How to Live Long; Or, Health Maxims, Physical, Mental, and Moral (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1875 edition. Excerpt: ... the dumb-bell with putrefactive maladies and malignant pustules; the united-headed or chain-shaped ever present in carbuncle, cholera, diarrhoea, and the like. So the human character and constitution are shaped by the surroundings of young life; if these are a pure atmosphere and a busy life, there will follow health, vigour, and success; but if the child be enveloped in filth, with the belongings of idle and vicious associates, he grows up into a deformity, moral, mental, and physical. 902. We may be sure that nothing was created in vain. Scarce a day passes that human research does not develope uses for things which were never before dreamed of. Boracic acid thrown over grass destroys it promptly and permanently, and kills, instantly, millions of microscopic animalcules. One part of a ten per cent, solution of it will keep eight times as much milk sweet for a week; lint steeped in a hot, saturated solution of it prevents putrefactive discharges in sores, wounds, and amputations. Everywhere around us do we find that many things can be adapted to many uses, and all for man's benefit, by the beneficence of the Omnipotent One. 903. Once get a child to save money from principle, for legitimate purposes, and he is safe for all time, for you thereby teach him the lesson of economy and self-denial, which are at the foundation of success and fortune. 904. It would do the living world more good to give the dead an honest kick for their misdeeds than to pass them over in silence. On the other hand, the praising of the living while they are struggling for the accomplishment of great ends would many a time be an inspiration to them, and would bear them onward with redoubled speed to triumphant success. 905. To give a child or any one else more for doing a...