The Stomach Medically and Morally Considered. By L. J. Beale,
Medical Officer, St. Martin-in-the-Fields. (Efarrison.)—A very sensible, but rather verbose series of lectures on the best modes of maintaining the health of the stomach, and thereby, as Mr. Beale maintains, of the mind. Mr. Beale's theory may be summed up very nearly in the word "moderation," moderation in eating as well as drinking, but the follow- ing is both new and wise :—"But under all circumstances make water your only drink twice every week, and you will find your health the better. It is the daily and unbroken habit of taking wine or beer that lays the foundation of stomach, liver, and kidney disease, while only an occa- sional fast would break the chain and prevent the foundation of those and other diseases which shorten life, and prove my position that the stomach is the source of most of our evils of life." Mr. Beale, though not an advocate for total abstinence, under all circumstances recom- mends it most decidedly for the nervous, the class who temporarily seem the most benefited by the use of liquor.
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