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"Man is what he eats" is a German proverb, the propriety of which may be chiefly alliterative, though the apothegm of our greatest English physician goes even further: "If we could solve the problem of diet," Dr. Radcliffe tells us, "it would almost amount to the rediscovery of paradise. Wrong eating and drinking, and the breathing of vitiated air (which is gaseous food), these form the triple fountain-head of nearly all our diseases and our misery." - F.L. Oswald

"Health that intoxicates with its power and intensity, is within the reach of all who are willing to reason for themselves, and begin that activity of muscle, mind and body without which there can be no health, for stagnation always means disease and death. Activity is the law of life. A machine made of the finest steel will rust and decay if not used, and the human body is not stronger than steel. To those whose souls are rent by sorrow and pain, to those whose days and nights are heavily laden with the dull dispair of physical weakness and disease, this book is respectfully dedicated. May...

Had those islands any aborigines when discovered by Europeans? If there were natives, do any of them remain? The West Indies, or Antilles, consist of many hundreds, or even-reckoning keys or very small islands-several thousand islands varying in area from those which, like Cuba and Jamaica, number their square acres by the million, to the tiny key of half an acre or less. The greater number of these-indeed, all capable of supporting a population, with the exception of Barbados- contained inhabitants when first discovered. Barbados, though containing numerous evidences of former occupation,...