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be sick. And something will happen to your horse, or cow, or any other 

 of the animals. Every animal that lives must have raw food, food in just 

 the condition that the Creator made it for him. All our cooked foods are 

 artificial, artificially prepared. God made man to live in the forest like 

 the monkey and ape and gorilla and orangoutang; these still stick to the 

 Edenic bill of fare; but man has wandered away and sought out all kinds of 

 things. 



You must feed your pig or horse the right thing if you want to get the 

 Tight kind of work out of him. How do you feed yourselves? This is 

 certainly cognate to this subject. If the average farmer fed himself as he 

 feeds his horse, and his horse as he feeds himself, in the same reckless sort 

 of way, his horse would become a dyspeptic in a very short time. It is 

 only because man is tougher than a horse that he can stand such a bill 

 of fare as he has — because he has a better constitution than a horse. We 

 have got inoculated with bad habits so we are able to endure them. 



I sat down to a hotel table a while ago, and there was the bill of fare. 

 What was there there? In the first place, there were fish of various kinds. 

 Do you know how many stomachs it takes to digest fish? The whale is a 

 fish eater, and the whale has seven stomachs, and some whales have as high 

 as eleven stomachs; so it takes seven whale's stomachs to digest this fish. 

 And so I put it down. There were half a dozen kinds of fish; there were 

 several kinds of vegetables there; there was grass of various sorts. Now 

 how many stomachs has a cow got? Four. It takes four stomachs to digest 

 lettuce and spinach — grass of all sorts. Seven and four are eleven. There 

 were various kinds of nuts and fruits there; that is what a monkey eats; 

 a monkey has one stomach, and that made twelve. There was meat, all 

 sorts of meats, red meats of various sorts; and it takes a dog's stomach to 

 digest meat. A dog has a stomach intended for meat. So there were 

 thirteen stomachs required to digest that bill of fare, and that man right 

 opposite me sat down there with one puny little stomach and expected to 

 be able to digest the bill of fare of all creation. There is only one animal 

 that can do it with impunity, and that is the Michigan woodchuck. The 

 Michigan woodchuck has got fourteen stomachs. (Laughter) There is 

 a chance for him. But when a man undertakes to swallow a woodchuck's 

 diet he gets the worst of it. 



So I recommend that you substitute in a very large degree the delicious 

 fruits, these wholesome fruits that God has given us, and which we find are 

 so wonderfully helpful in the cure of disease. 



Away back two thousand years ago, Pliny, the Roman historian that saw 

 the eruption of Vesuvius that devastated Pompeii and Herculaneum, and 

 who lost his life in that terrible eruption, was smothered by the ashes as he 

 was trying to escape — this wonderful old historian, the author of "Pliny's 

 Natural History," recommended fruits, and said they were accustomed 

 to use them with great success in the treatment of diarrhoea, rheumatism, 

 and acute dysentery. 



Van Swieten two hundred years ago recommended fruit in great abund- 

 ance; he recommended strawberries; he recommended some patients to 

 eat twenty pounds of strawberries a day, and especially for consumption, 



Linnaeus, the man who made botany — and you know how dependent 

 you farmers are on the observations of Linnaeus, the great Swedish botanist, 

 had the gout and cured it by eating cherries. Van Swieten tells of the wonder- 

 ful things that have come from a fruit diet for consumption. 



I have visited Germany many times, where I saw the signs up, ''Grape 



