The Royal Road To Health

Excerpt from The Royal Road to Health, or the Secret of Health Without Medicine Health is such an inestimable blessing, that the individual who shall devise means to preserve it, or to restore it, when lost, is deserving of all the thanks and honors that a grateful community can bestow. Unfortunately, there are very few who estimate life at its true value, until they are confronted with the grim destroyer, Death. No one can fully appre ciate the priceless blessings of health, until they feel that it has slipped from their grasp. The oft quoted phrase, Health is Wealth, is truly a con crete expression of wisdom, for without the former, the latter is well nigh an impossibility. But its interference with the activities of life, is one of the least evils of sickness, for pafect lmzzt/z is the very salt and Spice of life without it existence is, weary, stale, flat and unprofitable. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

This edition has been completely revised and much of it rewritten, and, while the essential principles remain unchanged, some slight departures from previously expressed opinions may be noted; for in the years that have elapsed since the first edition saw the light, some notable advances have been made in rational therapeutics and dietetics, and no one can afford to lag behind the car of Progress.