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other poisons and as chemical or mechani- 

 cal medication externally. I mastered the 

 principles of the system thoroughly. Indeed 

 its principles are thoroughly physiological 

 and hygienic. I could have had tlie M. D. 

 degree with an attendance of <> or ".» months 

 at the College which was required no matter 

 what one's previous qualitications. I had 

 my trunk packed and was nearly ready 

 to start to put in that (1 mouths at the Shrine 

 Esculapius when a little incident ( which I 

 need not mention here ) occurred, and turn- 

 ed the whole current of my life. I was then 

 about '24. Though my course of life took 

 other directions, I never lost the intense in- 

 terest in everything pertaining to mind and 

 body — to human life, human health. And 

 I have always felt it a duty to point out to 

 others the course that saved and prolonged 

 my own life. I have done this in season 

 and possibly out of season with tongue and 

 pen. 



Mr. Editor, and Mr. reader, ( friends ), I 

 think I need write no more by way of apol- 

 ogy for the text at the head of this article. 

 But I have occupied so much space already 

 by way of introduction and explanation 

 that I cannot do more just now than set out 

 the great fundamental and essential points 

 of hygienic living. If all the editors should 

 get sick together again, and the biggest one 

 of them all ( no offense to the others — he 

 must be, I should say, about G feet in stat- 

 ure ) should send me another card for an 

 article, saying on the card " choose your own 

 subject, " ten to one there would be a sim- 

 ilar choice at this end of the line : but then 

 there would be no apology or explanation to 

 make next time. 



Taking the common every-day life of the 

 people, the principal mistakes are made in 

 eating, drinking, and breatliing* Then 

 comes bathing and raiment— or rather want 

 of bathing and wrong raiment. Take eat- 

 ing first, and the leading article of diet, 

 bread, which is said to l)e " the staff of life, " 

 but, as commonly used, it is really the road 

 to death. That would be a better definition 

 of almost all bakers bread, and even home- 

 made bread made of " tine " and " " sui)er- 

 fine" flour. The human throws tlie best 

 of the wheat kernel to the lower animals 

 and takes the worst for himself. In the 

 "shorts" or "middlings," he throws the 

 gluten, the nourishing and strengthing ele- 

 ment of the grain, to the animal and takes 

 the starch for his own food, upon which 



alone either himself or the animal would 

 starve to death in a short time. It has been 

 proved that a man or dog would soon starve 

 on fine flour bread alone, while either will 

 thrive almost indefinitely on broad made 

 from the meal of the whole wheat. This is, 

 of course nothing new, yet, people general- 

 ly go right on eating the stuff and taking the 

 consequences. Such bread is not only innu- 

 tritions but constipating, and constipation, 

 so prevalent, is the parent of much other 

 mischief in the system. The only way to 

 get good wholesome bread, which you will 

 positively know to be such, is to get good 

 clean wheat and have your miller grind it 

 for you without any bolting, and then at 

 home sift out simply the coarsest of the 

 bran — the outside husk. Take what's left 

 and bake it into bread or " gems. " The 

 latter are the better because they are " rais- 

 ed " and made light by air instead of poi- 

 sonous gases as in the case with the f remen- 

 ted bread. The so-called " aerated bread, " 

 if made of the above wheat meal, and really 

 " raised " with atmospheric air, with all fer 

 mentation excluded, is, of course, whole- 

 some bread. But you will observe there is 

 an " if " there. The "gems " are really the 

 best, and can be made in twenty minutes, 

 and may be eaten warm. Stir the wheat 

 meal rapidly in pure soft water till it be- 

 comes so thick that when put in the little 

 " patty-pans " it will not settle to an even 

 surface, and bake in a quick oven. The 

 air incorporated in the dough in mixing it 

 expands in the oven and " raises " the bread 

 making it light. Eat these with honey, and 

 butter if you must have it — but fresh and 

 without much salt. 



As to meat, the less the better for all 

 whose occupations are sedentary without 

 much outdoor exercise. Fat, salt pork is 

 not fit to eat at all by anybody. Fresh beef 

 and mutton from healthy animals, if 

 thoroughly cooked, are perhaps the least ob- 

 jectionable kinds of meat. But the vegeta- 

 ble kingdom affords the best supply — and an 

 ample supply — of human food. Let the 

 lower carnivorous animals eat the flesh, and 

 those also of the " higher " (?) carnivorous 

 animals who still eat each other, but the civ- 

 ilized man will ultimately rise above it. 

 The physiological argument against meat 

 as human food may be stated briefly thus : 

 The only source of nutriment is the vegeta- 

 ble kingdom, so that when we eat meat to 

 get nutriment we only get tliat at second- 



