The Twentieth Century Home Cook Book

Practical recipes and household wisdom from 1906 — when the icebox was high technology and dinner had nine courses.

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How To Use Disinfect-

I. To Preserve Health and Save Doctors' Bills.

HE preservation of health is of far greater importance than to dose a man after he is sick. To gratify "a false hunger," or slake " a false thirst," are only provocatives to disease. It should be remembered that we live not by what we eat, but by what we digest. Neither Walpole, who thought that with diet and patience all diseases might be cured; nor Montesquieu, who held that health, purchased by vigorously watching over diet, was but a tedious disease, was far from the mark. But a wise discretion in eating is better than all.

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