much more fatigue, and to do my work with much more pleasure. But still my dyspeptic complaint did not leave me. I was troubled with constipation and headache, especially when I studied more than usual, so that I was under the necessity Of taking aperient medicine, never less than once a month, and Often once or twice a week.

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