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Title: How to Eat
A Cure for "Nerves"

Author: Thomas Clark Hinkle

Release Date: November 11, 2006 [EBook #19762]

Language: English

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HOW TO EAT

A CURE FOR "NERVES"

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"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.

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HOW TO EAT

A CURE FOR "NERVES"

By
THOMAS CLARK HINKLE, M.D.

RAND McNALLY & COMPANY
CHICAGO--NEW YORK

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Copyright, 1921, by
RAND McNALLY & COMPANY

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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

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"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

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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