HYGIENE OF DIGESTION 



not by the taking of medicines, but by learning the art of 

 living, and of this lesson, spare diet, hard work, and exer- 

 cise form the first and last page. 



" In countries other than England the patent-medicine 

 venders are forced to publish the ingredients of their con- 

 coctions, and the governments warn the public and state 

 the nature and exact price of the ingredients. In England 

 the people are allowed to be fooled and defrauded of mil- 

 lions of money by quacks, while the government, to its 

 disgrace, does nothing to protect the poor, weak, and 

 the ignorant from them." 



453. Is England the only country in which this fraud- 

 ulent business is allowed to flourish unchecked ? The 

 formula should be required by law to be printed upon 

 the bottle. Most patent medicines in large bottles, such 

 as sarsaparillas, bitters, etc., contain about the same pro- 

 portion of alcohol as brandy contains. Even in grogshops 

 the character of the drink that is being sold is not entirely 

 misrepresented to the customer. 



454. An Error of Vegetarians. Those with whom meat 

 does not agree, or who for humane scruples, or other 

 causes, adopt a vegetarian diet, sometimes fall into serious 

 error. If fruits and nuts are not freely used, but the diet 

 is confined to grains and green vegetables, a large excess 

 of starch is consumed, and the diet is very bulky, in spite 

 of the fact that it is greatly lacking in fat and proteid. 

 Persons who do not eat meat should replace the proteid of 

 meat with that of nuts, cheese, beans, and peas, and employ 

 fat in the form of nuts, cream, milk, eggs, and butter. 



455. Many millions of people, the most populous nations 

 of the earth, eat no meat. The inhabitants of the countries 

 largely vegetarian in diet, as India, China, etc., constitute 

 a majority of the human race. It may be possible that 

 they would be a more vigorous people if they lived upon 

 a more varied diet. People of warm countries flourish on 



