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in a splint. Besides, the suppression of albuminoid food will prevent 
the development of further fermentation and allow the digestive 
functions to be restored to their normal state. This is what we are 
doing every day, and we may say that we possess in a milky diet the 
most powerful and efficacious means of treating and curing that so 
common disease called dyspepsia. 
As far as wines are concerned, you may see that I have given them 
a large share in the drawing up of my bill of fare. And I believe that 
I showed proof of extensive artistic knowledge about the choice and 
distribution of their different kinds. White wines strike up the march 
and sprinkle the soup and fish ; Bordeaux wines accompany the solid 
joints ; Burgundy wines are associated with game, and Champagne with 
the dessert. All these wines are endowed with particular bouquets 
according to their variety, but the principle base of every one is alcohol, 
which enters into their composition in the proportion of 7 to 15 per 
cent. They contain also tannic acid and salts of potash, etc. Absorbed 
in small quantities during meals, it is a known fact that they possess a 
salutary action in assisting the secretion of gastric and pancreatic 
juices. And they contribute to cheerfulness of mind and consequently 
place the guests in excellent moral disposition, banishing from their 
brain all cares and preoccupation, which, you will confess, is worth 
consideration. 
We know now, all the ingredients composing our alimentation. 
Here they are briefly enumerated : 
1. Albuminoids, especially derived from the animal kingdom and 
the principal element of which is nitrogen united to carbon, hydrogen 
and oxygen. 
2. Ternary substances containing only carbon, oxygen and 
hydrogen without azote, they are represented by sugars and feculents. 
3 Fats deprived of oxygen, being consequently composed of carbon 
alone and hydrogen. 
4 Salts, which we meet in food supplied by both the animal and 
vegetable kingdoms. These are the materials destined to the nutrition 
of the body. 
Now, what is the want of the organism ? The human body is a 
living machine having two different kinds of functions viz. the functions 
