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ents of the peas, some soluble casein, and has a fine flavor, the very 

 essence of the peas. If to this, as it comes from the saucepan, be 

 added a little stock, or some Liebig's extract, a delicious soup is at 

 once produced, requiring nothing more than ordinary seasoning. 

 With care, it may form a clear soup such as just now is in fashion 

 among the fastidious ; but, prepared however roughly, it is a very 

 economical, wholesome, and appetizing soup, and costs a minimum of 

 trouble. 



I must here add a few words in advocacy of the further adoption 

 in this country of the French practice of using, as potage, the water 

 in which vegetables generally (excepting potatoes) have been boiled. 

 When we boil cabbages, turnips, carrots, etc., we dissolve out of them 

 a very large proportion of their saline constituents — salts which are 

 absolutely necessary for the maintenance of health ; salts, without 

 which we become victims of gout, rheumatism, lumbago, neuralgia, 

 gravel, and all the ills that human flesh, with a lithic-acid diathesis, is 

 heir to, i. e., about the most painful series of all its inheritances. The 

 potash of these salts existing therein, in combination with organic 

 acids, is separated from these acids by organic combustion, and is 

 then and there presented to the baneful lithic acid of the blood and 

 tissues, the stony torture-particles of which it converts into soluble 

 lithate of potash, and thus enables them to be carried out of the 

 system. 



I know not which of the fathers of the Church invented fast-days 

 and soup maigre, but could almost suppose that he was a scientific 

 monk, a profound alchemist, like Basil Valentine, who, in his seekings 

 for the auriim potabile, the elixir of life, had learned the beneficent 

 action of organic potash salts on the blood, and therefore used the 

 authority of the Church to enforce their frequent use among the 

 faithful. — Knowledge, 



HYGIE:tTE FOE SMOKEES. 



By Db. FELIX BEEMONT. 



THIS article is not intended for school-boys desiring to enjoy their 

 cigarettes out of the sight of their tutor, nor for children who 

 try to play the man by taking up one of his faults. It is addressed 

 to smokers, but does not purpose to increase the number of them. Its 

 design is to indicate what precautions may be taken to diminish as far 

 as possible the inconveniences of smokers' glandular irritation ; but it 

 affirms the reality of these inconveniences, and declares it impossible 

 to remove them completely. 



The first hygienic principle relative to tobacco is, then, Do not smoke 

 at all ; don't smoke at any age. More than one old smoker will agree 



