The philosophy of eating. By Albert J. Bellows, M.D.

NEW PLAN OF PRESERVING FRUITS.

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as being unnatural and unwholesome articles, either as
necessaries or luxuries of life, either imparting, as they
all do, injurious elements, or chemically changing or
withdrawing the nutritive elements, or at least changing
their relative proportions, so as to be unfit for digestion.
And with the arrangement described in the next chapter, which is applicable to ships as well as houses, and
can be secured from the influence of all climates, the
disease of scurvy need never be known, or the many
other diseases induced by salt, vinegar, pyroligneous
acid, carbonaceous food, or alcohol.
Plan for Preserving Fruits anld Vegetables.
Professor Nyce, of Cleveland, Ohio, has perfected
and patented a plan for preserving fruits, vegetables,
&c., which seems to me of great interest and importance, not only as a means of applying practically the
principles of science to the useful purposes of life by
adding to our luxuries, but, as I have endeavored elsewhere to show, of adding to the supply of elements
actually necessary for the preservation of health, and
of avoiding the injurious articles now used in preserving
food. And as this plan strongly favors my "Philosophy of Eating," and my humble efforts to induce men
to return to the primitive use of natural food as the
means of enjoying, to the highest degree of which they
are capable, the pleasures of health and "the pleasures
of the table," I shall transcribe what is known, and
already to some extent published, on this subject. The