12 MEALS MEDICINAL. 
future formation is likewise prevented) are still but imperfectly 
understood by the average medical practitioner.” “Give us 
good Cooks,” writes Dr. Kellog, of Michigan, “ intelligent cooks, 
cooks who are thoroughly educated, and then the cure of 
nine-tenths of all the dyspeptics may be guaranteed, without 
money, and without medicinal treatment.” Again, “ those bodily 
infirmities to which so often a constitutional bias is inherited 
from birth, such as consumption, rheumatism, and gout, may 
be prevented from development, or held in complete check, by 
the discipline of diet pursued from childhood, and with a healthful 
relish. Instead of having to learn painfully, and laboriously 
throughout the proverbial first forty years of his life, how to 
become his own physician (or to remain a fool), every man may 
take practical heed to the lessons which our pages shall plainly 
teach, and may steer clear of peril throughout a prosperous 
physical course of years from infancy to the said meridian of life, 
and onwards to a robust old age.” 
“ A good Coke,” saith Dr. Andrew Boorde, 1536, in his Dyetary 
of Helthe, “is half a Physycyon.” 
* Fair woman, could your soul but view 
The intimate relation 
’Twixt food and fate, there’d be a new, 
And higher dispensation. 
Could you but see for “ destiny ” 
A synonym in dinners, 
And what the kitchen’s alchemy 
Can make of mortal sinners, 
You'd leave odd fads, and Jearn to bake 
A loaf, and cook a “ tater” ; 
To roast a joint, or broil a steak, 
Than which no art is greater ! 
* Man cannot live by bread alone,’ 
°Tis well and wisely spoken ; 
But make that bad, he’ll die unknown, 
And give the world no token 
Of high ambitious potencies, 
Or genius’ slumbering fires, 
Thi in him through galaxies 
Of grand illustrious sires ! 
‘Then all ye dames, and maidens fair, 
Who burn with high ambition, 
Who crave to nobly da your share 
To better man’s condition, 
You’d give us, could your soul but view 
ite, —ere —a new 
And higher dispensation... 
