Lectures On The Science Of Human Life - Softcover

Sylvester Graham

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0461979128 ISBN 13: 9780461979121

Publisher: HardPress

Synopsis

Lectures On The Science Of Human Life: Containing Three Lectures--Eighth, The Organs And Their Uses ; Thirteenth, Man's Physical Nature And The Structure Of His Teeth ; Fourteenth, The Dietetic Character Of Man by Sylvester Graham. The text collects three lectures that lay out a holistic, vitalistic theory of the human organism and its needs. It begins with how hunger motivates action and how mastication, insalivation, and swallowing operate, then traces gastric digestion, absorption, and chylification, and continues to respiration, circulation, and animal heat as integrated, life-sustaining processes. It argues that physical health depends on nervous vigor, diet, and the balance of digestion and elimination, and it critiques chemical explanations of digestion. The work also surveys the diets of ancient peoples and modern groups (New Zealanders, Pampa Indians, Arabs, Quakers) to argue for a natural, simple, vegetable-based diet as the path to longevity and moral vitality, while condemning narcotics and stimulants. The Fourteenth lecture contends that man is naturally frugivorous, and that the best nourishment is plain, simple foods prepared without excessive culinary alteration.

Edition details

• Publisher: HardPress
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0461979128
• ISBN 13: 9780461979121
• Binding: Paperback