{"collection":"scripture-revelation","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/gutenberg_52992/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/gutenberg_52992","id":"gutenberg_52992","license":"Public Domain (US)","rights_basis":"gutenberg_metadata_copyright_false","source":"gutenberg","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/52992","summary":null,"tags":["Category: Nutrition","Category: Philosophy & Ethics","Category: Religion/Spirituality","Food","Sermons, American -- 19th century"],"text":"FOOD\n                                  AND\n                                MORALS;\n\n                         A SERMON PREACHED BY\n\n                          REV. J. F. CLYMER,\n                                  IN\n                THE FIRST METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH AT\n                           AUBURN, NEW YORK.\n\n                    SIXTH EDITION: 110TH THOUSAND.\n\n                               NEW YORK:\n                          FOWLER & WELLS CO.,\n                             775 BROADWAY.\n                                 1888\n\n  For a Sample number of the PHRENOLOGICAL JOURNAL, and our large list\n  of works on Phrenology, Physiognomy, Health, Hygiene, Dietetics,\n  Heredity, Children, &c., send your address on a Postal Card. F.& W.\n\n\n\n\n     [_From_ REV. DR. DEEMS, _Church of the Strangers, New York_.]\n\nMESSRS. FOWLER & WELLS:\n\n_Gentlemen_:\u2014I have read with great interest a sermon by Rev. Mr.\nClymer, of Auburn, on \u201cThe Relation of Food to Morals,\u201d as it appeared\nin the Auburn _Daily Advertiser_ of June 20th, 1880. Certainly\neverything stands related to morals; and all men, women, and children\nshould be made to see and feel this.\n\nI suppose I am considered an old-fashioned preacher. I believe in\n\u201coriginal sin,\u201d and I believe in a great deal of sin that is not\noriginal. I believe that every man is so corrupt that he can never be\nmade pure without supernatural influence; and I believe that he must\ntake advantage, at the same time, of all the natural helps. Even the\ngrace of our Lord Jesus Christ cannot make the saint who is in the\nflesh, feel alert and happy, so long as he has any serious obstruction\nof the biliary duct. When I was a younger pastor in a Southern city, I\nwas called by a mother to see her daughter, a girl of eighteen, who was\nin a dreadful way, inconsolably laboring under the oppressive feeling\nthat there was no mercy for her. I prescribed for her torpid liver as\nmy knowledge of the healing art enabled me to do, promising to call\nagain soon. When I did call, the young lady was relieved, and I was\nable to secure her attention to the comfortable truths of our most\nholy faith. It is first the natural, and then the spiritual; St. Paul,\n1 Cor. xv. 46: \u201cHowbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but\nthat which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual.\u201d We must\nalways feel our dependence on the spirit of God for our regeneration\nand sanctification, but not in such a way as to make fools of us. The\nman whose faith in the supernatural makes him depreciate the natural,\nhas no more sense than he whose faith in the natural utterly excludes\nsuper-nature.\n\nI think you would do a good work to issue Mr. Clymer\u2019s discourse as one\nof a series of tracts proclaiming the gospel of hygiene. Will you not\ndo it?\n\n  With kindest regards, yours truly,\n  CHARLES F. DEEMS.\n\n  NEW YORK, February 1, 1881.\n\n                              \u2015\u2015\u2015\u2015\u2015\u2015\u2015\u2015\u2015\u2015\n\n  REV. DR. DEEMS:\n\n_Dear Sir_: Yours of February 1 received, and contents noted. Thanks\nfor your suggestion. Yes; we will do it. We will publish Mr. Clymer\u2019s\nsermon in so cheap a pamphlet form that we can give it an almost\nuniversal circulation.\n\nWe do this because we believe with you most fully in the gospel of\nhygiene.\n\n  Yours very truly,\n  FOWLER & WELLS.\n\n\n\n\n                      RELATION OF FOOD TO MORALS.\n\n                         A SERMON PREACHED BY\n                          REV. J. F. CLYMER,\n\n      IN THE FIRST METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, AUBURN, NEW YORK,\n                      ON SUNDAY, JUNE 20TH, 1880.\n\n \u201cIf a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the\n voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and that when they\n have chastened him, will not hearken unto them, then shall his father\n and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of\n his city, and unto the gates of his place; and they shall say unto the\n elders of his city: _This our son is stubborn and rebellious; he will\n not obey our voice; he is a glutton and a drunkard._\u201d\u2014DEUT. xxi. 18-20.\n\n\nWe have had much teaching that has left the impression on our minds\nthat the soul is the _only_ source and seat of all the vice in human\nlife. Because it is written \u201cThe imaginations of the thoughts of the\nnatural heart, are only evil continually,\u201d total depravity has been\nfixed on the spirit nature of man; that is, all the bad or immoral\nelements entering into human life have been attributed to the innate\nor inborn ugliness of the soul. Accepting the Scriptural truth that\n\u201cthe soul that sinneth, it shall die,\u201d we have come to think that sin\nhas its _center_, _seat_, _source and circumference_ in the soul, or\nthe immaterial nature of man. Hence we readily admit the fact that\ninfluences, good or bad, may pass over from the soul to the body, but\nwe do not so readily admit that _other_ fact, equally true, that\ninfluence good or bad may go over from the _body_ to the soul. The road\nover which vicious thoughts and lustful imaginations pass from the soul\nto the body is the highway over which unbridled appetites, unrestrained\npassions and unsubdued lusts in the body may go to the soul, goading\nit to the wildest conceptions of vice and lecherous imaginations. The\nwarm rays of the sun may gender rottenness in the muddy pool; so also\nwill the effluvia from the pool poison the sunlight near it. The soul\nby its vicious thoughts and imaginations will entail an immoral tone on\nthe body; so also will the body react on the soul, by its appetites,\npassions and propensities, increasing the viciousness of the soul by\npushing it to courses of vice not directly and immediately its own. In\nour text is found an illustration of this thought. A father and mother\nbring their stubborn and rebellious son to the elders of the Jewish\nchurch. They assign, as the cause of his stubbornness and rebellion,\ngluttony and drunkenness, than which there are no vices that demoralize\nthe body more, or goad the soul to greater crimes. Hear it:\n\n\u201cThis our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice,\nhe is a glutton and a drunkard.\u201d That is, bad conditions of the physical\nnature, wrought by gluttony and drunkenness, have made him stubborn and\nrebellious. It will not help the case to say that his stubbornness and\nrebellion caused his gluttony and drunkenness, for if they did, then\nhis soul must act on the body. His morals must influence his manners,\nand therefore his manners must reflect on his morals; they must\ninteract, which is just the point we make; that his appetite and lust\nfire the temperament or disposition, and a fiery disposition provokes\nappetite and lust to wilder indulgences.\n\nA remarkable fact, in this day of advanced science and revelation, is\nthat Christians and moralists in their work of reform have paid so\nlittle attention to the influence of the body on the soul. Jesus Christ\nmore than any other teacher or reformer recognized the demoralizing\nand debasing influence of bad bodily conditions. Hence he almost\nalways healed maladies of the body before he entered his principles\nupon the soul. It is true that his many miracles on the bodies of men\nwere primarily intended to reveal his divinity; yet divinity in its\nmanifestations always runs over the whole line of the natural before\npassing into the supernatural; therefore Christ\u2019s miracles on the\nbodies of men had a sanitary side to them. The man with the leprosy was\nin the poorest condition bodily to hear favorably any talk about moral\nsweetness; hence Christ healed his diseased body, in connection with\nhis moral teachings. His example with the blind and hungry and deaf in\nthis respect ought not to go for nothing with those of us who seek to\nsave men in our day. Philanthropists and Christians for the most part\nhave overlooked the power of a debased body on the soul. They forget\nthat Paul likens a body that has sinful habitudes to a thing of death,\nas compared with the soul that seeks to live the new life in Christ\nJesus. Therefore good men have labored to create in themselves and\nthose whom they seek to reform, certain emotional conditions of the\nspirit, by a tenacious adherence to creeds, or the patient performance\nof a set round of religious duties, and all this regardless of bad\nphysical conditions begotten by bad habits of eating and drinking.\nWhile they have been struggling to bring their own souls and the souls\nof others into holy attitudes, all the basilar forces of the body have\nrun riot within, and perhaps beyond, the pale of human customs and\nhuman laws. If you want to empty a boiler of steam, it will not help\nyou much by lifting the safety valve if you still keep water in the\nboiler and fire in the furnace. Prayer, Bible reading and Psalm singing\nwill not help a man much to get rid of his sins, if he keeps up a set\nof bodily habits which fire the body and inflame the soul to continue\nits sinning. That you may see the connection more clearly between\nvice and victuals, let me show you how food may damage our bodies and\ndemoralize our souls.\n\nI am fully aware of the difficulties I encounter in entering this\nthought on your minds. Because religion has been considered as having\nlittle or nothing to do with the body, I shall encounter the settled\nopinions of good men to this effect. Because our popular methods of\neating have the sanction of custom and the defense of long established\nhabits, I may not criticise them without losing the favor of those who\nare content with things as they are. Because I shall call in question\nmany indulgences of appetite hitherto considered sinless, I shall run\nthe risk of being called a fanatic or fool. Because I shall preach the\nNew Testament doctrine of self-denial many will say this is a hard\nsaying\u2014\u201cwho can bear it?\u201d But with the hope that I may unfold to you a\nglorious realm of liberty from the bondage of bodily propensities, I\ncheerfully do my duty and leave the consequences for God to look after.\n\nVery few of us are aware of the great physical demoralization and\nspiritual wickedness, brought on us and our children, by bad habits of\neating, as to the kind of food, the mode of its preparation, and the\nmanner and times of taking it. We refuse to think of our indulgences\nof appetite as the cause of our physical ailments and premature death,\nand much less will we allow ourselves to believe that these indulgences\nhave anything to do with forming our morals or shaping our characters\nor determining our eternal destiny.\n\nAnd yet I aver, without the fear of successful refutation, that\nthree-fourths of all our bodily ailments or diseases, and many of our\nimmoral acts, are the legitimate results of improper dietetic habits.\nIf these habits do not effect us directly, they do so indirectly by\nlowering the tone of the whole system, physical and moral, causing us\nto break down prematurely into some disease or deviltry, under the\npressure of legitimate toil or immoral provocation. How is it possible\nto account for the death of one half the human family before five years\nof age, unless we trace it to the violation of physical laws in some\nway connected with the eating habits alike of parent and child? Many\nchildren enter the world with such a low state of inherited physical\nvitality, and so little moral tone, that they are unable to resist\nthe attacks of bodily disease or throw it off when on them, and much\nless able to throw off moral disease and rise above their immoral\nheritage if spared to pass through childhood to years of maturity. Such\nchildren not only carry in their little bodies the physical weaknesses\nof their parents, but also the specific immoral tendencies found in\nthe conditions of their parentage. And more than this, should their\nendowment of vitality be sufficient to carry them over the death line\nfor infants, they are subject to such unnatural relations to dress and\ndiet that it becomes a natural impossibility for them to live. In this\nway many children die prematurely, not by the arbitrary edict of God,\nbut by the violation of law. And if God should save their lives by\nspecial suspension of his laws, more damage would be done to the moral\nharmony of the universe than to let them die. I know it is a common\ncustom to ascribe all sickness and death to the direct and arbitrary\naction of Divine Providence. That is, if one overeats, or eats\ninnutritious food, or at improper times, making himself sickly, so that\nhe becomes an easy prey to disease, and dies suddenly or at the noon\ntide of life, all the good people say\u2014\u201cWhat a strange Providence!\u201d As\nif God had everything to do with such a death, and the deceased had\nlittle or nothing to do with it. I incline to the opinion that Divine\nProvidence has little or nothing to do with such deaths only in so\nfar as Divine Providence is in the laws of life violated. The primary\ncause of all premature deaths is violated law. God does not arbitrarily\nkill anybody. Most of those who die in infancy or in early life, come\nto death by the violation of God\u2019s laws written in their bodies. If\nthese laws were obeyed in us and in our ancestry, most of us ought to\nlive beyond three score years and ten, and drop from this life into\nthe other in a ripe, mellow old age, just as ripe fruit drops from its\nbough in autumn time. But you ask where is God in the many untimely\ndeaths that occur? I answer He is present in his great hearted goodness\nto help the dying to an eternal victory over death, if they will only\nlet Him. He is present to bind up the hearts that are breaking with\nsorrow for the departed, and to make a sudden, untimely, and needless\ndeath a monument of warning to those still living, thus making the\nwrath of man to praise Him. If therefore our children die in infancy,\nbecause we have entailed on them feeble bodies by our violation of law,\nGod does not kill them, but they die through violated law, and he in\nHis goodness takes the little ones to His bosom, the seat and source of\nall law. Let us not then charge our sorrows to the willful enactment\nof our Heavenly Father. He taketh no pleasure in the death of him that\ndieth. When he gives life to us, He intends that we shall keep it as\nlong as possible.