If the diet is such that irritants are manufactured in the
alimentary tract and absorbed into the blood, and then excreted through
the skin, where enough irritation is produced to cause disease, it is
useless to treat with powders and salves.
Correct the dietetic errors and the skin will cure itself. Specialists
in skin diseases often fail because they treat this organ as an
independent entity, instead of considering it as a part of the body
whose health depends mostly upon the general health.
CHAPTER XXII.
EXERCISE.
Nature demands of us that we use our mental and physical powers in order
to get the best results. Man was made to be active. In former times he
had to earn his bread in the sweat of his face or starve. Now we have
evolved, or is it a partial degeneration, into a state where a sharp
mind commands much more of the means of sustenance than does physical
exertion. The consequence is that many of those equipped with the
keenest minds fail to keep their bodies active. This helps to lessen
their resistance and produces early death.
Some exercise is needed and the question is, how much is necessary and
how is it to be taken so that it will not degenerate into drudgery?
There are very few with enough persistence to continue certain
exercises, no matter how beneficial, if they become a grind.
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