. The funny side of physic : or, The mysteries of medicine, presenting the humorous and serious sides of medical practice. An exposé of medical humbugs, quacks, and charlatans in all ages and all countries. e fish-eating Esqui-maux,* or coast-men, the more intellectual for having madefish their principal diet? In five hundred pounds of wheat, there are, — Muscle material, ...... Bone (and teeth) material, Fat principle, ...... Ground to a fine flour : — Muscle material, ..... Bone material, ...... Fat principle, ...... Cereal food will keep off hunger longer than animal experience I h
. The funny side of physic : or, The mysteries of medicine, presenting the humorous and serious sides of medical practice. An exposé of medical humbugs, quacks, and charlatans in all ages and all countries. e fish-eating Esqui-maux,* or coast-men, the more intellectual for having madefish their principal diet? In five hundred pounds of wheat, there are, — Muscle material, ...... Bone (and teeth) material, Fat principle, ...... Ground to a fine flour : — Muscle material, ..... Bone material, ...... Fat principle, ...... Cereal food will keep off hunger longer than animal experience I have found that buckwheat will satisfy thecravings of hunger longer than wheat, rye, or corn. B. Welton, of Boston, says, — A lady of culture, refinement, and unusual powers ofobservation and comparison, became a widow. Reduced * Esquimaux Hospitality. — Dr. Kane relates that one day, worn out byfatigue, lie turned into an Esquimaux hut to get a little sleep. His good-natured hostess covered him up with some of her own habiliments, and gavehim her baby for a pillow; which, Dr. Spooner says, was a living illustrationof the kindness of woman. 78 pounds. 85 a 12 «< 65 (< 30 tt 10 t(. SIGNS OF CIVILIZATION. BUCKWHEAT CAKES. G03 from affluence to poverty, with a large family of small chil-dren dependent on her manual labor for daily food, shemade a variety of experiments to ascertain what articlescould be purchased for the least mone}, and would, at thesame time, go the farthest, by keeping her children longestfrom crying for something to eat. She soon discovered thatwhen they ate buckwheat cakes and molasses, they werequiet for a longer time than after eating any other kind offood/ A distinguished indue of the United States District Courtobserved that when he took buckwheat cakes for breakfast,he could sit on the bench the whole day without being un-comfortably hungry. If the cakes were omitted, he feltobliged to take a lunch about noon. Buckwheat cakes are au
Size: 1296px × 1928px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1870, booksubjectmedicine, bookyear187