\n\nHaving given us life, all the forces of His boundless nature are\nengaged to maintain it in us until He is ready to harvest us as the\nfarmer does the ripened grain. The God of nature and the God of grace\nare not in antagonism. \u201cThe one God is in all and over all.\u201d A kingdom\ndivided against itself cannot stand. If, therefore, we die this side\nof three score years and ten\u2014seventy years\u2014we die untimely. It is high\ntime that good men were awake to this fact, and ceased charging over\nto Divine Providence what legitimately belongs to ourselves. \u201cJesus\nChrist came to destroy him that hath the power of death, that is the\ndevil;\u201d and when the philosophy of Jesus is wrought up into human lives\nby obedience to physical laws, the power of disease and death over\nour bodies will be very much broken. The victory over death can be so\nfar achieved by men in the body that they need not die until their\nminds and hearts have received all the development in this world that\ninfinite love ordains. That is, men may so baffle the monster of death\nby obedience to law as to keep him at bay until their souls have taken\non such Christly ripeness that they shall burst and break their bodies,\nas the ripening chestnuts break their burrs under the frosts of autumn.\nWe have, therefore, no right to ascribe to supernatural agency any\nphenomena which can be explained on natural principles. Disobedience\nto law brings penalties. There is nothing that men need to see more in\ntheir efforts at reform than the connection between their sufferings\nand their disobedience. Now, disobedience to the laws of life brings\nthe penalties, sickness and premature death. There is no field where\nour disobedience manifests itself more frequently and with so little\nthought of consequences, as in our false and unnatural habits of eating\nand drinking, which damage the body and demoralize the soul.\n\n\u201cThe Blood is the Life.\u201d This is the declaration alike of revelation and\nof science. Evolutionary processes may induce a variation in the form\nor number of the blood corpuscles, but they can not set aside the law\nthat the building and rebuilding of all the organs involved in bodily\nor mental acts comes from the blood alone. The physical, mental and\nmoral natures are so intimately connected that that which affects one,\naffects the others. So that a man\u2019s mental and moral nature, as well\nas his physical, can very largely be determined by the quality of his\nblood. Now it is a physiological fact that our blood is made out of\nthe food we eat. That food which enters the mouth and is assimilated,\nmakes blood. By the marvelous processes of digestion and assimilation\nour food is transformed into blood; and the blood passing through the\nveins and arteries repairs the waste tissues and forms new ones, thus\nbuilding up our bodies and sustaining life. It follows then that our\nbodies are made of the food we eat. Evidently it was the design of\nour Creator that the prime object of eating should be the building up\nof tissue\u2014muscles, bones and brains. That this may be a pleasure to\nus, He has associated with eating the delights of appetite. But most\nof us have so far perverted the divine order as to make the pleasures\nof appetite the chief object of eating. \u201cGive us something _good_ to\neat,\u201d is the great cry of humanity, and the goodness of food is gauged\nby the sensations of the palate and not by the law of nutrition. Most\nof us determine the goodness of our food by the amount of sensual\ndelight it imparts to the palate, no matter how much damage it may\ndo beyond to the delicate and intricate structure of the stomach and\nviscera. Hence a vast amount of food enters the mouth that makes bad\nblood, blood that in itself is corrupt, and carries poisonous particles\nto every organ in the system, putting us in splendid condition to be\neasily provoked to some outburst of anger, passion or revenge. My\nhearers, there is a sure and vital connection between bad blood and\nbad morals. Blood always tells in morals as well as in muscles. Blood\nhas power throughout the whole realm of life, whether it be in a human\nbody, in society, or in the body of a horse on the racecourse.\n\nYou ask, what kind of food makes bad blood? I answer, very much of the\nflesh of animals, that forms the staple diet of most of us. Sty-fed\npigs and stall-fed oxen are fattened under the most unlawful and\nunhealthful conditions possible; shut up in the dark, cut off from\nexercise, the fat deposited on their bodies is made up of the waste\nmatter that the life-forces of the animal have been unable to expel.\nThis waste fatty matter, surcharged with unexpelled excretions, is\nliable to induce disease in all who consume it. It has established\ntuberculosis in captive lions, and in cats and dogs, and in other\ncarnivora; and it were folly to assume that mankind, feeding upon\nsuch poisonous food, should wholly escape. Even in the living animal\nthis effete unexpelled poisonous waste breeds vermin, such as have\nbeen found in pork, which cannot be destroyed by ordinary cooking or\nby the process of digestion, and hence live and generate in the human\nbody, producing disease and death. I am not now making a plea for the\nabsolute disuse of animal food, but against the bad quality of very\nmuch of it, and also against the inordinate use of that which may be\ngood in quality. A certain amount of animal food is useful for our\nnourishment, especially in winter time, because of its heat producing\nqualities. But meat every day, and at every meal, is in no way\nnecessary for the proper sustenance of the human system.\n\nThe use of large quantities of animal food, however free from\ndisease-germs, as a _staple_ article of diet makes the blood gross,\ncoarse and corrupt, filling the body with scrofulous elements, sending\npoison to every part of the system, causing it to break out in running\nsores, salt-rheum, tetter and the like, producing an inordinate\nappetite, throwing every organ of the body into frictional relations\nto every other organ. It is a matter of every-day surprise to me\nthat any human being will consent to eat the flesh of pigs. Consider\ntheir uncleanness, their selfish, greedy habits, the vast amount of\ncorruption that enters into their bodies, their want of exercise,\ntheir impure breathing, their lack of sudorific glands or emunctories,\nthrough which effete tissues and morbid accumulations may be expelled;\nand think, when you eat pork, of the train of horrid elements which\nenter into your body. And your body thus debased by a low order of\nanimal flesh, the effect must be to make you take on the disposition\nand tendencies of the hog. God\u2019s bill of fare in the eleventh chapter\nof Leviticus excluded from the tables of the Jews the hog and all water\nanimals except those that had fins and scales. This bill of fare was\ngiven to the Jews not only for the preservation of their health, but,\nas God\u2019s great purpose was moral reform, He had an eye single to their\nmoral condition in the matter of their eating. Does any one doubt that\nthe unhealthy, ugly, and vicious elements that make up the flesh of\nmost of the animals we eat, enter our blood, and in that way affect the\ndisposition or carriage of the soul? I am confident, if there was less\ndemand for animal food the quality would be very much better. Animals\nwould not be subject to false and unhealthy generation, and false and\nhasty methods of growth. They would come up more in keeping with the\nlaws of their nature, and come to us with more healthy and better\nqualities. As for the hog, if man would not domesticate him, he could\nnot propagate his species. He would become extinct just like the lion,\nleopard, and hyena, under the march of civilization. As the blessings\nof civilized life reach us, you notice the carnivorous or flesh-eating\nanimals become extinct. So it seems to me that with the developments of\ncivilization there ought to be such moral refinements in human beings\nthat they would grow away from their carnivorous tendencies, and eat\nsuch food as tends to develop the mental and moral faculties, and not\nthe animal propensities. Among animals you find that those that live on\nthe flesh of other animals are the most vicious and destructive, such\nas the lion, leopard, and hyena. Those animals that live on the grains\nand the higher order of foods are the best, most beautiful, and most\nuseful, such as the horse and cow. If this law obtains among animals,\nwhy not among men? Beyond a doubt it does. If you want proof of this,\nstudy the character and lives of those who live largely on animal food,\nand you will find them very animal-like in all their relations\u2014restive,\nimpatient, passionate, ugly in their ways, fiery in their disposition,\neasily provoked, readily put out of humor. And if you could look into\ntheir private lives you would find all their baser qualities having the\nfullest sway, stopping, it may be, inside the fence of human laws and\ncustoms, but seldom considering the claims of a higher and divine law.\nI charge, then, very much of our household misery, domestic woe, and\nconnubial wretchedness, to unrestrained lust begotten in the body by\nthe inordinate use of animal food.\n\nWe forget, my hearers, that the great law of nature, \u201cLike produces\nlike,\u201d is universal. \u201cEvery seed after its kind is the law of all\ncreation.\u201d There is no exception to this law. This principle obtains\nnot only in the production of life, but in the processes of its\ndevelopment. If my position about the intimacy of soul and body is\ntrue, then, if a man\u2019s body is made up chiefly of flesh taken from\ndiseased animals, and his whole physical frame is saturated with the\nirritating and exciting condiments of what is popularly called good\nfood, the whole bias of his bodily powers will be toward animalism.\nAll the impressions and impulses that the soul receives from such a\nbody are beastly and debasing. Like produces like in the formation of\nphysical tissue out of food, as well as in the generation of stock in\nthe stall. Hence I hold that very much of the wickedness of mankind\nis the natural expression of physical beastliness rather than the\noutflow of innate viciousness. A body made up largely of all manner of\nnerve-goading, passion-producing, anger-generating elements, such as\nare found in the gross animal dishes with their stimulating adjuncts,\njust as surely drives the soul to sin as a tempest drives a feather\nbefore it.\n\nAs modern research has proved that bad or imperfect food when\ndigested surely makes bad or imperfect blood, incapable of performing\nits appointed work of upbuilding and of reparation, so has science\ndemonstrated that perfect food is one of the most potent among\nremedies for the relief of many diseased conditions. Since the blood\nis the life, and since blood is merely food emulsified, mingled with\ncertain digestive fluids and colored by the oxygen with which it is\nbrought in contact in the lungs\u2014it is easy to understand how perfect\nfood may create perfect blood, which shall presently supplant that\nwhich is feeble, that which is lacking in waste-repairing power, that\nwhich fails to give strength to the muscles or vigor to the brain,\nand may thus become the most effective medicine. A perusal of recent\nprofessional medical literature evinces the great stress which is now\nlaid upon dietetics in the treatment of all diseases. The approach to\nthis high altitude has been gradual, but sure. At first foods were made\nthe vehicles for drugs; and cod-liver oil and malt-extracts, which are\nonly concentrated foods of the hydro-carbon varieties, were loaded with\nlime and iron and strychnine and phosphorous and scores of other drugs.\nBut perfect results were secured by the use of these foods without\nthe drug additions, and so the foods were at last given the credit\nwhich all along belonged to them. And so it has come to pass that with\nadvanced medical men, in a vast majority of cases of sickness, the\nsupport of the life-powers by proper nutrients is the foremost thought,\nthe best food proving to be the best medicine.\n\nThe kind of food a man eats, and the time and manner of his eating it,\nare not merely a question of medicine, but one of the first questions\nof morals. The effects of food on the passions and feelings are thus\ndescribed by Prior:\n\n    \u201cObserve the various operations\n    Of food and drink in several nations;\n    Was ever Tartar fierce and cruel\n    Upon the strength of water gruel?\n    But who shall stand his rage and force\n    When first he rides, then eats, his horse?\n    Salads and eggs and lighter fare,\n    Tune the Italian spark\u2019s guitar;\n    And if I take Don Confrere right,\n    Pudding and beef make Britons fight.\u201d\n\n\nIf, therefore, our meat has something to do with our morals, or if our\nfood in some way affects our faith, it seems to me that many of our\nefforts at moral reform ought to be preceded by instruction in hygiene.\nIn other words, efforts to make a man genuinely devotional ought to be\nprefaced by efforts to correct bad dietetic habits. A father, by prayer\nand precept and flogging, had done his best to reform his boy, whose\nstaple diet was meat and sausage and pie and cake at his meals, with\nlunch between. The family physician said to the father, \u201cIf you will\nput a leech back of each of your boy\u2019s ears once a week for a month,\nyou will do more to reform him than your preaching and pounding will do\nin a year.