Appendix 2 - Advent Review and Sabbath Herald

Editor - James White

August 25, 1863 – “Rise early;” Dr. Dio Lewis

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August 25, 1863, page 99 - “but most important of all, eat plain, coarse food,” Dio Lewis, M. D.

Score - Minor

Nov 3, 1863, page 184 – “Probably there is nothing …. That is more injurious to health than damp beds.”

Score – Minor

What 42 – Sleeping and Eating

The amount we eat should be in proportion to what we sleep.

Dec 8, 1863, page 11 – “guiding maxims for all human life. It is this , that if any do not sleep, neither should he eat: or other words, paraphrasing the maxim, there should be an exact ratio between the eating and sleeping of every individual, … eat first, and eat afterwards. Make the amount of the latter correspond with the amount of the former. ” W. T. Vail M. D.

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Dec 8, 1863, page 11 “No human constitution can stand an un-remitted exercise of the brain and nervous system, day and night, for any length of time, or any considerable approach to such an exercise, without breaking down.” W. T. Vail M. D.

Comment – Mental work is not dangerous to the health. It is emotional strain that is dangerous.

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Dec 8, 1863, page 11 “No human constitution can stand a loss of sleep; … surly hinders the return to perfect sleep” W. T. Vail M. D.

Score – Significant

Appendix 2 - Advent Review and Sabbath Herald

Editor - James White

Dec 8, 1863, page 11 “and nothing more surly hinders the return of perfect …. rest” (inferred to be a health hazard)W. T. Vail M. D.

Score - Significant

Dec 5, 1863, page 15 – “In and winter and summer nothing can be better worn next the skin than a loose, red woolen shirt; loose for it has room to move on the skin, thus causing a titillation which draws the blood to the surface and keeps it there,” Dr. Hall, form his Journal of Health.

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June 28, 1864, page 35 – “Cheerfulness - Sorrow can not long exist in the mind without moor or less injury to the person indulging it.”

Score – Significant

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Appendix 3 – Lectures on the Science of Human Life

Sylvester Graham

Published from lectures delivered in the 1840s

I. GENERAL PRINCIPLES

What 1 – Cause of Disease

Civilization is the cause of disease

Page 17-25 – “It is true, that disease multiplies in society in proportion as man removes from a pure state of nature, and becomes more and more an artificial being in habits and circumstances.”

Page 18-28 – “As society advances ... disease becomes more numerous and frequent,"

Comment – The “state of nature” has been defined as having no clothes or house, eating from what is available on trees and drinking water from streams. Civilisation predisposes to degenerative diseases, but this is greatly compensated by the increase in health from avoidance of nutritional and infective diseases.

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Why 1 – Energies of life (What 1)

We are born with a quantity of “energies of life,” which all processes of living slowly use up. Page 19-33 – “The consequences is - as a general fact - that, while in health, mankind prodigally waste the resources of their constitution, as if the energies of life were inexhaustible; and when, by

the violation or by the continuance of their excesses, they have brought on acute or chronic disease” Page 352-875 – “The actions of all extrinsic laws and agents upon us tends to exhaust our vital properties; and all our intrinsic actions and operations, both voluntary and involuntary, have exhausting effects upon the acting organs.”

Page 352-877 – “yet every digestive process of the stomach, every respiratory action of the lungs, every contraction of the heart, draws something from the ultimate and unreplenishable resources of organic vitality; and consequently the more freely and prodigally we expend the vital properties of our organs, the more rapidly we wear out the constitutional powers of replenishment, and exhaust the limited stock of life.”

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Why 2 – Temperature Control (What 1)

Body heat depends on the function of our nerves and oxygen, but is not due to a chemical reaction. Page 190-488 – “oxygen is certain essential to the calorific function or the production of animal heat, but not as a chemical element depending on its chemical properties and combinations.”

Page 190489 – “Animal heat .... is most unquestionably a result of vital function, depending immediately on vital properties and functional powers of the nerves.... Whatever, therefore, impairs the health of the system of nerves, diminishes the power of the living body to regulate its own temperature.”

Comment – Body heat does come from a chemical reaction of the oxygen we breathe.

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What 2 – Basics of Disease W 1 A 1 C 1 J 1 K 2

What and when we eat, breathe, sleep, exercise and our cleanliness and emotions influence our health.

Page 427-1072 – “By introducing into the nose, mouth, lungs, and stomach, substances unfriendly to life, and by introducing into the stomach, proper alimentary substances in an improper condition or quantity, or at improper time, - by error in regard to exercise, rest, sleeping, cleanliness, clothing, etc, - by undue exercise of the mental faculties and over-excitements of mind, - by an inordinate exercise of the passions, such as love, fear, anger, etc, - and by many other causes within the compass of man's voluntary agency,”