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in his experiments with fifteen soldiers, four professors and six athletes, 

 during nine months, gradually reduced the amount of proteid until he got 

 it down so small he could not eat any meat at all ; the last piece of meat he 

 was eating was about as big as your thumb nail — a little piece of bacon. 

 I met Prof. Chittenden recently, and he told me he was satisfied the body 

 could be healthily and perfectly maintained with non- flesh dietary; that 

 vegetables provide for the body all the sustenance it needs. The fact is, 

 when you avoid eating an excess of proteid, you cannot eat meat. Even 

 potatoes contain all the proteid, everything you want; the same is true of 

 corn bread; rye, wheat, barley, etc., have an excess of proteid. Then there 

 is milk and eggs if you want; they are not the very best foods for adults, 

 but come in far ahead of flesh foods at any rate. 



Just a word about the medical uses of fruits. After what I said about 

 the free use of fruits, I should say further: Fruit should enter largely into 

 the bill of fare, should be part of every single meal. One of the great ad- 

 vantages of fruit is that it is raw food. Fruit is of all substances the one 

 natural food for man. 



I got a monkey some years ago, and tried to see what different things 

 we could get him to eat. I found he did not like anything so well as fruit. 

 Monkeys are so nearly like men, you know; they look like them, and act like 

 them to a remarkable extent. They are so nearly like human beings that I 

 thought it would be safer to follow the monkey than to follow some people 

 I knew. And so I studied the monkey. I watched him to see what he ate; 

 and I said, first of all, he did not chew; but I found I was in error about that, 

 I gave him some cherries, and he seized those as fast as he could get them, 

 kept putting them in his mouth so fast I thought certainly he would choke 

 to death. I said certainly this monkey does not chew. A little while after 

 I was noticing the monkey again. I saw he had large bunches on his cheeks. 

 I said, "Dear me! this monkey is getting tuberculosis." I watched him very 

 sharp; pretty soon I saw him put his paw up and hit one of those bunches 

 and it disappeared. In his great cheek pouches here he had stored up those 

 cherries, and now he was taking them in between his teeth and chewing 

 them up thoroughly. 



There isn't anything that pays so well as chemng. You farmers sometimes 

 put some gravel in the feed box of the horse so he has to pick the oats out. 

 You adopt other means of keeping the horse from bolting his dinner, and 

 then you go straight in the house and bolt the dinner yourself. (Laughter) 

 It will help you to put some gravel in the manger just as much as it will the 

 horse. You must chew thoroughly. Gladstone was a great chewer. And 

 Prof. Fletcher has recently been calling our attention to chewing. Fletcher 

 has come out as the apostle of chewing. He has rediscovered chewing. 

 When I was down east a few days ago I found Mr. Fletcher had been down 

 at Yale and had all the professors out, and all the students out, and he 

 showed them how to chew. And he came down to New York and he had 

 a great meeting in the Academy of Medicine and got all the great doctors 

 of New York— I understood the academy was filled and they had to open 

 the back doors and filled up the hall with the doctors that came there to 

 watch Mr. Fletcher chew, to find out how to chew. It is really a sort of 

 lost art with us; but if we are going to eat fruit we must chew. Fruit is 

 something that is worth chewing. Chew^ the fruit until you get all the fla^sjor 

 out of it. 



Pawlow made a wonderful discovery, that our food must be palatable. 

 If we chew the food in the mouth, the stomach produces a juice just the 