\u201d The father asked for the philosophy of this prescription.\n\u201cWhy,\u201d said the doctor, \u201cyour boy has bad blood, and too much of it;\nhe must behave badly or he would burst.\u201d \u201cThen,\u201d said the father,\n\u201cI\u2019ll change his diet from beef and pie to hominy and milk.\u201d In three\nmonths thereafter a better boy for his age could not be found in the\nneighborhood. The acrid, biting, evil blood had not become food for\nleeches, but it had done its wicked work and passed away, and a cooler,\nblander, purer, safer blood had been supplied from sweeter, gentler\nfood sources.\n\nIn your use of animal food be very particular as to quality and\nquantity. Lamb and mutton are considered the most healthy by the\nauthorities. Avoid as you would contagion the use of pork, unless you\nraise it yourselves, and feed it with good grain, and not the refuse\nof the house or barn, and keep the animals as clean as you do your pet\ndogs. Never fry your meat with hogs\u2019 lard, but stew, bake, boil, or\nbroil it. Use hogs\u2019 lard in no form for cooking. Most of it is said to\nbe reeking with scrofulous elements. Displace it in _all_ your cooking\nby milk or butter. If you want to aid and not hinder the growth of your\nsoul Godward, if you desire to have pure thoughts and a pure heart and\na pure life, see that you make your blood out of pure food, or you\nwill find that your soul will have an enemy within the castle of its\nbody more treacherous and deadly than any of its enemies without.\n\nThere is another popular article of food among us, which has a vital\nconnection with bodily disorders and bad exhibition of character. Good\nin proper quantities and in its sphere, when made the largest and chief\narticle of diet, for every meal, the one kind of food upon which we\ndepend most for building up the wastes of our bodies, it indirectly\ndoes great damage. I refer to the ordinary fine flour bread made out of\nbolted wheat meal.\n\nIt is proper to remember that the white flour from which our bread\nis chiefly made, and which is deemed the staff of life, is a purely\nartificial product\u2014a selection from that perfect food combination\nwhich exists in wheat. A competent food chemist has compared the\nregular milling processes to one by which the fat part of an ox should\nbe saved for food, and the lean part\u2014the albuminous or nitrogenous\nportion\u2014discarded and given to the dogs. The comparison is well based,\nsince the starch of wheat, which is valued because of its whiteness,\nis a carbo-hydrate, chemically allied to the fat of meat; while the\ndark nutriment of wheat, which, because of its color, is discarded with\nthe bran with which it is found in contact in nature, is a vegetable\nnitrogenous albumen, rich in mineral elements, and almost identical,\nchemically, with the lean or muscular tissue of beef.\n\nThe process of bolting or refining takes from the wheat most of the\nphosphates and nitrates, the elements that are chiefly required for\nmaking nerves, muscles, bones, and brains. The phosphates and nitrates\nbeing removed by bolting, very little remains in the flour except\nthe starchy carbonates, the heat and fat producing elements. The use\nof fine flour bread as a staple article of food introduces too much\nheat and fat-producing elements into the system, and where there is\ntoo much carbon or heating substance, it tends rather to provoke the\nsystem to unnatural and abnormal action, and instead of serving as an\nelement to warm the body, its tendency is to burn or consume, heating\nand irritating all the organs, getting one into that state which is\npopularly known as \u201chot-blooded.\u201d The fine white flour ordinarily\nused has two-thirds of the nitrogenous and mineral nutriment that God\nput in the wheat taken out. Unless these deficiencies are made up by\nsome other foods, the exclusive use of fine flour bread will leave\nthe nerves and bones poorly nourished, producing in some systems\nnervousness, dyspepsia, and all the physical ills that follow these\ndiseases, together with impatience, fretfulness, and irritability. God\nintended that all the nutritive properties He put in the wheat should\nstay in it for purposes of symmetrical nourishment. Fine flour bread\nmay be used for purposes of producing heat in the system, but it does\nnot feed hungry nerves or starving bones.\n\nOne reason why children fed chiefly on white bread feel hungry nearly\nall the time, and demand so much food between meals, is found in the\nfact that their bodies are insufficiently nourished. Their bones\nand nerves not receiving the nitrates and phosphates they need, are\nsuffering from hunger.\n\nWhen children are fed with food that thoroughly nourishes their whole\nsystem, they will seldom desire to eat between meals and thus retard\nthe process of digestion and lay the foundation for dyspepsia and all\nits kindred evils.\n\nFlour made of all the nutriment of pure white wheat, unbolted, yet\nwithout the shell or husk or bran, contains all the elements necessary\nfor the nourishment of the body. The flour called Graham flour rarely\ncontains these elements. There is a great deal of bogus stuff in the\nmarket, which has brought the genuine article into disrepute, and made\nmany thoughtful people disgusted with everything in that line. Very\nmuch that is called Graham flour is made up of a mixture of fine bolted\nflour, and the woody fibre of the wheat, which has no nutriment in it\nat all. This wretched fabrication has tended to make all whole wheat\nproducts unpopular. The woody bran is worse than worthless as food,\nor to mix with food. You might as well eat the shells of nuts, or the\nhusks of corn, or the skins of potatoes, as the silex coats of wheat.\nTo overload the alimentary canal with such foreign indigestible matter\nhas no other tendency but to weaken and debilitate it. Very few millers\ntrouble themselves to make a perfect whole wheat flour. I know but one\nestablishment in the world where wheat and other grains are treated\nprecisely as they should be, with all the harmful part removed and the\nrest made digestible by harmless methods, and that is the Health Food\nCompany of New York.[1]\n\n[1] See Appendix, page 30.\n\nBread leavened, or unleavened, made out of what is called the Cold\nBlast Whole Wheat Flour, makes more muscle and furnishes more food for\nthe nerves than any other article of food given to man except the pure\ngluten of wheat. I am not now advocating the views of the extremists,\nthe Grahamites, neither do I counsel the disuse of fine flour bread.\nThis latter should be used in connection with unbolted flour, but\nshould not be relied on to furnish you with all the nutritious elements\nthat your bodies need. There is a golden mean between the extremes\nof vegetarianism and exclusive flesh diet which the common sense of\nthoughtful people will find. During the warm season a diet made up\nchiefly of fruits, grains, and vegetables will be most healthful\nfor body and soul. Instead of the scrofula-breeding pork or ham for\nbreakfast, use some one of the great variety of grains, especially\noat-meal, than which there are few better foods for growing children\nand hard working adults. Instead of fried cakes, rich pastry, and\ncandies, use fruit, of which there is an abundant variety, ten-fold\nmore nourishing than pies or cakes, and very cleansing to the blood.\nLet brown bread, Johnnie-cake, and corn-meal pudding supplant fine\nwheat bread as much as possible. Eat your meals regularly and slowly,\neating nothing between them. Eat sparingly of meat at mid-day, and let\nit be good fresh beef, mutton, or fish, well cooked. Let the evening\nmeal be taken not later than six o\u2019clock. Discard tea and coffee, and\nmake your own coffee with browned crusts of bread, or burned whole\nwheat.[2] Follow these suggestions and you will find very many of the\nills of your body departing and very many of the troubles you have in\nbehaving yourselves, vanishing.\n\n[2] The Health Food Company prepare a \u201cCereal Coffee\u201d from Wheat Gluten\nand Barley, which not only makes a delicious beverage, but tends\nto greatly strengthen both body and brain. Those who would release\nthemselves from the dangerous practice of tea-drinking, and the less\ninjurious but still objectionable use of the commercial coffees, will\ndo well to try this nutrient beverage.\n\nAgain, we derange our bodies and demoralize our souls by eating too\nmuch. The great end of life with many of us is to eat. The American\ndining-room has become, for the most part, a place for the indulgence\nof animalism, and not for the development of the affections or social\nqualities. A distinguished American physician said: \u201cI am sixty-six\nyears old, and I have eaten enough food to answer my wants for 100\nyears, and yet I am what most people call a small eater.\u201d The popular\nhabit of using, inordinately, appetizers in the shape of the ordinary\ntable condiments, begets a false and unnatural appetite. The time comes\nwhen honest food palls upon the depraved senses. The pampered, jaded\nappetite no longer finds satisfaction in simple food-flavors; the\npalate must be prompted with pungent things. The cook, who is never a\nphysiologist, responds to the demand for spurs to appetite, and finds\nthem in mixtures of spices and peppers and mustards and acids and\nessential oils and chemicals, and multitudes of non-food substances.\nWith these, and various biting alcohols, the delicate lining of the\nstomach is inflamed, inducing a desire for food which passes for what\nit is not, namely, honest appetite. The palate demands more food than\nthe stomach can digest or the system assimilate. Poor nature, anxious\nto do the best she can, adapts herself to the unnatural situation,\nand forces all the other organs to do the same; and thus we become\naccustomed to over-eating and do not know it.\n\nThat all who accustom themselves to a stimulating diet, to spices and\nwines and other irritating things, consume too much food, cannot, I\nthink, be gainsayed. The amount and kind of food needed depends upon\nthe individual habits and the kind of waste to be supplied. A wholly\nidle man should thrive well on cucumbers and water-melons, which are\nchiefly water; while the hard-working hod-carrier would demand several\npounds of solid carbon and nitrogen daily. It is the sedentary, the\nwell-to-do, the man of leisure, who suffers most from over-eating; and\nit behooves him to carefully avoid all goads and spurs to appetite.\nWith the simplest flavors he is nearly certain to over-eat and thus to\nsuffer. With an appetite stimulated and induced, without corresponding\nout-door labor to create a genuine need and demand for it, digestive\nfailure and assimilative bankruptcy is only a question of time.\n\nThe stomach, overloaded, performs its work imperfectly, and thus\nimposes on all the organs an extra amount of work, which breaks them\ndown prematurely, causing diseases of every kind, such as nervous\nheadache, sick headache, rush of blood to the head, apoplexy, sore\neyes, deafness, erysipelas, neuralgia of the face, decayed teeth,\ncatarrh, bronchitis, asthma, nausea, common colic, congestion of the\nliver, and a host of other diseases too unpleasant to mention. In some\ncases there is a disposition of too much fatty matter in the system;\nand many people suppose that fatness is a sign of healthfulness, which\nis false. No one needs any more fat on his body than is essential to\nform cushions for his tendons and muscles; if too much, there is a\ndepletion of strength.\n\nThe crowded and overloaded condition of the system makes the body take\non very many false manifestations. The irritation produced in an\novercharged system manifests itself in different forms in different\nindividuals. In some it produces nervousness, making them rack the\nflesh off their bones and keeping them poor; and in others it produces\nsluggishness, retaining defunct matter in the system, making them\ncorpulent. As I have said, our highly-seasoned foods create morbid and\nabnormal appetites.\n\nAs a consequence we eat too much and too often, the system being borne\ndown by overwork in its digestive department, there comes a demand for\nstimulating drinks and medicines to take off the depression and to keep\nup tone; and to make ourselves feel good, after having made ourselves\nfeel bad, by improper eating, some of us resort to tea and coffee, and\nothers to alcohol, and then the excitement produced demands a sedative,\nand some of us smoke and others chew a poisonous weed called tobacco.\nThus the poor body, subject to these revulsions of unnatural action in\noverwork and stimulation and sedation, is goaded to abnormities and\nunnatural action, sending up to the soul no other influences but those\nwhich drive it to moral madness and vicious deeds.\n\nNow, vice is a morbid exhibition of the will. The will is represented\nthrough the physical organ, the brain, and the brain is straightway\naffected by the condition of the body and the state of the blood. The\nwill is that power of the mind by which we put forth volitions and\nperform actions. If the pressure of bad blood is on the brain, that\nsame pressure is on the will; hence a sick man or a diseased man will\ndo a great many bad things through the power of bad blood on the will.\nVice, then, is both the result and cause of physical derangement.\nHence that vice of vices, drunkenness.