Contents
| I. WHERE THE TROUBLE LIES | [12] |
| II. HOW TO OVERCOME THE TROUBLE | [29] |
| III. RIGHT AND WRONG DIET FOR NERVOUS PEOPLE | [53] |
| IV. VALUE OF OUTDOOR LIFE AND EXERCISE | [77] |
| V. EFFECT OF RIGHT LIVING ON WORRY AND UNHAPPINESS | [107] |
"Nature, desirous to preserve man in good health as long as possible, informs him herself how he is to act in time of illness; for she immediately deprives him, when sick, of his appetite in order that he may eat but little."
—Cornaro
THE INTRODUCTION
This author-physician's cure for "nerves" vividly recalls the simplicity of method employed in the complete restoration to health of one of olden time whose story has come ringing down the ages in the Book of Books. Naaman, captain of the host of the king of Syria, a mighty man of valor and honorable in the sight of all men, turned away in a rage when Elisha, the prophet of the Most High, prescribed for his dread malady a remedy so simple that it was despised in his eyes. But "his servants came near and said ... 'If the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldest thou not have done it?'"
In "How to Eat" the author offers the sufferer from "nerves" a remedy as simple as that Elisha offered Naaman. He gives him an opportunity to profit by his well-tested knowledge that overeating and rapidity in eating are ruinous to health and shorten life.