Habits and Their Influence.
Hungpr ought to bo atWd to the habits which figure in tho list of our bodily ways and" works. With greater or le=s regularity +he habit of demanding fccxl and drink ;s; s represented in our lives, iJie nervous system as well as the dige«tive organs participating in the action. A very practical point r rom a health point of i« illustrated by what I may call the ''bowel habit." Physicians know that when an individual grows careless over the functions of his bowels, constipation, representing the institution of an evil habit, ie certain io result. The daily call to relieve the bowels should never be nv>srlocied. Ii represents a bodily habit, which" i.-. of the highest importance for th<* maintenance of health. Once the bowel lc=cs its regularity ii is difficul' to reinstitute it. One distinguished doctor was in the habit of asking his patients that they should emlaavour to procure bowel-action rcgu'arly at a given timo each morning. He ir;?ißt?d that .- .habit should be formed of soliciting action for days, although no result follow-rd. Hia idea was that in time the bowel would respond to the call made upon it, and in his practice ho found this to be the case. The cure is at 'least worth reme-mbran.ee ; but the main point for us to consider is that no bodily habit of a healthy kind should ever be allowed to lapee.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2894, 1 September 1909, Page 76
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