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Yeo* remarks concerning condimental foods, " Many of these, by 

 conferring agreeable flavors and by their warm carminative proper- 

 ties promote appetite and assist digestion ; but their excessive use is 

 calculated to excite irritation and disorder of the digestive organs." 

 In the great majority of cases where tonic foods or 

 When to use condition powders appear to be necessary, they can 

 condimental he dispensed with a /id usually to the advantage of the 

 foods. animal. Any real or apparent diseased condition 



that can be cured by the administration of an indis- 

 criminate mixture of drugs can ordinarily be relieved with less datiger to 

 the patient by the adoption of a ratiojial system of treatment and feeding. 



In those instances where drugs are necessary, it is far better to 

 employ one or more, adapted to the treatment of the particjilar ailment, 

 than to attempt a cure by the admirristration of a " shot-gun '' mix- 

 ture, in the form of a patent food or condition powder. 



In the end such specific treatment is infinitely less expensive, less 

 dangerous and more satisfactory. 



*Food in Health and Disease. 



