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    NOTICES OF BOOKS. 203

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    The Physiology Of Common Blackwood Life....

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    stomach ciently acid digestion , chymification will cease will ; if be the lab secretion orious of bil painful e be too . scanty , the food will lie like a , burdenand produce diarrhoea or sickness ; and so on to the end of

    of the which chapter depends . Let , on there be lex onl conditions y a little less and acid Di , gestion or a little which more to alkali the young , each

    comp , , and " 111 health -selected y is as food easy is as one it is source delightful of these , becomes evils . the . source . . Wan of misery t of fresh . air The action of the liver is affected

    and exercise is another source . particularly the livery by exercise best stable of ; aiid prescri and waterman all ptions who suffer . , horse A from walking -exercise biliousness excursion and should rowin too , especiall much g pay being their will y - incomparabl in be fees mountain of to the y

    districtsand with resolute avoidance of walking , great service to , the dyspeptic . ' It is important to bear in mind , moreover , that We than althoug shall bad h touch ventilation sedentary this habits ; those point are who in very the sit chapter injurious long , and on to _Inspiration sit the in Di bad gestion air , and are , they Suffocation sure are to less suffer so . . .

    on " The influence of the Nervous System is perhaps even more prominently rare manifested to meet than with that Indi of gestion any other among cause artisans of Indi , in gestion spite of . . their It is ill comparativel -cooked to meet food y ,

    with they their good may exposure be Digestion in to food all among weathers and gen the eral , and artisans habits other . of hardshi Protracted the brain ps ; , and no thoug almost it matter is ht as , concentrated rare how exact careful

    remark terrible effort in price the that directions . mere Nerve intellectual -tissue of Philosop is activity inordinatel hy , Science , when y expensive , or unaccompanied Art , . But always it b is y worth agitating y of a

    emotion , never seems to affect the Digestion , unless the effort be of an un-Envy usual tion , intensity A Despair , letter , . Sorrow bring Our ing , passions and bad even are sudden the destroy si Joy ht ing , immediatel of flames anything . y Anger disturb which , Ambition the painfull diges y - ,

    strongest affects . us , of a burst us incapable of temp of er , di or gesting news an , anxious a meal g care . If , will the sometimes food And be herein swallowed render the , be it will not be digested , or digested only at a vast expense . sensible may

    learned a lesson against a very common mistake committed by very gentl people y . to When take the , a food friend he is obstinat overwhelmed ely refuses with . grief 'Do _^ try we and try eat to a force mouthful him ; it is necessary for your strength ; you will fall ill . ' Perhap food s our will entreaties weaken

    a not succeed eace man strengthen un is ; til hungry he takes him , he a . little will In such eat food . . If cases ' When as in a Instinct support he liance will . may ' not with Error safel eat the y ! , be the he entreaties relied should on be of . friends left When in , j ) hunger promptscomp

    he takes a mealit will do him harm rather than good . There are , indeed , peop the and will th le at who . their Such thin appetite , k that le to is must eat a sign be in times of reasoned disrespect of sorrow with ; as is and if a appetite proof told that of wer want it e is subj of as feeling fo ect olish _to ,

    to refuse food when peop the appetite demands it , , as to eat it when the system gestion rebels " There against althoug is another it h . it direction onlbe in briefl which alluded the _Nervous to here System When influences we come Di to

    treat of , nervous henomena can y we shall y more particularly . examine the nature ' organic of Reflex mechanism Action p ; at present intimatel , it is enoug allied h to in say action , that that certain they parts are said of the to

    is _sympatlrise Whenever also secreted the with saliv each and a are is other profusel so irri . t All ation y secreted parts of y the of , the mucous the gastric aliment memb juice , ary rane ' can symp of al the athises sympathise stomach , ' and . . any

    indic In as increases m few ation own persons the of e an flow rso ; seem n irrit of I hav ated saliva thoroug e f stat . This hl e y of aware t is the e x fact stomach r of ience to it , be althoug , of which b i orne tand h they in it the mind serves mi presence g , ht the as well a more simp of note an so le . pe ;

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    Notices Of Books. 203

    NOTICES OF BOOKS . 203

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 1, 1860, page 203, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01111860/page/59/