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as in jujubes, and the like, probably acts topically as a soothing 
application to the irritated mucous lining membrane within the 
stomach, allaying its morbid sensitiveness, and thus disposing 
it to a more regular performance of its functions in dealing with 
the next meal.” After the same manner putrescent food which 
is retarded within the intestines, may be corrected by Cinnamon 
lozenges; and constipation may be obviated by Liquorice 
lozenges. 
At New York two tabloid restaurants have been opened 
of late, and with success so far in that busy, bustling city 
where life is all hurry, and time with most men means money. 
All manner of liquid foods, such as soups, beef extracts, milky 
preparations, cocoa, and the like, are provided in these restaurants, 
as compressed into lozenges, and capsules, to be sucked, or 
swallowed. These may consist of anything, from a cut off the 
joint, together with vegetables, and a sweet to follow ; likewise o! 
fish, game, mutton chops, or bread and cheese. Three lozenges 
taken in three minutes are said to be equal to an ordinary 
meal which would occupy three-quarters of an hour; and a 
single capsule can keep a business man going as long as a 
hastily-snatched mutton chop, with potatoes. The lozenge tea, 
and the tabloid supper, may be similarly tried for a change, 
so as to save time over these meals. 
But. as to exhibiting food profitably in the form of lozenges, 
to attempt this is quite a delusion. Dr. Hutchison explains the 
matter thus: “If we drive off all the water from five ounces 
of meat, there will be left behind not more than an ounce of what 
is practically pure proteid nourishment. And this proceeding 
may be regarded as the maximum degree of concentration which 
can be wrought on proteid food. In other words, an ounce of 
any artificial food can never represent more than five ounces of 
lean meat. Any more concentrated proteid nutriment than that 
is a chemical impossibility. And one can realize hence the absurd 
pretensions of such alleged sustenance as is attributed to beef 
lozenges, and the like, two or three at a time. Even if these did 
consist of pure proteid (which they never do), it would require 
at least an ounce of them to be equal in value to five ounces ot 
fresh meat: so that the amount of nourishment contained in a 
single lozenge of the sort must be very small indeed.” 
LUNCHEON (See Meats). 