\n\nDrunkenness may be caused by bad physical conditions, brought about\nby bad habits of eating. Would it not be well for us to look into\nbad table habits for one of the reasons why so many of our young men\nbecome drunkards? May there not be some cause working in the flesh\nof our youths, driving them to intemperance? May it not be possible\nthat kind fathers and mothers for years have been filling up the awful\ngap of 40,000 dead drunkards annually by feeding their children upon\nstimulating, highly-seasoned, innutritious foods? There is no doubt\nin my mind that every man is a glutton before he is a drunkard. If\nnature\u2019s laws are violated, a man\u2019s sensations will be all abnormal,\nand the mainsprings of his life will be befouled, and the result\nwill be irregular and vicious expressions of all the appetites, both\nfor food and drink. I am, therefore, confident that the widespread\nappetite for intoxicating liquors is largely due to the false relations\nthat the American people hold to their food. We cannot hope much\nfrom moral suasion and legal enactments so long as we overlook the\nphysical condition of the drunkard. If you would cure disease or vice\neffectually, you must shut off that which nourishes them, instead of\nputting all your force in efforts to antidote them. \u201cLet the wicked\nforsake his way,\u201d and then turn unto the Lord, and he will have mercy\non him, and to our God, and he will abundantly pardon him. There are\n200,000 drunkards in the United States, 40,000 of whom go annually to\npremature graves. There are 20,000 prostitutes, whose average life\nin their profession is four years. Do you believe this vast army of\nimmortals go willingly to ruin? There are causes lying back of mere\nperversities of soul in the common every-day dietetic habits of these\nforlorn ones.\n\nEating and drinking are always associated with the bar and brothel,\nand if you will take notice, the eating is always of that kind of\nfood which goes straight for the animal nature, and wakes up in a man\neverything that is beastly.\n\nThe whole tendency of the food furnished at the popular bar-room\nrestaurant is to stir the baser elements in humanity and keep up the\ndemand for alcoholic stimulants. No wonder the drinking saloons can\nafford to give what they call a \u201cfree lunch.\u201d Care is taken to furnish\nsuch food as fires the appetite for strong drink, and the rum-seller\ngets his pay for his \u201cfree lunch\u201d through the sale of the whisky that\nmust inevitably follow it. Those who, living on highly stimulating\nfoods, but do not drink strong drinks, will find that the bias of their\nbodily powers, instead of being toward mental and spiritual spheres,\nwill be toward animal indulgences, dragging the mind and soul into\nservitude to the flesh, and where there are any moral aspirations,\nmaking the conflict between the higher and lower nature so intense that\na vast amount of moral force is wasted in self-conflict that ought to\ngo into the world\u2019s redemptive agencies for saving the lost.\n\nI am confident that the American habit of eating sumptuous and late\nsuppers, whether at our homes or church fairs or festivals, is damaging\nthe physical, mental, and moral health of our nation more than any\nother one thing of its kind; more damaging, because it has the\nappearance of innocency, and the sanction of our fathers and mothers\nand some of our pastors.\n\nFurthermore, the habit of eating hurriedly, or hastily, is preying\nupon the vital and moral forces of many of us. A meal eaten hastily or\nnervously, under the pressure of intense mental activity or nervous\ntension, or great weariness, begins its work of nutrition under the\ngreatest possible disadvantage. All our meals should be eaten calmly\nand deliberately, so as to thoroughly masticate the food, and not\nimpose on the stomach and viscera the legitimate work of the teeth.\nIn the interest of health to soul as well as body I enter an earnest\nplea for more time for eating, and especially at noon, when most hard\nworking people take their principal meal. Clerks, business men, and\nschool teachers, mechanics, laborers, and our children who attend the\npublic schools, need more time at noon to properly dispose of the chief\nmeal of the day. No better investment could be made to secure the best\npossible physical, intellectual, financial, and moral returns than for\nall classes of people to take two hours at mid-day for resting and\neating dinner. Selfish greed demands otherwise, and makes a show of\ngain; but the loss is sure to come in due time to all parties concerned.\n\nMy friends, when will we fast-living, fast-eating, fast-working, and\nfast-dying Americans learn the great lesson, that life is a unit,\nthat the Divine Trinity in us, namely, the physical, intellectual,\nand spiritual, is one life, with different phases of expression; and\nwhatever mars one mars the whole, and whatever builds up one most\nsurely builds up the others? All our powers are many members in one\nbody, with an inter-dependence which is eternal. Slight your body,\nand you smite your soul and enervate the mind. Corrupt the mind, and\nyou debase both body and soul. When will those who profess to be God\u2019s\nchildren by the adoption of the Holy Ghost, catch the Spirit of His\ngreat Apostle Paul, who, more than any other sacred writer, maintained\nthe sanctity of the human body and its subservience to the mind and\nsoul. Hear him: \u201cI beseech you, brethren, by the mercies of God that\nye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God,\nwhich is your reasonable service, and be not conformed to this world,\nbut be ye transformed by the renewing of your minds, that ye may prove\nwhat is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.\u201d I admit the\npower of the Holy Ghost in the work of regeneration, but is there not\nsomething for us to do, in keeping our bodies under, \u201clest we become\ncast-aways?\u201d I do not say that _all_ human evils and ills have their\nprimary origin in physical habits, but I do say that the great mass\nof impulsions from the excited, inflamed, over-stimulated body toward\nthe soul, are in the interests of sin. The economy of salvation orders\notherwise. By the Gospel the body may become the temple of the Holy\nGhost. By the law of self-denial of the New Testament, our bodies, with\nall their fiery elements, may be made an inspiration to our souls.\nIt is not the purpose of God that a life-time warfare shall be kept\nup between the body and the soul. There ought to come to every true\nChristian a day of final victory over his bodily powers, in which they\nwill cease their rebellion, and come into the sweetest union with the\nsoul in its great work of developing a likeness to Christ.\n\nWhy are we called upon to present the body a living sacrifice to God,\nif its powers are not to be sanctified to holy purposes? Why should we\nspend all our life waiting for the adoption of our whole nature, to\nwit, the redemption of the body, as well as the soul.\n\nOur fondest dreams for the progress of humanity must be based in a\nnewly created body by strict obedience to the laws of God, written on\nevery fibre, tissue, muscle, and bone. We cannot develop the human\nbrain and heart to the possibilities that God has put in them, while\nthey are the tenants of bodies the laws of which are violated in the\ncommonest habits of every-day life.\n\nRegeneration does a mighty work for us; but generation has also much\nto do with our highest and best development. The sins of the fathers\nmust cease, so that the sons may be spared their terrible visitations;\nthe accumulated virtues of parents must roll over on their children in\npurer, stronger, and better bodies until by a blessed economy the whole\nrace shall be exalted to heirship with Christ through loving obedience\nto all the laws of physical as well as moral life.\n\nWhy may we not now, under the laws of redemption, begin to build a new\nheaven and a new earth, new souls and new bodies. If our souls are\nredeemed and renewed by obedience and faith, why not secure also the\nredemption of our bodies? I know it is slow work to teach the subtle\nbut mighty elements of self-restraint. I know the flesh lusteth against\nthe spirit. Yet I thank God who giveth us the victory through our Lord\nJesus Christ.\n\n\n\n\n                               APPENDIX.\n\n\nIn complying with the request of Messrs. Fowler & Wells for the\nmanuscript of this sermon for publication, I should fall far short of\nmy duty if I did not allude more particularly than seemed appropriate\nin a Sabbath sermon, to the valuable work which is being done by the\nHealth Food Company, and to the great excellence of its products. If\nthese remarks were addressed to physicians, the simple mention of the\nname of the company would suffice, because there are probably very\nfew medical men and women who are not aware of the good work of this\norganization in the matter of providing perfect foods for invalids of\nevery type, as well as for such as are in health and are solicitous\nthus to continue. The work of the company has, from the beginning,\nbeen under the wise direction of a scientific head, himself an\noriginal investigator, and having an ample acquaintance with all the\ntruths which have been evolved by modern scientific research. While\nit is very important that physicians should know all that is to be\nknown concerning improved forms of diet, in order that their large\nopportunities for conveying valuable information to the world may not\ngo unused, I deem it of even greater moment that the vast body of\nintelligent readers and church-goers should be made aware of the fact\nthat in the matter of food and its preparation there are laws which\nare not comprehended by ignorant cooks, which may not be violated with\nimpunity, the scope and importance of which are being more perfectly\nunderstood from year to year, and which, in their practical application\nby intelligence and skill, are capable of accomplishing a grand work in\nthe up-building and re-building of human bodies and brains. Especially\nam I desirous that my brethren in the ministry\u2014many of whom, I am\npersuaded, suffer from unsupplied waste of brain and nerve power\u2014should\nmore fully appreciate the fact that while waste of the grosser tissues\nof the body may be supplied by common forms of food, such foods may\nnearly or quite fail to supply or replenish the waste of the delicate\nbrain and nervous system; and should understand how the best foods for\nthe active brain-worker can be procured.\n\nA dyspeptic myself, a member of a dyspeptic family, and observing\nmuch of that kind of misery and weakness which arises from digestive\nfeebleness, I have been compelled to study the subject of food in its\nrelation to bodily and mental and moral well-being, during many years;\nand it is not less a pleasure than a duty to say that an intimate\nacquaintance with the researches of the Health Food Co. and its\nproducts, has convinced me that this organization is the center and\nsource of the best information obtainable in any land, on the subject\nof dietetics; that the food which it prepares from many substances,\nespecially from the cereal grains, are the best in the world; and that\nall who seek to live wisely and well, all who are strong and would\ncontinue so, all who are feeble and would fain be strong, all in whom\nthe spirit to lead noble and useful lives is willing, but in whom the\nflesh, alas! is weak\u2014owe it to themselves and to all whom they have\npower to influence, to learn all that can be learned concerning the\ngreat work of this company. In this brief Appendix it is not possible\nto allude, even remotely, to all its investigations in the domain of\ndietetics, nor to fully indicate the valuable results which it has\nachieved. I shall be justified, however, in referring to a few of its\nmore prominent applications of scientific thought to the daily needs of\nhumanity.\n\nIt knew that the white commercial flour of wheat, by whatever \u201cnew\nprocess,\u201d or under whatever brand, was a robbed, impoverished food,\nand that attached to the bran or husk\u2014which is excluded as it should\nbe\u2014there is a layer of nitrogeneous substance which goes to the cows\nand horses. It deemed it a pity that human bodies and brains should\nbe deprived of just what it most needed for perfect support\u2014this\nwheat nitrogen, so rich in the useful minerals without which there is\nno adequate up-building of every tissue. So it devised a method of\nremoving all the woody, branny, siliceous coats from the grain without\nwasting one atom of the nutriment. Seeing that ordinary mill-stone\ngrinding tended to heat and impair the flour, it devised other and\nbetter methods of pulverizing. To-day, as for years past, their whole\nwheat flour is not a coarse, harsh, branny mixture, like what is called\n\u201cGraham,\u201d but a perfect, natural, nourishing bread-food, with nothing\ntaken from it that is useful, and without the obnoxious addition of\ngrit from rapidly revolving millstones, or the woody fibre and silex\nwhich form the protecting, innutritious shell. Thus the theories of\nthe value of bread from the entire wheat berry, advanced by Dr. John\nC. Warren, of Boston, in 1825, and subsequently urged by Dr. Sylvester\nGraham, were taken up by the head of the Health Food Company, sustained\nin part and exploded in part, while the small residue of truth really\nexisting in the Grahamite philosophy, modified and improved by exact\nexperiments and by scientific methods, has at length been made of\nreal value to the human race instead of continuing to be a source\nof possible, and often of positive injury, by virtue of the errors\noriginally attending it. The perfect, branless flour of the entire\ngrain is called the COLD BLAST WHOLE WHEAT FLOUR, and is, beyond\nquestion, the most perfect bread-food in the world.\n\nAgain, chemistry long ago proved that the nitrogenous, albuminous\nelement of the great food staples (the cereal grains) known as GLUTEN,\nwas the chief source of muscular tissue in animals, whether obtained\nfrom grasses, seeds, or other vegetable substances; that it could be\ndigested in a mixture of 1 part gastric juice and 10 parts water; that\nit could be separated from its universal attendant, starch, by washing;\nand that a kind of tasteless, insipid bread could then be made from\nit, which was understood to be useful in a disease called diabetes.