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th toy In Spain, Should he, on the contrary, maintain such a conan 
the oo matter quias nd cartilages tho! the afi | Garbanz — her Pulses constitute important | 3 over his appetite as ii ede vent thi > * 
i it i that | ticl dá er ent. om ensuing, he mus er is capacity for 
the, E i es 3 is si, -— d Li ebig's Seger also lead us to understand, how it cg | the e so gt of his calli e di 7 
into 3 animal jelly, when takon as food, may | pens, that an almost e ae reas die t may b e | por rtain a of men 
us contribute to this latter o: det i to with impunity by pers the vig necessarily entails a certain expenditure of 
Now flesh and bone constitute, eel only the most life and scalp much boy pese dm ue —. be replaced by nutriment. Or 
essential, but also the largest portion of our r fabric, and e Germ: I hope has been already nd debility did not — oad the only legitimate con, 
owe us I Eque iples which supply their waste deserve | shown, never NC t nitrogeni ised c t his ordinary mode of li 
cial manner to bi rded as er mate- | pounds could n ply the materials for generat was in excess, since it admitted of reduction with 
e o 
rials. "Had Liebig called them $ the n f flesh- | animal heat, but only that they must first be rendered 
producing, no cavil could have been Mod ainst his effete, and secondly y be dep crepe 0 bong itrogen by the 
position, rry it off in conjunc- 
Inasmuch, — as phosphoric acid, in cone 
tion with lime or with some other base, appears to be 
necessarily ass ja e imal matte oth i A e 
one and in the other, it may happen that an article of 
food, like Wheat, which is less highly charged with 
ni en, affords more nourishment na another, like 
consequence of p undance of the 
Pulse, 
phosphates pegent i in its compos: 
erime ndeed are quoted, i 75 apum h sa ne|o 
inous principles appear to pm dnd 
es ami 
carri ‘off in the syste ur a mbustion more rapidly | 
than fat; and Dr. Gill rts that. cattle, mring aj 
period of very hot mist. which destroyed se ; 
nised food than they had done previously. 
tion hi part o ; 
When we aiki that lean mg does not contain 
n abo per cent. of pee compoun: 
that in the former there 
_ the De instance for a "given 
b 
15 per cent., and that of starch alone vti ut 60, re of 
d 26 ithout r wien taken nio the dio — ues 2 
ingredients i Sume of yie ding "the 3 For my own part, with — 7 . fo he a 
recurs it may be readil mde thata a larger | which "olds 80 —.— in place o 
amount of an cil f requisite | Engli: a. should, 1. dust ur "EET " 
the temperature of the body, than of vege one and the same dish, prefer dining ards 4 
Accor ingly, “where no vegetables are Ld the | Olla Podr ida. 
asteful one, not only from the sidering indeed the very d powers viik. 
Con 
the digestive organs possess of altering the chemie 
of 
the principles presented to them, 
ecause a 
t + g 
f, 
r 
En 
ut contributing to the produc- 
— 98 of animal heat. For this I have 
attempted to account already, by supposing that i 
tion of heat. 
In the next place 1 the principles | laid down by 2 
mit ting 
Mee: to do, arg eyen s the | 
e . adopted by "certain parties in "tis 
poc DE 
t 
t of its constituents pos always be carried off | seems im 
witho 
pr * 
3 everything which enters into the 
l should be to 
s importan: 
composition of healthy anima 
it in the f p this can best be brought about 
diversity of aliments. Accordingly Miss Martinemyi — 
(uen 
of al d 
her rec ons work, entitled “ England and her "2 : 
ini ells u he advantages that accrued to the sick 
coun try, so of whom at leas presumed, 
conversant "with Science, 8 Pos 
theory of nutrition. 
de, egree of |a 
It would be 
28 ain exer rtion of 
accom iplis ish t 
8 
object for ep it is design 
Wage pheno 2 bottom a chemical 
; requires the co-operation of 
15 vitel forces for its — and hence, as was 
thi is cuiua Ne I can find no w — from 
— ure or from Reason, n analogy in Nature, no 
n Humanity, for an eae aer from 
s e ood. 
Confining ourselves, however, to the physiological, or 
if you please the chem sical: a of t He beo it is 
hentia what om accrue to the 
vegetables, to the exclusion of those 
ngdo 
long ago shown by Sir odie, es euni energy | 
8 ent i imal heat, althoug 
the lungs ma. Y — 
It would occupy bran the pre- | 
yon from ‘the animal kin 
Bo 
, contai in th 
s which have prompted men to | thou 
e advantage c 
drawing * o supply ‘of nitrogenised | a 
na render at once more savoury and more 
fied than had presion been the case. 
to consider wh 
id 
estabe 
n 
vely, 
e Phu W die of s ; 
lished etiem ad by jeudi, "but the true pir A 
erved for Li :: 
tion w: iebig. 
