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furnishing it at a price not exceeding Is. Sd. per lb. It will 
cause a revolution in Continental cookery, in which the daily 
plate of soup is considered indispensable. The meat which 
now is boiled, will then, in many families, be roasted; and 
the soup will be made with a spoonful of the extract, and the 
usual addition of vegetables. This would be a gain in every 
way. Not only is roast meat more palatable, but it contains 
also a greater amount of nourishment than that which has 
been boiled in order to procure soup. When a good soup 
is thus obtained, the meat loses its amalgamating properties. 
They have been extracted from it.* The usual houilli of the 
Continent, which is mere fibrine, supports and supplies 
strength only because the soup is eaten with it. Without 
the soup it would afford very imperfect sustenance. Herein 
lies the great difference between boiled and roasted meat. The 
Englishman eats his soup in his roast heef. 
The beneficent uses to which this meat-essence may be 
applied are manifest. Eor the sick, as already has been 
stated, it is an especial Godsend. Even in cases of gastric 
fever, when, from the nature of the disease, the stomach is 
peculiarly unfitted to support food, to digest and assimilate, 
this pure juice is found grateful, exhilarating, and strength- 
giving. To the weak stomach it seems rather like a con- 
genial essence akin to its own nature, than a foreign ele- 
ment or an extraneous thing ; a circumstance which might be 
thought to prove the truth of the French chemist'’ s assertion 
more strongly even than his analysis. 
The use of this meat-essence in the military hospital at 
Munich has brought to light a fact important to the physician. 
It has been found that the convalescence of patients who 
have been suffering from typhus is accelerated in a wonderful 
degree by the introduction of this meat-juice as an article of 
their diet, so that, dear as it is, calculation has proved its 
use in such cases would be profitable, if on economic grounds 
only ; so quickly do the men recover their strength and 
become fit for duty.f 
On the battle-field this extract, so portable and so easily 
made into warm bouillon, would be a boon indeed. We all 
* This has been proved by Liebig. Dr. Magendie also found that a dog 
fed on boiled meat only, ivithout the soup, died of hunger. 
t How palatable the men find such beef-tea is shown by the circumstance 
that when the doctor says to a patient, “ Well, I think you are now well enough 
to return to your usual diet,” and consequently to leave off the meat-essence, 
the answer invariably is, “ I beg you, sir, have the goodness to let me have it 
once more.” Ich bitte Sie, Herr Doctor, schreiben Sie es mir doch noch 
einmal auf ! ”) 