\nUp to a few years ago these facts comprised pretty much all that the\nscientific world knew about GLUTEN. It was known to exist; Koopman,\nthe German chemist, had shown it to be readily digestible; and it was\nnon-convertible into sugar, and therefore a safe food for those to whom\nstarch, or the sugar which results from digested starch, is little\nless than poison. These slender facts were not sufficient to satisfy\nthe accurate investigator at the head of the Health Food Co. He deemed\nit probable that this easily digested GLUTEN, this source of all the\ntissues of the ox except the fatty ones, would be found to be of vast\nvalue as a separate food for human beings, if while being practically\nisolated from the starch and bran associates which nature provides,\nit could still retain the pleasant grainy flavor of the cereal which\nsupplies it. He began a series of investigations to determine the\nsource of the agreeable flavor existing in sound wheat, and\u2014as modified\nby milling and cooking\u2014in commercial wheat flour and the foods prepared\ntherefrom. The results of the researches of Prof. Henry B. Hill,\nof Harvard University, and of those contemporaneously conducted by\nAdolph Baeyer, of Munich, led him to conclude that to the oil known as\n\u201cfurfurol,\u201d existing in the exterior bran and interior cellulose of the\ngrain, the flour and bread chiefly owed their desirable flavors. The\ncellulose of the interior of the wheat was found to contain enough of\nthe flavoring oil to impart to the insipid gluten an agreeable taste.\nAccordingly, methods were devised for separating the gluten and the\ncellulose from most of the starch, these three elements alone remaining\nafter the bran coats were peeled off.\n\nThis \u201cwhole wheat gluten,\u201d as it is termed by the company, has proved\na most valuable food, not only for the diabetic, to whom it seems to\npresent the chief hope of recovery, but to the dyspeptic and feeble,\nwhether in brain or body. Its use has been attended with such signally\nsuccessful results as to attract the attention of large numbers of\nprominent medical men, among whom I may mention Prof. Austin Flint, of\nBellevue Hospital Medical College, New York city, who passes upon it a\nwarm encomium in his last great volume. [See Flint\u2019s Clinical Medicine,\npp. 452-53.]\n\nIf I did not feel quite certain that the vast majority of those who\nshall peruse this paragraph would seek from the Health Food Company, or\nfrom some of its many agents in various parts of the country, the very\nable and interesting pamphlets which it mails free to all applicants,\nI should deem it my duty to allude to other and not less valuable\napplications of scientific thought to the vast problems involved in\nthe preparation of foods for humanity, from infancy to old age. To\nadequately describe them all, would require a volume; let me content\nmyself with an allusion to one or two of the many.\n\nThere is a digestive element existing in the saliva and in the fluid\ncalled the \u201cpancreatic juice,\u201d which bears the name of \u201cdiastase.\u201d This\ndiastase exists nowhere outside of the animal economy, except in seeds\nduring the process of germination, or sprouting. When the seed, or\ncereal, or vegetable, is exposed to proper influences of moisture and\nwarmth, such, for example, as are supplied by the earth in spring-time,\nthe process of germination begins, and from the germ diastase is\nliberated. The function of the diastase thus set free is the conversion\nof the food elements in the seed into assimilative nutriment for the\nyoung and tender plant. It is the digestant of food, whether the\nthing fed be plant or animal. Now, while physiologists have long been\nready to concede that when, as is common in diseased conditions, this\nimportant digestant is absent from the saliva and pancreatic juice,\nthe conversion of all starchy foods is suspended, it has not been\nsupposed that diastase has any marked influence upon the emulsification\nand digestion of food-substances not containing starch, nor had any\nfood-chemist availed himself of the diastase in cereals, if I except\nthe development and possible subsequent retention, to some extent, of\ndiastase in some of the preparations of malt. The Health Food Company\ndevelops and employs the cereal diastase in a most effective way. It\nremoves the germinal molecules from wheat and barley, reduces them to\npowder, forms the powder into a dough, encloses it in a steam-tight\nvessel and subjects the vessel and contents for a protracted period to\na temperature of 150\u00baF. The latent diastase is thus brought into being,\nwhile the low temperature and the close vessel completely prevent its\nvolatilization and loss. The diastatic dough is subsequently dried and\npowdered, and is then packed and labeled, ready for use, demanding no\ncooking, and no other preparation than simple moistening with milk\nor water. Used with milk it is found to prevent that tough and curdy\ncoagulation which renders milk so oppressive, \u201cbilious\u201d and indigestible\nin many cases. The name given to this diastatic food which I have\nmentioned, is \u201cThe Universal Food,\u201d a name suggested by a leading\nphysician, who believed it to be universally applicable to enfeebled\nconditions in which better nourishment was needed. It is admirably\nadapted to the nourishment of infants, as diastase is almost entirely\nlacking during the first years of life, and may wisely be supplied from\nexterior sources.\n\nThe Company\u2019s great work for the multitude, however, is in the\npreparation of wheat, oats, barley, rye, corn, peas, beans, and other\nseeds. These are perfectly cleansed from all impurities, the outer\nbran-coats, husks, and pellicles are removed, and the interior,\nsoluble, digestible food-portion is admirably prepared for ready\ncooking. Persons who have a distaste for Graham and crushed wheat, and\noat-meal and other cereals, find in the Fine Granulated Wheat, the\nCoarse Granulated Wheat, the Pearled Wheat, Pearled Oats, Granulated\nOats, Granulated Barley, Rye, Corn, etc., manufactured by this Company,\ndelicious foods, which, once adopted, are continued from choice.\n\nI leave this important subject with my readers, again urging them\nto seek to learn more concerning it. To be placed in possession of\ninformation which I do not assume to be competent to impart, it is only\nnecessary that you address a postal card to the Health Food Company,\nNo. 74 Fourth Ave., cor. 10th street, New York, N. Y., asking for all\nits Health Food literature, and appending your address, and you will be\nquite certain to receive the entertaining pamphlets by due course of\nmail. The agents of the company, also, cordially respond to calls for\ncirculars and orders for the Health Foods.\n\n\nLet me ask my readers not to content themselves with sending for and\nperusing, however carefully, the instructive pamphlets of the Health\nFood Company. If you are sick you will do well to describe your\ncondition by letter to the company, and its medical head will write\nyou which of the foods are adapted to your case; you can then order a\nsupply of such as he advises. If you are in good health and merely seek\nto supply yourself with delicate and nutritive substances which will\nhave the effect to keep you strong and well, you will be able to select\nfrom their list, without special advice. Advice from the medical man\nof the organization costs nothing, however, and should be asked in all\ndoubtful or diseased states. J. F. C.\n\n\n\n\n                         Health Food Company\u2019s\n\n                            LIST OF AGENTS:\n\n\n    =Main Office=, 74 Fourth Avenue New York City.\n\n    7 Clinton Street                   Brooklyn, N. Y.\n    199 Tremont Street                 Boston, Mass.\n    632 Arch Street                    Philadelphia, Pa.\n    2227 Walnut Street                 St. Louis, Mo.\n    4934 Main Street                   Germantown. Pa.\n    965 Grand Street                   New Haven, Ct.\n    17 Central Row                     Hartford, Ct.\n    217 Ross Street                    Brooklyn, E. D., N. Y.\n    191 Genesee Street                 Utica, N. Y.\n    1436 Wabash Avenue                 Chicago, Ill.\n    1325 F. Street                     Washington, D. C.\n    214 Main Street                    Elizabeth, N. J.\n    132 East Main Street               Rochester, N. Y.\n    217 Sutter Street                  San Francisco, Cal.\n    426 Pine Street                    San Francisco, Cal.\n    951 Broadway                       Oakland, Cal.\n    306 Lexington Street               Baltimore, Md.\n    34 Washington Avenue S.            Minneapolis, Minn.\n    273 W 5th Street                   St. Paul, Minn.\n    No. 1 North Bruntsfield Place      Edinburgh, Scotland.\n\n\nAN UNSOLICITED LETTER FROM A PROMINENT PHYSICIAN OF NEW YORK.\n\n\u201c_To The Health Food Company, 74 4th Avenue, New York._\n\n  GENTLEMEN:\u2014\n\nI should like to state to your Company the great success I have had\nin using your Gluten Suppositories, and the advisability of letting\nthe medical profession generally know of this simple and efficacious\nremedy for constipation. I have prescribed these Suppositories almost\ndaily in my practice this winter, and have often been astonished at the\npermanent results obtained. It seems that in great torpor of the rectum\nand descending colon it is especially useful.\n\nI recollect a little girl in 52nd street, where the constipation was so\ngreat that very often\u2014much against my will\u2014I was forced to administer\na dose of Castor Oil. Since the use of these Gluten Suppositories she\nhas remained well\u2014over six months. It does not cure _all_ cases, but in\nall the instances where patients have given it a good, fair trial, some\nbenefit has been derived.\n\nYou may utilize this endorsement if it will make this remedy more\nwidely known among the profession.\n\n  Respectfully,\n  J. MONTFORT SCHLEY, M. D.,\u201d\n\n\n _Surgeon to N. Y. Ophthalmic Hospital, Professor Physical Diagnosis\n Women\u2019s Medical College; Attending Physician at Hahnemann Hospital,\n &c._\n\n\n\n\n  THE HEALTH FOOD COMPANY OF NEW YORK\n\n\nIs now in the twelfth year of its existence. Its valuable and important\nwork has been recognized and commended by thousands of physicians, by\nmany writers for the medical and general press, and by multitudes of\nthe sick and suffering who have found health and comfort through its\nproducts. It has had many imitators, but it has conscientiously adhered\nto its original mission of preparing\n\n\nPerfect Foods for Sick and Well.\n\nBasing its work upon exact science, and being presided over by a\nscientific man, it has gained the support and co-operation of the\nscientific world. A year or two since, a competitor in the manufacture\nof a single article, known as \u201cWhole Wheat Flour,\u201d secured the\npublication of an article from the pen of a Dr. Ephraim Cutter\u2014styling\nhimself \u201ca microscopist\u201d\u2014in which he asserted his ability to determine\nthe relative percentages of gluten and starch by the use of the\nmicroscope alone. He furthermore said that while the food-value of\na bread-flour depended upon its percentage of gluten, the various\nflours of the Health Food Company contained no gluten whatever; and\nthat the flour made by the \u201cFranklin Mills\u201d (Dr. Cutter\u2019s employer)\nwas so rich in gluten as to make it \u201ca blessing to mankind.\u201d These\ngrossly absurd statements called forth some very scathing criticisms\nand much ridicule by the medical and secular press, and induced Prof.\nR. H. Thurston, of the Stevens Institute of Technology\u2014who had derived\nbenefit from the Health Foods\u2014to invite his colleague, Prof. Albert\nN. Leeds, Public Analyst for the State of New Jersey and Professor of\nChemistry in the Stevens Institute, to microscopically examine and\nchemically analyze the food substances alluded to, for the purpose of\ndetermining the accuracy or inaccuracy of Cutter\u2019s statements, and,\nfurthermore, to settle the question of the value of the \u201cmicroscopic\nanalysis,\u201d for which so much had been claimed by Cutter. Prof. Leeds\u2019\ncareful work conclusively showed that the microscope was _valuable to\ndetect adulterations_, but valueless as a means of determining the\npercentages of the various natural constituents of a cereal flour;\nso he proceeded to apply the crucial test of chemical analysis, with\nstriking results. (In our limited space we can only briefly quote from\nthe Professor\u2019s published statement, but we are assured that he will\ncheerfully mail a copy of the pamphlet to any one who shall address\nhim at the College named, situated in Hoboken, New Jersey.) Premising\nthat wheat in its natural state contains, on the average, about 12\nper cent. of albuminoids\u2014chiefly gluten\u2014he found in the Health Food\nCompany\u2019s Whole Wheat Flour 16.74 per cent. of this substance. Of the\n\u201cFranklin Mills\u201d flour, said to be made from \u201centire wheat,\u201d he writes:\n\u201cIt contains 8.55 per cent. of albuminoids, chiefly gluten, together\nwith a very large percentage of cellulose or finely-ground bran. It is\ngreatly lacking in nutritive elements.\u201d\n\nProf. Leeds testifies that the Glutens prepared by the Health Food\nCompany are richer in the gluten element than any which he has been\nable to obtain, whether of American or foreign origin, and more than\ntwice as rich as a so-called gluten made by Farwell & Rhines, of\nRochester. He also finds by analysis that \u201cRobinson\u2019s Prepared Barley\nFlour\u201d contains only 5.13 per cent. of albuminoids, while the Health\nFood Company\u2019s barley flour, retailing for less than one-eighth as\nmuch, contains 13.83 per cent., showing it to be nearly three times\nas rich in substantial nutriment. The flours and foods of the Health\nFood Company are nourishing in health and remedial in sickness. Their\ngood work is in the improvement of the blood-making processes, in\nbetter digestion, in increased nutrition. It is their function to ably\nsupplement all such remedial measures as skill and science may suggest.\nMany physicians have testified to the increased readiness of diseases\nto yield to their treatment when the patients have been sustained by\nthe bland, soluble, non-irritating, nourishing nutriments prepared by\nthe Health Food Company. Its products still stand at the head of the\nlong list of food-preparations for infants and invalids, for the sick\nwho seek to recover health and strength, for the strong who desire to\nremain strong. It has elevated food and its preparation to the dignity\nof a science, and has sought to render itself wholly worthy of the warm\nencomiums so ably pronounced by scholars, physicians, and scientists,\nconspicuous among whom stand the Rev. John F. Clymer and Prof. Austin\nFlint.