10 MEALS MEDICINAL. 
some measure of his released physical energy, together with an 
increase of intellect, became wrought in man, and this lessening 
of the digestive strain had more than one marked effect on his 
body, and physical aspect. The heavy, protruding jaws, once so 
necessary for masticating huge quantities of coarse innutritious 
food, became smaller, and more receding; whilst along with 
this recession of the jaw there was produced a progressive, or 
forward, and upward growth of the brain—the lower giving place 
to the higher—the animal to the man: whereby we see that the 
advancement of the human race has been largely the result of 
diet. Manifestly, then, the course of our own evolution depends 
on ourselves ; we may, according to our own conduct day by 
day, be building up a better body, and a better mind, or else 
one that shall be worse than the fair promise of the original 
germ. And, therefore, it is self-evident that the philosophy of 
preparing such materials as go to build up, and renew the body, 
and the brain, must be well worthy of the most careful study ; 
which philosophy is the Chemistry of Cookery. Right deservedly, 
then, by a parity of reasoning, does Dr. Rabagliatti, of Brad- 
ford make it to-day a leading aphorism of modern medicine, that 
“ Morbi ii qui non mederi victu possunt, viv, vel maxima cum 
difficultate, medendi sunt ””—‘ those diseases which cannot be 
cured by victuals are scarcely curable anyhow.” 
Moreover, this substitution of medicinal constituents for cures 
by foods, instead of by physic, has its humorous side ; at least so 
think our American cousins, (who are up to date in such respects), 
with their ‘‘ Vassar Pie” :— 
“Give me a spoonful of oleo, ma, 
And the sodium alkali, 
For I’m going to make a pie, mamma, 
I'm going to make a pie : 
Poor John will be hungry and tired, my ma, 
And his tissues will decompose ; 
So give me some grains of phosphate, 
With carbon, and cellulose. 
Now hand me a chunk of casein, ma, 
in a shorten the thermic fat ; 
nd pass me the ox: bottle, ma, 
And look at the (eating 
And, if the electric oyen’s cold, 
wie turn it on half an ohm, 
or I want to have supper ready, 
As soon as John cate face! Soe 
