452 MEALS MEDICINAL. 
pith of an oxe-back, a good quantity. Wash it, clean, and dry 
it; take ye skinne off, and beat it, and strain it with wine, or 
ale ; take two spoonfuls of oatmeal searced (siited), and juice of 
comfer (comfrey), and clary, knottgrass and plantain; take 
half a pinte of their juice, ye yolkes of two egges; make it in ye 
form of a caudle. Season it with cinnamon, and nutmeg, and 
sugar.” Cooks of to-day find that the distinguishing virtues 
of marrow on toast are emphasized by adding a few drops of 
the best anchovy sauce. Beef marrow remains fluid at a lower 
temperature than any of the ordinary animal fats, so that it is 
more readily absorbed into the system as nutritive food. 
Recently there has been introduced by the manufacturing 
chemists an excellent combination of red bone marrow, malt 
extract, fresh eggs, including the shells for their lime salts, and 
fresh lemon-juice. In the seventeenth century the Restoration 
of the Royalty after the end of the Commonwealth, brought with 
it a revival of French cookery, under the guidance of Giles Rose, 
chief cook to Charles II. He restored marrow pies, and bacon 
tarts, but only for a short time; since when they have disappeared. 
The modern way for obtaining marrow dietetically is to take a 
split beef marrow bone, remove the marrow, and put this into a 
stewpan with enough cold water to cover it: add a little salt, 
and just scald it; next take it up, and cut it through into nice 
thick slices about a quarter of an inch thick; the marrow thus 
prepared may then be used for cooking, or other service. Quite 
lately a claim for bone marrow (as chemically myocene) 1S 
advanced by certain doctors, to be employed towards curing 
middle-ear deafness, such marrow being antiseptic, and “an 
internal secretion of vital importance to the economy.” It is 
said to be powerfully remedial against the injurious action of 
various bacteria which invade, and become morbidly active 
within the body, and set up mischief such as the deafness in 
question, if a deficiency of this internal secretion occurs. The 
bone-marrow oil is likewise to be employed topically within the 
ear, together with the use of gentle massage. 
MARROW, VEGETABLE, Cucurbita ovifera, (See VEGETABLES), 
MEALS. 
Tuat diseases can be treated medicinally throughout their 
course from first to last by food constituents taken at meals, 