\n\nPamphlets, price-lists, and all particulars are freely mailed to all\ninquirers. Address,\n\nHEALTH FOOD COMPANY,\n74 Fourth Avenue, cor. Tenth Street,\nnext door to Stewart\u2019s, New York, N. Y.\n\n\n\n\nWORKS PUBLISHED BY\n\nFOWLER & WELLS CO., New York.\n\n\nPHRENOLOGY AND PHYSIOGNOMY.\n\n =Phrenological Journal and Science of Health.=\u2014Devoted to Ethnology,\n Physiology, Phrenology, Physiognomy, Psychology, Sociology, Biography,\n Education, Literature, etc., with Measures to Reform, Elevate, and\n Improve Mankind Physically, Mentally, and Spiritually. Monthly, $2.00\n a year; 20c. a number. Bound vols. $3.00.\n\n =Expression=: its Anatomy and Philosophy. Illustrated by Sir Charles\n Bell. Additional Notes and Illustrations by SAMUEL R. WELLS. $1.\n\n =Education of the Feelings and Affections.= Charles Bray. Edited by\n NELSON SIZER. Cloth, $1.50.\n\n This work gives full and definite directions for the cultivation\n or restraining of all the faculties relating to the feelings or\n affections.\n\n =Combe\u2019s System of Phrenology=; With 100 Engravings. $1.25.\n\n =Combe\u2019s Constitution of Man=; Considered in Relation to external\n objects. With twenty engravings, and portrait of author. $1.25.\n\n The \u201cConstitution of Man\u201d is a work with which every teacher and every\n pupil should be acquainted.\n\n =Combe\u2019s Lectures on Phrenology=; with Notes, an Essay on the\n Phrenological Mode of Investigation, and an Historical Sketch, by A.\n BOARDMAN, M. D. $1.25.\n\n =Combe\u2019s Moral Philosophy=; or, the Duties of Man considered in his\n Individual, Domestic, and Social Capacities. $1.25.\n\n =How to Study Character; or, the True Basis for the Science of Mind.=\n Including a Review of Bain\u2019s Criticism of Phrenology. By Thos. A.\n Hyde. 50c.; clo. $1.00.\n\n =New Descriptive Chart=, for the Use of examiners in the Delineation\n of Character. By S. R. Wells. 25c.\n\n =New Physiognomy; or, Signs of Character=, as manifested through\n Temperament and External Forms, and especially in the \u201cHuman Face\n Divine.\u201d With more than One Thousand Illustrations. By Samuel R. Wells.\n In one 12mo volume, 768 pages, muslin, $5.00; in heavy calf, marbled\n edges, $8.00; Turkey morocco, full gilt, $10.00.\n\n \u201cThe treatise of Mr. Wells, which is admirably printed and profusely\n illustrated, is probably the most complete hand-book upon the subject\n in the language.\u201d\u2014_N. Y. Tribune._\n\n =How to read Character.=\u2014A new illustrated Hand-book of Phrenology and\n Physiognomy, for Students and Examiners, with a chart for recording\n the sizes of the different Organs of the brain in the Delineation of\n Character; with upward of 170 Engravings. By S. R. Wells. $1.25.\n\n =Wedlock; or, The Right Relations of the Sexes.= Disclosing the Laws\n of Conjugal Selection, and showing Who May Marry. By S. R. Wells.\n $1.50; gilt, $2.00.\n\n =Brain and Mind=; or, Mental Science Considered in Accordance with the\n Principles of Phrenology and in Relation to Modern Physiology. H. S.\n DRAYTON, M. D., AND J. MCNEIL. $1.50.\n\n This is the latest and best work published. It constitutes a complete\n textbook of Phrenology, is profusely illustrated, and well adapted to\n the use of students.\n\n =Indications of Character=, as manifested in the general shape of the\n head and the form of the face. H. S. DRAYTON, M. D. Illus. 25c.\n\n =How to Study Phrenology.=\u2014With Suggestions to students, Lists of Best\n Works, Constitutions for Societies, etc. 12mo. paper, 10c.\n\n =Choice of Pursuits; or What to Do and Why.= Describing Seventy-five\n Trades and Professions, and the Temperaments and Talents required for\n each. With Portraits and Biographies of many successful Thinkers and\n Workers. By Nelson Sizer. $1.75.\n\n =How to Teach According to Temperament and Mental Development=;\n or, Phrenology in the Schoolroom and the Family. 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The book is really a great Album of\n Portraits, and will be found of interest for the illustrations alone.\n\n =Memory and Intellectual Improvement=, applied to Self-Education and\n Juvenile Instruction. By O. S. FOWLER. $1.00.\n\n The best work on the subject.\n\n =Hereditary Descent.=\u2014Its Laws and Facts applied to Human Improvement.\n By O. S. Fowler. Illustrated. $1.00.\n\n =The Science of the Mind applied to Teaching=: Including the Human\n Temperaments and their influence upon the Mind; The Analysis of the\n Mental Faculties and how to develop and train them; The Theory of\n Education and of the School, and Normal Methods of teaching the common\n English branches. By Prof. U. J. HOFFMAN. Profusely illustrated. $1.50.\n\n =Reminiscences= OF DR. SPURZHEIM AND GEORGE COMBE, and a Review of the\n Science of Phrenology from the period of the discovery by Dr. GALL to\n the time of the visit of GEORGE COMBE to the United States, with a\n portrait of Dr. SPURZHEIM, by NAHUM CAPEN, L.L.D. Ex. clo. $1.25.\n\n =Education and Self-Improvement Complete=; Comprising \u201cPhysiology,\n Animal and Mental,\u201d \u201cSelf-culture and Perfection of Character,\u201d\n \u201cMemory and Intellectual Improvement.\u201d By O. S. FOWLER. One large vol.\n Illus. $3.00.\n\n =Self-Culture and Perfection of Character=; Including the Management\n of Children and Youth. $1.00.\n\n One of the best of the author\u2019s works.\n\n =Physiology, Animal and Mental=: Applied to the Preservation and\n Restoration of Health of Body and Power of Mind. $1.00.\n\n =Phrenology Proved, Illustrated, and Applied.= Embracing an Analysis\n of the Primary Mental Powers in their Various Degrees of Development,\n and location of the Phrenological Organs. The Mental Phenomena\n produced by their combined action, and the location of the faculties\n amply illustrated. By the Fowler Brothers. $1.25.\n\n =Self-Instructor in Phrenology and Physiology.= With over One Hundred\n Engravings and a Chart for Phrenologists, for the Recording of\n Phrenological Development. By the Fowler Brothers. 75c.\n\n =Phrenological Miscellany of Illustrated Annuals of Phrenology\n and Physiognomy=, from 1865 to 1878 combined in one volume,\n containing over 400 illustrations, many portraits and biographies of\n distinguished personages. $1.50.\n\n =Redfield\u2019s Comparative Physiognomy=; or, resemblances Between Men and\n Animals. Illustrated. $2.50.\n\n =Phrenology and the Scriptures.=\u2014Showing the Harmony between\n Phrenology and the Bible. 15 cents.\n\n =Phrenological Chart.= A Symbolical Head 12 inches across,\n Lithographed in colors, on paper 19 \u00d7 24 inches, mounted for hanging\n on the wall, or suitable for framing. $1.00.\n\n =Education; its Elementary Principles Founded on the Nature of Man.=\n By J. G. Spurzheim, $1.25.\n\n =Natural Laws of Man.=\u2014A Philosophical Catechism. Sixth Edition.\n Enlarged and improved by J. G. Spurzheim, M.D. 50 cents.\n\n =Lectures on Mental Science.=\u2014According to the Philosophy of\n Phrenology. Delivered before the Anthropological Society. By Rev. G.\n S. Weaver. Illustrated. $1.00.\n\n =Phrenological Bust.=\u2014Showing the latest classification and exact\n location of the Organs of the Brain. It is divided so as to show each\n individual Organ on one side; with all the groups\u2014Social, Executive,\n Intellectual, and Moral\u2014classified, on the other. Large size (not\n mailable) $1. Small 50 cents.\n\n\nWORKS ON MAGNETISM.\n\nThere is an increasing interest in the facts relating to Magnetism,\netc., and we present below a list of Works on this subject.\n\n =Library of Mesmerism and Psychology.=\u2014Comprising the Philosophy of\n Mesmerism, Clairvoyance, Mental Electricity.\u2014FASCINATION, or the\n Power of Charming. Illustrating the Principles of Life in connection\n with Spirit and Matter.\u2014THE MACROCOSM, or the Universe Without,\n being an unfolding of the plan of Creation and the Correspondence\n of Truths.\u2014THE PHILOSOPHY OF ELECTRICAL PSYCHOLOGY: the Doctrine\n of Impressions, including the connection between Mind and Matter,\n also, the Treatment of Diseases.\u2014PSYCHOLOGY, or the Science of\n the Soul, considered Physiologically and Philosophically; with an\n Appendix containing Notes of Mesmeric and Psychical experience and\n Illustrations of the Brain and Nervous System. $3.50.\n\n =Philosophy of Mesmerism.=\u2014By Dr. John Bovee Dods. 50 cents.\n\n =Philosophy of Electrical Psychology=, A course of Twelve Lectures.\n $1.00.\n\n =Practical Instructions in Animal Magnetism.= By J. P. F. Deleuze.\n Translated by Thomas C. Hartshorn. New and Revised edition, with\n an appendix of notes by the Translator, and Letters from Eminent\n Physicians, and others. $2.00.\n\n =History of Salem Witchcraft.=\u2014A review of Charles W. Upham\u2019s great\n Work from the _Edinburgh Review_, with Notes by Samuel R. Wells,\n containing, also, The Planchette Mystery, Spiritualism, by Mrs.\n Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Dr. Doddridge\u2019s Dream. $1.00.\n\n =Fascination; or, the Philosophy of Charming.= Illustrating the\n Principles of Life in connection with Spirit and Matter. By J. B.\n Newman, M.D. $1.00.\n\n =How to Magnetize, or Magnetism and Clairvoyance.=\u2014A Practical\n Treatise on the Choice, Management and Capabilities of Subjects with\n Instructions on the Method of Procedure. By J. V. Wilson. 25c.\n\n\nHEALTH BOOKS.\n\n_This List Comprises the Best Works on Hygiene, Health, Etc._\n\n =Health in the Household, or Hygienic Cookery=; by Susanna W. Dodds,\n M. D. 12mo. ex. clo, $2.00.\n\n A novice in housekeeping will not be puzzled by this admirable book,\n it is so simple, systematic, practical and withal productive of much\n household pleasure, not only by means of the delicious food prepared\n from its recipes, but through the saving of labor and care to the\n housewife.\n\n =Household Remedies.=\u2014For the prevalent Disorders of the Human\n Organism, by Felix Oswald, M. D. 12mo. pp. 229, $1.00.\n\n The author of this work is one of the keenest and most critical\n writers on medical subjects now before the public; he writes soundly\n and practically. He is an enthusiastic apostle of the gospel of\n hygiene. We predict that his book will win many converts to the faith\n and prove a valuable aid to those who are already of the faith but are\n asking for \u201cmore light.\u201d Among the special ailments herein considered\n are Consumption, Asthma, Dyspepsia, Climatic Fevers, Enteric\n Disorders, Nervous Maladies, Catarrh, Pleurisy, etc.\n\n =The Temperaments, or Varieties of Physical Constitution in Man=,\n considered in their relation to Mental Character and Practical Affairs\n of Life. With an Introduction by H. S. Drayton, A. M., Editor of the\n PHRENOLOGICAL JOURNAL. 150 Portraits and other illustrations, by D. H.\n Jacques, M. D. $1.50.\n\n =How to Grow Handsome, or Hints toward Physical Perfection=, and the\n Philosophy of Human Beauty, showing How to Acquire and Retain Bodily\n Symmetry, Health and Vigor, secure long life and avoid the infirmities\n and deformities of age. New Edition, $1.00.\n\n =Medical Electricity.=\u2014A Manual for Students, showing the most\n Scientific and Rational Application to all forms of Diseases, of the\n different combinations of Electricity, Galvanism, Electro-Magnetism,\n Magneto-Electricity, and Human Magnetism, by W. White, M. D. $1.50.\n\n =The Man Wonderful in the House Beautiful.=\u2014An allegory teaching the\n Principles of Physiology and Hygiene, and the effects of Stimulants\n and Narcotics, by Drs. C. B. and Mary A. Allen. $1.50.\n\n To all who enjoy studies pertaining to the human body this book will\n prove a boon. The accomplished physician, the gentle mother, the\n modest girl, and the wide-awake school-boy will find pleasure in its\n perusal. It is wholly unlike any book previously published on the\n subject, and is such a thorough teacher that progressive parents\n cannot afford to do without it.\n\n =The Family Physician.=\u2014A Ready Prescriber and Hygienic Adviser, With\n Reference to the Nature, Causes, Prevention and Treatment of Diseases,\n Accidents and Casualties of every kind, with a Glossary and copious\n Index. Illustrated with nearly three hundred engravings, by Joel Shew,\n M. D. $3.\n\n =How to Feed the Baby to Make her Healthy and Happy=, by C. E. Page,\n M. D. 12mo., third edition, revised and enlarged. Paper, 50c, extra\n cloth, 75c.\n\n This is the most important work ever published on the subject of\n infant dietetics.\n\n =The Natural Cure of Consumption=, Constipation, Bright\u2019s Disease,\n Neuralgia, Rheumatism, Colds, Fevers, etc. How these Disorders\n Originate, and How to Prevent Them. By C. E. Page, M. D., cloth, $1.00.\n\n =Horses, their Feed and their Feet.= A Manual of Horse Hygiene.\n Invaluable to the veteran or the novice, pointing out the true sources\n of disease, and how to prevent and counteract them. By C. E. Page. M.\n D. Paper 50c.; cloth 75c.\n\n This is the best book on the care of horses ever published, worth many\n times its cost to every horse owner.\n\n =The Movement Cure.=\u2014The History and Philosophy of this System of\n Medical Treatment, with examples of Single Movements, The Principles\n of Massage, and directions for their Use in various Forms of Chronic\n Diseases. New edition by G. H. Taylor, M. D., $1.50.\n\n =Massage.=\u2014Giving the Principles and directions for its application in\n all Forms of Chronic Diseases, by G. H. Taylor, M. D. $1.00.\n\n =The Science of a New Life.=\u2014By John Cowan, M. D. Ex. clo. $3.00.\n\n =Tobacco: Its Physical, Intellectual and Moral Effects on the Human\n System=, by Dr. Alcott. New and revised edition with notes and\n additions by N. Sizer. 25c.\n\n =Sober and Temperate Life.=\u2014The Discourses and Letters of Louis\n Cornaro on a Sober and Temperate Life. 50c.\n\n =Smoking and Drinking.= By James Parton. 50c.; cloth, 75c.\n\n =Food and Diet.= With observations on the Dietetical Regimen, suited\n for Disordered States of the Digestive Organs, by J. Pereira, M. D.,\n F.R.S. $1.50.