M^IMAI., i:, AND UINKRAL POOD. 



to cat meat and blubber, while the people of warm climates eat 

 those very substances which are stated to give the most heat 

 "Why tin !! do the Esquimaux live on blubber. "We say on 

 account of their living in a cold mineral region, they require 

 the strongest vegetable loud they can find, to counteract the 

 influence of the cold atmosphere. This they get in animal food, 

 which is merely concentrated vegetable substance. Thus it ie 

 we can eat more meat in winter than in summer, and the people 

 of hot climates are content with the simplest vegetable diet, 

 along with so much mineral, such as salt, as they can relish. 



Playfair also tells us the principal flesh former is animal 

 food. But some of the strongest and largest animals are vege- 

 tarians ; such as the elephant, the rhinoceros, the hippopotamus, 

 the buffalo, the cow, and the horse ; while those animals which 

 supply us with our animal food, all live on vegetal)]' 



"We think Liebig's division of food altogether erroneous, for 

 no account seems to be taken of the climate, and that is every- 

 thing in importance. What would form flesh in the Esquimaux, 

 would only breed sickness or disease in an Arab, and vice versa. 



The experiments made by scientific men to prove certain 

 formulas, are all done far too loosely. They seldom think any- 

 thing of the nature, position, and condition of the material, or 

 the locality in which they are performing, or of the nature of 

 the object operated on ; and thus their generalizations can seldom 

 be depended on as correct If a man, therefore, were to diet himself 

 by Playfair's Tables, with the expectation of forming flesh, 

 or losing it, he would probably end by being sick ; because, for 

 any such purpose, these Tables are absolutely worthless, until 

 the nature and action of the mineral ingredients in food are 

 explained. When these are known, they may become 



