. DISCOVERY A MONTHLY POPULAR JOURNAL OF KNOWLEDGE v^ Vol. IV, No. 41. MAY 1923. PRICE Is. NET. DISCOVERY. A Monthly Popular Journal of Know- ledge. Edited by Edward Liveing, , Rothersthorpe, Northampton, to whom all Editorial Communications should be addressed. (Dr. A. S. Russell continues to act as Scientific Adviser.) Published by John Murray, 50A Albemarle Street, London, , to whom all Business Communications should be addressed. Advertisement Office: 34 Ludgate Chambers, 32 Ludgate Hill, London, Annual Subscription, 125. bd. post free ; Single numbers, IS. net ; postage, 2d.
. DISCOVERY A MONTHLY POPULAR JOURNAL OF KNOWLEDGE v^ Vol. IV, No. 41. MAY 1923. PRICE Is. NET. DISCOVERY. A Monthly Popular Journal of Know- ledge. Edited by Edward Liveing, , Rothersthorpe, Northampton, to whom all Editorial Communications should be addressed. (Dr. A. S. Russell continues to act as Scientific Adviser.) Published by John Murray, 50A Albemarle Street, London, , to whom all Business Communications should be addressed. Advertisement Office: 34 Ludgate Chambers, 32 Ludgate Hill, London, Annual Subscription, 125. bd. post free ; Single numbers, IS. net ; postage, 2d. Binding cases for Vol. Ill, 1922, are now ready. Price 2s. 6d. net each; postage, gd. Editorial Notes The wise man looks on food as one of the reasonable pleasures of existence ; the learned man as an ever elusive mystery of chemical changes ; the diet- reformer as a kind of obstacle race, where obscure vetoes forbid a straightforward and hopeful progress from soup to savoury. In these daj^s, when the pro- duce of the uttermost earth comes to our tables in tins and bottles, when nearly every food has under- gone a course of more or less drastic " treatment " before it is deemed suitable, the wise man might well take a leaf from the book of his learned and his appre- hensive fellows, and consider more deeply the merits of his diet. "Hare, a black meat," said old Robert Burton.^ " Melancholy and hard of digestion, it breeds incuhus, often eaten, and causeth fearful ; But how would he have looked on rabbit which came frozen from the Antipodes ! '' That which Pytha- goras said to his scholars of old may be for ever applied to all melancholy men—A fabis abstinite— eat no peas or ; Pork is "too moist, full of humours "—and with what terrible denunciations might he have visited them, had he met them united in a tin ? True, Robert Burton must have been a delicate eater, for only carp—and that not with certainty, for is
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