\n\n =Principles Applied to the Preservation of Health= and the Improvement\n of Physical and Mental Education, by Andrew Combe, M. D. Illustrated,\n cloth, $1.50.\n\n =Water Cure in Chronic Diseases.= An Exposition of the Causes,\n Progress, and Termination of various Chronic Diseases of the Digestive\n Organs, Lungs, Nerves, Limbs and Skin, and of their Treatment by Water\n and other Hygienic Means. By J. M. Gully, M. D. $1.25.\n\n =Science of Human Life.= With a copious Index and Biographical Sketch\n of the author, Sylvester Graham. Illustrated, $3.00.\n\n =Management of Infancy, Physiological and Moral Treatment.= With Notes\n and a Supplementary Chapter, $1.25.\n\n =Diet Question.=\u2014Giving the Reason Why, from \u201cHealth in the\n Household,\u201d by S. W. Dodds, M. D. 25c.\n\n =Health Miscellany.=\u2014An important collection of Health Papers. Nearly\n 100 octavo pages. 25c.\n\n =How to Be Well, or Common Sense Medical Hygiene.= A book for the\n People, giving directions for the Treatment and Cure of Acute Diseases\n without the use of Drug Medicines; also General Hints on Health. $1.00.\n\n =Foreordained.=\u2014A Story of Heredity and of Special Parental\n Influences, by an Observer. 12mo. pp. 90 Paper, 50c.; extra cloth, 75c.\n\n =Consumption=, Its Prevention and Cure by the Movement Cure. 25c.\n\n =Notes on Beauty, Vigor and Development=; or, How to Acquire Plumpness\n of Form, Strength of Limb and Beauty of Complexion. Illustrated. 10c.\n\n =Tea and Coffee.=\u2014Their Physical, Intellectual and Moral Effects on\n the Human System, by Dr. Alcott. New and revised edition with notes\n and additions by Nelson Sizer. 25c.\n\n =Accidents and Emergencies=, a guide containing Directions for the\n Treatment in Bleeding, Cuts, Sprains, Ruptures, Dislocations, Burns\n and Scalds, Bites of Mad Dogs, Choking, Poisons, Fits, Sunstrokes,\n Drowning, etc., by Alfred Smee, with Notes and additions by R. T.\n Trall, M. D. New and revised edition. 25c.\n\n =Special List.=\u2014We have in addition to the above, Private Medical\n Works and Treatises. This Special List will be sent on receipt of\n stamp.\n\n\nWORKS ON HYGIENE BY R. T. TRALL, M. D.\n\n_These works may be considered standard from the reformatory hygienic\nstandpoint. Thousands of people owe their lives and good health to\ntheir teaching._\n\n =Hydropathic Encyclopedia.=\u2014A System of Hydropathy and Hygiene.\n Physiology of the Human Body; Dietetics and Hydropathic Cookery;\n Theory and Practice of Water-Treatment; Special Pathology and\n Hydro-Therapeutics, including the Nature, Causes, Symptoms and\n Treatment of all known diseases; Application of Hydropathy to\n Midwifery and the Nursery with nearly One Thousand Pages including a\n Glossary. 2 vols. in one. $4\n\n =Hygienic Hand-Book.=\u2014Intended as a Practical Guide for the Sick-room.\n Arranged alphabetically. $1.25.\n\n =Illustrated Family Gymnasium.=\u2014Containing the most improved methods\n of applying Gymnastic, Calisthentic, Kinesipathic and Vocal Exercises\n to the Development of the Bodily Organs, the invigoration of their\n functions, the preservation of Health, and the Cure of Diseases and\n Deformities. $1.25.\n\n =The Hydropathic Cook-Book=, with Recipes for Cooking on Hygienic\n Principles. 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C. 25 cts.;\n clo., 50 cents.\n\n =Water-Cure for the Million.=\u2014The processes of Water-Cure Explained,\n Rules for Bathing, Dieting, Exercising, Recipes for Cooking, etc.,\n etc. Directions for Home Treatment. Paper, 15 cts.\n\n =Hygeian Home Cook-Book; or, Healthful and Palatable Food without\n Condiments.= 25 cts.; clo., 50 cents.\n\n =Diseases of Throat and Lungs.=\u2014Including Diphtheria and its Proper\n Treatment. 25 cents.\n\n =The Bath.=\u2014Its History and Uses in Health and Disease. 25c.; clo.,\n 50c.\n\n =A Health Catechism.=\u2014Questions and Answers. With Illus. 15c.\n\n\n\n\nA NEW BOOK.\n\nHEALTH IN THE HOUSEHOLD;\n\nOR,\n\nHYGIENIC COOKERY.\n\nBy SUSANNA W. DODDS, M.D.\n\nOne large 12mo vol., 600 pp., extra cloth or oil-cloth, Price, $2.00.\n\n\nThe author of this work is specially qualified for her task, as she\nis both a physician and a practical housekeeper. It is unquestionably\nthe best work ever written on the healthful preparation of food, and\nshould be in the hands of every housekeeper who wishes to prepare\nfood healthfully and palatably. The best way and the reason why are\ngiven. It is complete in every department. To show something of what is\nthought of this work, we copy a few brief extracts from the many\n\n\nNOTICES OF THE PRESS.\n\n \u201cThis work contains a good deal of excellent advice about wholesome\n food, and gives directions for preparing many dishes in a way that\n will make luxuries for the palate out of many simple productions of\n Nature which are now lost by a vicious cookery.\u201d\u2014_Home Journal._\n\n \u201cAnother book on cookery, and one that appears to be fully the\n equal in all respects, and superior to many of its predecessors.\n Simplicity is sought to be blended with science, economy with all\n the enjoyments of the table, and health and happiness with an ample\n household liberality. Every purse and every taste will find in Mrs.\n Dodds\u2019 book, material within its means of grasp for efficient kitchen\n administration.\u201d\u2014_N. Y. Star._\n\n \u201cThe book can not fail to be of great value in every household to\n those who will intelligently appreciate the author\u2019s stand-point.\n And there are but few who will not concede that it would be a public\n benefit if our people generally would become better informed as to the\n better mode of living than the author intends.\u201d\u2014_Scientific American._\n\n \u201cShe evidently knows what she is writing about, and her book is\n eminently practical upon every page. It is more than a book of recipes\n for making soups, and pies, and cake; it is an educator of how to make\n the home the abode of healthful people.\u201d\u2014_The Daily Inter-Ocean_,\n Chicago, Ill.\n\n \u201cThe book is a good one, and should be given a place in every\n well-regulated cuisine.\u201d\u2014_Indianapolis Journal._\n\n \u201cAs a comprehensive work on the subject of healthful cookery,\n there is no other in print which is superior, and which brings the\n subject so clearly and squarely to the understanding of an average\n housekeeper.\u201d\u2014_Methodist Recorder._\n\n \u201cIn this book Dr. Dodds deals with the whole subject scientifically,\n and yet has made her instructions entirely practical. The book\n will certainly prove useful, and if its precepts could be\n universally followed, without doubt human life would be considerably\n lengthened.\u201d\u2014_Springfield Union._\n\n \u201cHere is a cook-book prepared by an educated lady physician. It\n seems to be a very sensible addition to the voluminous literature on\n this subject, which ordinarily has little reference to the hygienic\n character of the preparations which are described.\u201d\u2014_Zion\u2019s Herald._\n\n \u201cThis one seems to us to be most sensible and practical, while yet\n based upon scientific principles\u2014in short, the best. If it were in\n every household, there would be far less misery in the world.\u201d\u2014_South\n and West._\n\n \u201cThere is much good sense in the book, and there is plenty of occasion\n for attacking the ordinary methods of cooking, as well as the common\n style of diet.\u201d\u2014_Morning Star._\n\n \u201cShe sets forth the why and wherefore of cookery, and devotes the\n larger portion of the work to those articles essential to good blood,\n strong bodies, and vigorous minds.\u201d\u2014_New Haven Register._\n\n\nThe work will be sent to any address, by mail, post-paid, on receipt of\nprice, $2.00. AGENTS WANTED, to whom special terms will be given. Send\nfor terms. Address\n\nFOWLER & WELLS CO., Publishers, 775 Broadway, New York.\n\n\n\n\nHealthful and Palatable.\n\n\nThe most important question with all interested and intelligent\nhousekeepers should be \u201cWhat can I prepare for my table that will be\nHEALTHFUL and PALATABLE?\u201d The world is full of Cook Books and Receipt\nBooks, but in nearly every case not the slightest attention is given to\nthe health and strength giving qualities of the dishes described, and\na large part of the directions are useless (for never followed) and in\nmany cases harmful (if tried).\n\nWhat is needed is a practical work in which these conditions are\ncarefully considered and one which is simple enough to be easily\nunderstood.\n\nA recent publication, HEALTH IN THE HOUSEHOLD, by Dr. S. W. Dodd, a\nlady physician and a practical housekeeper, covers this ground very\nfully and can be recommended. It considers the value of the different\nfood products, the best methods of preparation, and the reason why.\n\n The Chicago _Inter-Ocean_ says: \u201cShe evidently knows what she is\n writing about, and her book is eminently practical upon every page. It\n is more than a book of recipes for making soups, and pies, and cakes;\n it is an educator of how to make the home the abode of healthful\n people.\u201d\n\n \u201cShe sets forth the why and wherefore of cookery, and\n devotes the larger portion of the work to those articles essential to\n good blood, strong bodies, and vigorous minds,\u201d says _The New Haven\n Register_.\n\nHousekeepers who consult this will be able to provide for the household\nthat which will positively please and increase the happiness by\nincreasing the healthful conditions.\n\nIt contains 600 large pages, bound in extra cloth or oil cloth binding,\nand is sold at $2. Sent by mail or express, prepaid, on receipt of\nprice. Address\n\nFOWLER & WELLS CO., Publishers, 775 Broadway, N.Y.\n\n\n THE NATURAL CURE: CONSUMPTION, DYSPEPSIA, NERVOUS DISEASES, GOUT,\n RHEUMATISM, INSOMNIA (SLEEPLESSNESS), BRIGHT\u2019S DISEASE, ETC. BY C. E.\n PAGE, M.D. 12MO, CLOTH, $1.00.\n\n\nA FEW OF THE MANY NOTES FROM READERS.\n\nJ. RUSS, Jr., Haverhill, Mass., says: \u201cDr. Page\u2019s explanation of the\ncolds question is alone worth the price of a hundred copies of the\nbook\u2014it is, in fact, invaluable, going to the very root of the question\nof sickness.\u201d Mrs. W. O. THOMPSON, 71 Irving Place, Brooklyn, N.\nY., says: \u201cI wish every friend I have could read it, and, only that\nhygienists never harbor ill-feeling, that my enemies might not chance\nto find it. I owe much to the truths made clear in \u2018Natural Cure,\u2019 and\nit is certain that to it and the professional attendance of the author,\nmy sister-in-law owes her life and present robust health.\u201d\n\nFROM A TEACHER.\n\nMrs. S. S. GAGE, teacher in the Adelphi Academy, Brooklyn, N. Y., says:\n\u201cMy friend, Mrs. Thompson, recommended this book (\u2018Natural Cure\u2019) to\nme. Thanks to her and \u2018the book,\u2019 my old headaches trouble me no more;\nI am better in every way. I never could accomplish so much and with\nso little fatigue; and I am sure that all my intellectual work is of\nbetter quality than it ever was before.\u201d\n\nFROM A HUSBAND.\n\nD. THOMPSON, Lee, N. H., says: \u201cThrough following the advice in\n\u2018Natural Cure\u2019 my headaches, which have tortured me at frequent\nintervals for forty years, return no more. Formerly I could not work\nfor three days at a time, now I work right along. For this, as well as\nfor the restoration of my wife to health, after we had given her up as\nfatally sick, I have to thank Dr. Page and \u2018The Natural Cure.\u2019\u201d\n\nFROM THE WIFE.\n\nMrs. S. E. D. THOMPSON, Lee, N. H. says: \u201cI can not well express\nmy gratitude for the benefit I have received from the book and its\nauthor\u2019s personal counsel. Condemned to die, I am now well. It is truly\nwonderful how the power of resting is increased under the influence of\nthe regimen prescribed. I have distributed many copies of this book,\nand have known of a _life-long asthmatic cured, biliousness removed,\nperennial hay-fever banished_ for good, and other wonderful changes\nwrought, by means of the regimen formulated in \u2018Natural Cure.\u2019 A friend\nremarked: \u2018It is full of encouragement for those who wish to live in\nclean bodies.\u2019 Another said: \u2018It has proved to me that I have been\ncommitting slow suicide.\u2019 Our minister says: \u2018I have modified my diet\nand feel like a new man.\u2019\u201d To this Mrs. Thompson adds, for the author\u2019s\nfirst book, \u201cHOW TO FEED THE BABY\u201d: \u201cI have known of a number of babes\nchanged from colicky, fretful children to happy well ones, making them\na delight to their parents, by following its advice.\u201d\n\nWILLIAM C. LANGLEY, Newport, R. I., says: \u201cWhile all would be benefited\nfrom reading it, I would especially commend it to those who, from\ninherited feebleness, or, like myself, had declined deeply, feel the\nneed of making the most of their limited powers. I may add, that this\nwork bears evidence that the author has had wide range, and extensive\nreading, together with a natural fitness for physiological and hygienic\nresearch, keen perception of natural law and tact in its application.\u201d\n\nMrs. Dr. DENSMORE, 130 West 44th Street, New York, says: \u201cYou can judge\nof my opinion of \u2018Natural Cure\u2019 when I tell you that I am buying it\nof the publishers by the dozen to distribute among my patients.\u201d\n\nTHE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY for September, 1883, speaks highly of the\nwork, closing with, \u201cthe public has in this work a most valuable manual\nof hygiene.\u201d\n\nTHE ATLANTIC MONTHLY for August, 1883, says: \u201cIt is an effort at\nimpressing common-sense views of preserving and restoring health.\u201d\n\nSent by mail, post-paid, on receipt of price, $1.00. Address\n\n  FOWLER & WELLS CO., _Publishers_,\n  775 Broadway, New York.\n\n\nA STORY WORTH READING.\n\nABOUT HUMAN NATURE.\n\n\n[Illustration: THE LABYRINTH (the inner ear)]\n\nWe have recently published a volume containing a story of Human Nature\nwhich will be found of interest. It is called \u201cThe MAN WONDERFUL in\nthe HOUSE BEAUTIFUL,\u201d and is an allegory, teaching the principles of\nPhysiology and Hygiene, and the effects of Stimulants and Narcotics.