. The new hydropathic cook-book : with recipes for cooking on hygienic principles : containing also a philosophical exposition of the relations of food to health : the chemical elements and proximate constitution of alimentary principles : the nutritive properties of all kinds of aliments : the relative value of vegetable and animal substances : the selection and preservation of dietetic materials, etc., most parts of north-ern Euiope. It is but little employed in thiscountry, except in some parts of New Eng-land. It contains more gluten than any othergrain, except wheat, and hence ranks
. The new hydropathic cook-book : with recipes for cooking on hygienic principles : containing also a philosophical exposition of the relations of food to health : the chemical elements and proximate constitution of alimentary principles : the nutritive properties of all kinds of aliments : the relative value of vegetable and animal substances : the selection and preservation of dietetic materials, etc., most parts of north-ern Euiope. It is but little employed in thiscountry, except in some parts of New Eng-land. It contains more gluten than any othergrain, except wheat, and hence ranks next towheat for making fermented bread. Theamount of saccharine and mucilaginous mat-ters it contains has caused it to be extensivelyused in the manufacture of those perniciouspoisons, beer and whisky. Unbolted rye-meal is somewhat more lax-ative in cases of obstinate constipation thaneven wheat-meal. In Germany, rye-breadis called Schioartzbrot, or black bread. Thehardy peasantry of Sweden make rye-cakes,which are baked only twice a year and be-come almost»as hard as a board, a principalarticle of food. This grain is liable in some seasons to be affected with amorbid excrescence called spurred-rye, or ergot, which is medi-cinally or toxicologically a narcotic poison. Several epidemicshave prevailed in Europe in consequence of eating rye-breadmade of this diseased grain; and no little havoc has been. EAR OP BTB. 54 Hydropathic Cook-Book. Indian Corn—Corn Meal—Hominy—Samp—Green Corn. made with children and mothers In America, in consequenceof the introduction of this abnormal production into the allo-pathic materia medica. Indian Corn, or Maize (Hea Mays), was found native whenthis country was first discovered, and it now constitutes theFig. 28. principal bread corn of a large portion of the UnitedStates, Mexico, and a great part of Africa. The varie-ties chiefly cultivated in America are, the yellow inthe Northern, and the white in the Southern andWestern States. The
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