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person to a more intelligent application of its well-ascer- 

 tained facts and principles, it will not be in vain that we 

 have considered the chemistry of the kitchen. 



I have come to the conclusion that more than half the disease 

 which embitters the middle and latter part of life is due to avoid- 

 able errors in diet, . . . and that more mischief, in the form of 

 actual disease, of impaired vigor, and of shortened life, accrues 

 to civilized man ... in England aud throughout central Europe 

 from erroneous habits of eating than from the habitual use of 

 alcoholic drink, considerable as I know that evil to be. — Sir 

 Hekry Thompson. 



If we will care for men's souls most effectively, we must care 

 for their bodies also. — Bishop R. S. Foster. 



