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blood vessels which are as fine as hair, will become 

 clogged up, and premature old age will soon appear. 



If carbon and hydrogen should be in great excess 

 in the blood, as they are the heat-producers of the 

 world, whether in or out of the system, then there is 

 danger of fevers, boils, abscesses, bilious disorders 

 and eruptive diseases of the skin. 



Now the object of this Chapter is to teach you how 

 to prevent all kinds of sickness. We shall say nothing 

 about the medical treatment when you are sick we 

 leave that to your family physician. 



Bread contains more bone that is, more mineral 

 matter, more ashes, than any other kind of food. 



Besides this bread and butter, furnish more carbon 

 and hydrogen, to the system than any other kind of 

 diet, except sugar and^o^ meat. Yet, there is nothing 

 more healthy, or more strengthening to the body than 

 bread. It is the disproportion, the excessive use oj 

 bread, when compared with other things, which does 

 all the mischief, and lays a sure foundation for nearly 

 every malady. 



In ancient times, when they had no mills that would 

 turn out a 100 barrels of floor a day, and they had to 

 grind their grain by hand, there was very little danger 

 of eating too much bread. 



They had to live more upon flesh, fish, fruits and 

 vegetables. And as this kind of diet, did not introduce 

 an excess of carbon and hydrogen, nor too much ashes 

 into the blood, they lived to be very old, and were 

 clear-headed, and as active, when a hundred years of 

 age, as our yoifng men of twenty-five. 



Now let me give you a few well-known illustrations, 

 to establish the truth of these statements. 



Plutarch says the Ancient Britons only began to 



