We have described many of the unhygienic practises common to-day as

direct results of upsetting Nature"s equilibrium
We have described many of the unhygienic practises common to-day as
direct results of upsetting Nature"s equilibrium. Others are indirect
results. These latter practises may be described as attempts to remedy
the evils of the former, the 'remedies,' however, being often worse than
the diseases. Much of our drugging, some of our wrong food habits and
not a little of our immorality are simply crude and unscientific
attempts to compensate for disturbances or deviations from a normal
life. We wake ourselves up, as it were, with caffein, move our bowels
with a cathartic, induce an appetite with a cocktail, seek rest from the
day"s fatigue and worries in nicotin, and put ourselves to sleep with an
opiate. In these practises we are evidently trying in wrong ways to
compensate respectively for insufficient sleep, insufficient
peristalsis, indigestion, overfatigue, and insomnia--evils due, as
previously explained, to upsetting Nature"s balance, between work,
play, rest and sleep.