\nThe House is the Body, in which the Foundations are the Bones, the\nWalls are Muscles, the Skin and Hair the Siding and Shingles, the\nhead an Observatory in which are found a pair of Telescopes, and\nradiating from it are the nerves which are compared to a Telegraph,\nwhile communications are kept up with the Kitchen, Dining-room,\nPantry, Laundry, etc. The House is heated with a Furnace. There are\nalso Mysterious Chambers, and the whole is protected by a Burglar\nAlarm. In studying the inhabitant of the House, the \u201cMan Wonderful,\u201d we\nlearn of his growth, development, and habits of the guests whom he\nintroduces. He finds that some of them are friends, others are doubtful\nacquaintances, and some decidedly wicked. Under this form, we ascertain\nthe effects of Food and Drink, Narcotics and Stimulants.\n\nIt is a wonderful book, and placed in the hands of children will\nlead them to the study of Physiology and Hygiene, and the Laws of\nLife and Health in a way that will never be forgotten. The book will\nprove of great interest even to adults and those familiar with the\nsubject. The authors, Drs. C. B. and Mary A. Allen, are both regular\nphysicians, and therefore the work is accurate and on a scientific\nbasis. \u201cScience in Story\u201d has never been presented in a more attractive\nform. It is universally admitted that a large proportion of sickness\ncomes from violations of the laws of Life and Health, and therefore it\nis important that this subject should be understood by all, as in this\nway we may become familiar with all the avoidable causes of disease.\nThe reading of this book will very largely accomplish this end. It will\nbe sent securely by mail, prepaid, on receipt of price, which is only\n$1.50. Address\n\nFowler & Wells Co., Publishers, 775 Broadway, New York.\n\n\nTHE FAMILY PHYSICIAN,\n\nA READY PRESCRIBER AND HYGIENIC ADVISER, WITH REFERENCE TO THE CAUSES,\nPREVENTION AND TREATMENT OF DISEASE.\n\n\u201cWHAT THEY SAY\u201d\u2014NOTICES OF THE PRESS.\n\nWe give a few of the favorable notices which this work has received:\n\n\n It possesses the most practical utility of any of the author\u2019s works,\n and is well adapted to give the reader an accurate idea of the\n organization and functions of the human frame.\u2014_New York Tribune._\n\n The work is admirably simple, clear, and full, and no popular work\n that we ever saw had half its claims to notice. We hope it may have a\n wide circulation. Its mission is a most important one. It lies at the\n foundation of all other missions of reform. Let the world be informed\n in regard to the laws of health, and every other reform will have\n its way cleared. Till then, every effort for moral and intellectual\n improvement can be only partially and feebly effective.\u2014_Boston\n Ledger._\n\n Without the fear of our family physician before our eyes, we say\n that this is a very good book to have in families. It contains much\n valuable instruction in the art of preserving and restoring health,\n which every man of common sense, who understands anything about the\n human frame, will see at once is, and must be, sound and reliable.\n It might, almost any day, be the means of saving a valuable life. We\n are honestly of the conviction that every household in the land would\n lessen its complaints and doctor\u2019s bills, if they would read it and\n follow its suggestions.\u2014_Boston Congregationalist._\n\n The different cases upon which it treats number over _nine hundred_ in\n each of which the symptoms, the cause, and the _manner of treatment\n are given in full_.\u2014_Clinton Tribune._\n\n There is not a subject relating to health but what it treats upon, in\n an able manner.\u2014_Howard Gazette._\n\n Its 516 pages abound with thousands of facts and suggestions of the\n _highest importance to all_.\u2014_Christian Inquirer._\n\n It is the best work of the kind we have ever seen upon the subject,\n and ought to be _in every family_.\u2014_Advertiser._\n\n It is very elaborate, and is one of the very best of medical works.\n Every family should have a copy.\u2014_Star of the West._\n\n It is worth its weight in gold.\u2014_Ellsworth Herald._\n\n We know of no book comparable to this as THE BOOK for a\n family.\u2014_Columbia Democrat._\n\n It is a very able and excellent work, and one which we can heartily\n recommend to every family; it is everything that its name purports to\n be.\u2014_Scientific American._\n\n It is a very comprehensive, valuable work, and cannot fail to exert a\n salutary effect upon the public mind.\u2014_Baltimore Sun._\n\n We have no hesitancy in pronouncing it _a very useful book_, and one\n which should be in the possession of _every family_.\u2014_Beaver Dam\n Republican._\n\n Familiarity with its contents will save many dollars\u2019 worth of drugs,\n and avert many weary days and months of sickness.\u2014_Musical World._\n\n The work embodies _a vast amount_ of information in regard to the\n structure and diseases of the human frame, which will be read with\n profit.\u2014_N. England Farmer._\n\n Not only are diseases described, and the appropriate treatment pointed\n out, but numerous examples are given, which cannot fail to interest\n the reader, and prove a _very acceptable family directory_.\u2014_Boston\n Traveler._\n\n It is exceedingly comprehensive, and well illustrated. It contains\n a great deal of information and sound advice, which every reader,\n whatever his views on medicine, would consider valuable.\u2014_New York\n Courier._\n\n A complete encyclop\u00e6dia of every disease to which the human family is\n heir, _with the cure for each disease_.\u2014_Day Book._\n\n The Author has brought together a mass of information in reference\n to the human structure, its growth and its treatment, which will\n render his work of great use to readers _of all classes and\n conditions_.\u2014_Philadelphia Daily Times._\n\nBound in heavy cloth, $3.00; library binding, $4.00. Agents wanted.\nAddress,\n\n  FOWLER & WELLS CO., 775 Broadway, N. Y.\n\n\nBrain and Mind,\n\nOR, MENTAL SCIENCE CONSIDERED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PRINCIPLES OF\nPHRENOLOGY AND IN RELATION TO MODERN PHILOSOPHY.\n\nBy H. S. Drayton, A.M., M.D., and James McNeill, A.B. Illustrated with\nover One Hundred Portraits and Diagrams. $1.50.\n\n\nThe authors state in their preface: \u201cIn preparing this volume it has\nbeen the aim to meet an existing want, viz; that of a treatise which\nnot only gives the reader a complete view of the system of mental\nscience known as Phrenology, but also exhibits its relation to Anatomy\nand Physiology, as those sciences are represented today by standard\nauthority.\u201d [Illustration: Phrenological Head]\n\nThe following, from the Table of Contents, shows the scope and\ncharacter of the work:\n\n  GENERAL PRINCIPLES.\n  THE TEMPERAMENTS.\n  STRUCTURE OF THE BRAIN AND SKULL.\n  CLASSIFICATION OF THE FACULTIES.\n  THE SELFISH ORGANS.\n  THE INTELLECT.\n  THE SEMI-INTELLECTUAL FACULTIES.\n  THE ORGANS OF THE SOCIAL FUNCTIONS.\n  THE SELFISH SENTIMENTS.\n  THE MORAL AND RELIGIOUS SENTIMENTS.\n  HOW TO EXAMINE HEADS.\n  HOW CHARACTER IS MANIFESTED.\n  THE ACTION OF THE FACULTIES.\n  THE RELATION OF PHRENOLOGY TO METAPHYSICS AND EDUCATION.\n  VALUE OF PHRENOLOGY AS AN ART.\n  PHRENOLOGY AND PHYSIOLOGY.\n  OBJECTIONS AND CONFIRMATIONS BY THE PHYSIOLOGISTS.\n  PHRENOLOGY IN GENERAL LITERATURE.\n\n\nNotices of the Press.\n\nPhrenology is no longer a thing laughed at. The scientific researches\nof the last twenty years have demonstrated the fearful and wonderful\ncomplication of matter, not only with mind, but with what we call moral\nqualities. Thereby, we believe, the divine origin of \u201cour frame\u201d has\nbeen newly illustrated, and the Scriptural psychology confirmed: and\nin the Phrenological Chart we are disposed to find a species of \u201curim\nand thummim,\u201d revealing, if not the Creator\u2019s will concerning us, at\nleast His revelation of essential character. One thing is certain,\nthat the discoveries of physical science must ere long force all men\nto the single alternative of Calvinism or Atheism. When they see that\nGod has written himself sovereign, absolute, and predestinating, on\nthe records of His creation, they will be ready to find His writing\nas clearly in the Word; and the analogical argument, meeting the\ndifficulties and the objections on the side of Faith by those admitted\nas existing on the side of Sight, will avail as well in one case as\nin the other. We will only add, the above work is, without doubt, the\nbest popular presentation of the science which has yet been made. It\nconfines itself strictly to facts, and is not written in the interest\nof any pet \u201ctheory.\u201d It is made very interesting by its copious\nillustrations, pictorial and narrative, and the whole is brought down\nto the latest information on this curious and suggestive department of\nknowledge.\u2014_Christian Intelligencer._\n\nAs far as a comprehensive view of the teachings of Combe can be\nembodied into a system that the popular mind can understand, this book\nis as satisfactory an exposition of its kind as has yet been published.\nThe definitions are clear, exhaustive, and spirited.\u2014_Philadelphia\nEnquirer._\n\n\nIn style and treatment it is adapted to the general reader, abounds\nwith valuable instruction expressed in clear, practical terms, and the\nwork constitutes by far the best Text-book on Phrenology published, and\nis adapted to both private and class study.\n\nThe illustrations of the Special Organs and Faculties are for the most\npart from portraits of men and women whose characters are known, and\ngreat pains have been taken to exemplify with accuracy the significance\nof the text in each case. For the student of human nature and character\nthe work is of the highest value.\n\nIt is printed on fine paper, and substantially bound in extra cloth, by\nmail, postpaid, on receipt of price, $1.50. Address\n\nFOWLER & WELLS CO., Publishers, 775 Broadway, New York.\n\n\nPHYSICAL CULTURE.\n\n\n For Home and School. Scientific and Practical. By D. L. Dowd,\n Professor of Physical Culture. 322 12mo. pages. 300 Illustrations.\n Fine Binding, Price $1.50.\n\n\nCONTENTS.\n\n Physical Culture, Scientific and Practical, for the Home and School.\n Pure Air and Foul Air.\n\nQuestions Constantly Being Asked:\n\n No. 1. Does massage treatment strengthen muscular tissue?\n\n No. 2. Are boat-racing and horseback-riding good exercises?\n\n No. 3. Are athletic sports conducive to health?\n\n No. 4. Why do you object to developing with heavy weights?\n\n No. 5. How long a time will it take to reach the limit of development?\n\n No. 6. Is there a limit to muscular development, and is it possible to\n gain an abnormal development?\n\n No. 7. What is meant by being muscle bound?\n\n No. 8. Why are some small men stronger than others of nearly double\n their size?\n\n No. 9. Why is a person taller with less weight in the morning than in\n the evening?\n\n No. 10. How should a person breathe while racing or walking up-stairs\n or up-hill?\n\n No. 11. Is there any advantage gained by weighting the shoes of\n sprinters and horses?\n\n No. 12. What kind of food is best for us to eat?\n\n No. 13. What form of bathing is best?\n\n No. 14. How can I best reduce my weight, or how increase it?\n\n No. 15. Can you determine the size of one\u2019s lungs by blowing in a\n spirometer?\n\n Personal Experience of the Author in Physical Training.\n\n Physical Culture for the Voice. Practice of Deep Breathing.\n\n Facial and Neck Development. A few Hints for the Complexion.\n\n The Graceful and Ungraceful Figure, and Improvement of Deformities,\n such as Bow-Leg, Knock-Knee, Wry-Neck, Round Shoulders, Lateral\n Curvature of the Spine, etc.\n\n A few Brief Rules. The Normal Man. Specific Exercises for the\n Development of Every Set of Muscles of the Body, Arms and Legs, also\n Exercises for Deepening and Broadening the Chest and Strengthening the\n Lungs.\n\n These 34 Specific Exercises are each illustrated by a full length\n figure (taken from life) showing the set of muscles in contraction,\n Which can be developed by each of them. Dumb Bell Exercises.\n\n Ten Appendices showing the relative gain of pupils from 9 years of age\n to 40.\n\n All who value Health, Strength and Happiness should procure and read\n this work; it will be found by far the best work ever written on this\n important subject. Sent by mail, postpaid, on receipt of price. $1.50.\n\n\nAddress, Fowler & Wells Co., Publishers, 775 Broadway, New York.\n\n\n[Illustration: PORTRAITS FROM LIFE, IN \u201cHEADS AND FACES.\u201d]\n\n\nHUMAN-NATURE.\n\n\nIf you want something to read that will interest you more thoroughly\nthan any book you have ever read, send for a copy of HEADS AND FACES,\na new Manual of Character Reading for the people. It will show you\nhow to read people as you would a book, and see if they are inclined\nto be good, upright, honest, true, kind, charitable, loving, joyous,\nhappy and trustworthy people, such as you would like to know; or are\nthey by nature untrustworthy, treacherous and cruel, uncharitable and\nhard-hearted, fault-finding, jealous, domineering people whom you would\nnot want to have intimate with yourselves or your families.\n\nA knowledge of Human-Nature will enable you to judge of all this at\nsight, and to choose for yourselves and children such companions as\nwill tend to make you and them better, purer, more noble and ambitious\nto do and to be right, and would save many disappointments in social\nand business relations. It will aid in choosing and governing servants,\ntraining children, and deciding whom to trust in all the affairs of\nlife. 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Variations\nin hyphenation and all other spelling and punctuation remains unchanged.\n\nItalics are represented thus _italic_ and bold thus =bold=.\n\nOn page 5\n\u201cJesus Christ more than any other teacher or reformer reorganized\u201d\nreorganized has been replaced with recognized.","title":"Food and Morals: 6th Edition","tradition":"scripture-revelation","translated_text":null,"word_count":19488}