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H. MIN. 



Veal, fresh, fried 4 , 30 



Fowls, domestic, boiled 4 00 



Fowls, domestic, roasted 4 00 



Ducks, domestic, roasted 4 00 



Duck, wild, roasted 4 30 



Butter, melted 3 30 



Cheese, old, strong, raw 3 30 



Soup, marrow bones, boiled 4 15 



Hash, meat and vegretables, 



warmed 2 30 



Beans, pod, boiled 2 30 



Bread, wheaten. fresh, baked 3 30 



Bread, corn, baked 3 15 



H. MIN. 



Cake, corn, baked 3 00 



Dumpling, apple, boiled 3 00 



Apples, sour and hard, raw 2 50 



Apples, sour and mellow, raw 2 00 



Apples, sweet and mellow, raw 1 30 



Parsnips, boiled 2 30 



Carrot, orange, boiled 3 15 



Beet, boiled 3 45 ' 



Turnips, flat, boiled 3 30 



Potatoes. Irish, boiled 3 30 



Potatoes, Irish, baked 2 30 



Cabbage, head, raw 2 30 



Cabbage, head, boiled 4 30 



RHEUMATISM 



This disease is generally regarded as a disease of 

 the joints. This, however, is an error. It is a disease 

 of the whole body. The special manifestation of the 

 disease, when in an acute form, is most common in 

 the joints, but the muscles are not infrequently af- 

 fected, and the nerves also sometimes suffer from the 

 same morbid condition which gives rise to the painful 

 symptoms in the joints and muscles. Inflammations 

 of a kindred character also not infrequently attack the 

 delicate membrane which covers the lungs and lines 

 the chest, and also that which covers the brain. 



The condition which gives rise to the symptoms to 

 which the term rheumatism is commonly applied, is 

 a poisoned state of the blood and tissues. The direct 

 cause of this poisoning is a disordered state of the 

 liver, or of the stomach and liver, for both organs are 

 most commonly affected. Professor Bouchard, the 

 eminent French physician and physiologist, discovered, 

 many years ago, that the stomach is found to be dilated 

 in the majority of cases of rheumatism. In conse- 

 quence of this dilatation, the food remains in the stom- 

 ach too long, and undergoes decompositions of various 



