THEIR FEED AND THEIR FEET. i x 



over his owner, so far as he has less exciting causes 

 of disease — still, as we all know, his disorders are of 

 about the same nature, so far as they go. He has 

 fewer diseases in number and frequency than we find 

 in the human family ; and this comparative exemp- 

 tion from disease bears a pretty close relation to the 

 plainness. of his diet. 



In my recent work entitled " Natural Cure of 

 Consumption," * in which I discuss the advantages 

 of wheat meal, unbolted and unsifted, over fine 

 flour or any modification 'of it, in the treatment 

 or prevention of dyspepsia — a disorder which is 

 at the root of almost all the internal diseases of 

 man and beast — I make use of the following lan- 

 guage : " That most noble of all animals next to 

 man, — and in some aspects far superior to him, — 

 the horse, in his finest and most delicate state, finds 

 a perfect food in the whole grain, chewing it himself. 

 I may, in the minds of some, be weakening my argu- 

 ment by comparing the digestive apparatus of man 

 with that of the horse, but I am desirous of impress- 

 ing upon the minds of my readers the well-known but 

 imperfectly considered fact, that our horse-fanciers, — 

 who dote on their ten-thousand-dollar animals, and 

 would feed them on the finest of flour, would place 

 before them the most costly and complicated cooked 

 dishes if it were desirable, or even not pernicious in a 

 health point of view, — really keep their dearest pets 



* " The Natural Cure of Consumption, Dyspepsia, Blight's 

 Disease, Rheumatism, etc." pp. 275, $1. New York : Fowler 

 & Wells. 



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