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

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TO THE READER.

they furnish no honey and die. All this everybody knows; but children are expected to live,
and be perfectly developed, both mentally and
physically, without care or consideration.
And so perfectly ignorant are people generally of the laws of nature, that they give their
pigs the food which their children need to develop muscle and brain, and give their children what their pigs need to develop fat. For
example, the farmer separates from milk the
muscle-making and brain-feeding nitrates and
phosphates, and gives them to his pigs in the
form of buttermilk, while the fattening carbonates he gives to his children in butter. He sifts
out the bran and outer crust from the wheat,
which contains the nitrates and phosphates, and
gives them also to his pigs and cattle, while the
fine flour, containing little else than heating carbonates, he gives to his children. Cheese, which
contains the concentrated nutriment of milk, is
seldom seen on our tables, while butter, which
contains not a particle of food for brain or muscle, is on every table at all times of day.
To supply this deficiency in practical science,
and to correct these erroneous and dangerous
habits of society, is the object of this treatise.
A. J. B.
90 SPRINGFIELD ST., BOSTON, MASS.