Before is time it would hav 
thi 
sam 
eriptions of azoti sed matter, a at least with. very poer 
modifications, but the former in such comparatively 
small pr oportions, that it is necessary. to distend the 
He * — out ees 
— d from protein 
mparing 
"T 
me if I were 
sent — to notice P ig objections A 1 the 
j 
ingeni author of the popular work alluded to ! 
Mn adr other of A Liebig's theories, nor is | 
it 3 that I should do 
Ly S10! 
sts have hitherto ce more sue ecessful i 
ir 
shake the faith of | 
ve Spo oken o of the cea condition ot those 
such a diet, 
ys e owing 
nt ts, sa smaller expendi- 
ture of tissue, and therefore les ont e 
oubtless i 
the the publie i in L princip ples which — undisturbed, by to supply. 
which are merely conjectural or per- Doubtless a man in vigorous health, and in the prime 
— 4 5 will therefore pass no d upon, | of life, may subsist wholly upon vegetables without 
offer no vindication of, the attempts of the German feeling any bad effects from X vw have 
— known an eminent surgeon, afte ear’s 
f aleoholi abstinence from meat, found him st at the end of the 
sation, and the * prio of d rop or ved time with jaa weight undiminished, and his 4 
le alkaloids. for ee and physical exertion unimpaired. In h 
as I conceive these views to be, they do not case, the system w. l enough to 
rg 
affect the prise 7 us, and may therefore be m | 
to be dealt — ie some future opportunity w. 
similar topics to be discussed. 
to 
| 5 o nutritiou 
as 
rid without inconvenience of 
ssary rona which ka was compelled to digest, 
ract from it the requisite quantity of 
unnecessa; 
in order 
cases too Sachs 3 which I know 
id "whether the 8 can 
| 
A Vegetable decd for 
waste of the tissues. 
which provides 
the produetion of haik pum of on animal for supplying the 
t 
to have shown it to be a 
Such 
,|man ser bad ever seen in his own 5 was a € 
| fallacy in 
flattering himself that he is we upon 5 
milk, eggs, cheese, butter, 
Ssary, 
1 t 
et 
f|In whi eh it ill be bere £ iat all the a 
d 
explain, may render |i 
oc 
er proportion it 
ds that processes of reine 
emt f8 
present, except car 
— than in 
Lehmann indeed conten 
et 
Ses 
"Oo 
who never took a particle e put 
"There is also somewhat an individual | 
or Mushrooms, enter into 
concentrated form, and gets rid in 
he course — his digestion of a larger — of super- | 
fluous matter, 
In certain states of the system, indeed, or in m 
cular seaso; seasons, t the usual am mount of animal food may 
pa xides in in. 
tion of oxygen by the organie matter 
therefore — ree to cap causes 
er cases, vi he form 
cholesterine, seem 
pones tenour 
k, to be so — opposed to 
genised Xe the demand for was te, is 
the skill to cater for them selves, and are driven to be 
content with 88 either of a vegetabl taken 
nature, has placed wi their reach; | 
within but 
> Hindoo, w ho was said to live wholly xz 1 
niga by the —— es of Dr. 
da d ean — manage to dm ain A as 
or dried fish, in 
= to —— even n where the latter i is obtainable 
rescribe a 
80 
belief, and shall merely ex 
explanation does not appear to 
wes, judging by the remarks it in 19 
P 
| ete be ate s younger perso 
M AS 
pest 
Of starvation are visible in 
every direction, although 
the distended stomach of the poor "Rot — ze 
ie la possible quantity of Rice is taken to su 
the nitrogen required. "ed 
lu Ehe manger in the “poorest peris.ef of Ireland, 
Potatoes have boon said to form the staple food 
free use of buttermilk 
is found to |a g me 
such observance 
d 
abstinence from nutritive food on certain days and i g^ 
on 
suspect, also, that many valli intentioned persons 
this v — vais ien 
present in n 
it is quite as conceivable gro. the latter 
certain seaso hat cil should res agras 
If a man has eaten too little to supply the demands — as he hi self 5 
of the system on one day, Nature instinctive — — | the case, its exhibition may 
| him to make up for the deficiency on ien so that | necessity of making i& good by 
| the absolute nt of f "^ pomi i 
iven ti little, if at all, affected by | | dispense with so large a quantity of 
But if gelatine be 
