Physiology, animal and mental : applied to the preservation and restoration of health of body, and power of mind / by O.S. Fowler.

  • Fowler, O. S. (Orson Squire), 1809-1887.
Date:
1849
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Physiology, animal and mental : applied to the preservation and restoration of health of body, and power of mind / by O.S. Fowler. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

    97/324
    nino or ten o'clock, I frequently omit—I take often the same as for breakfast and supper; or sometimes eat peas, beans, eggs broken into water and boiled but little, or butter-milk or sour milk sweetened, or the apple or cherry of pot-pies and dumplings eaten with bread, or mealy potatoes, or rice with molasses, milk, or fruit, or custard and bread, or bread and apples, etc., etc. Greens, squashes, melons, onions, beets, turnips, pumpkins, especially pumpkin pies, I relish without meat; but eschew cucumbers, raddishes, green corn, and all fresh-cooked flour victuals, such as short-cakes, the crust of dumplings and pot-pies, etc. I once loved cucumbers and green corn, but found they injured me, and discontinued them years ago, and have now lost all relish for them. Similar abstinence will conquer any and all vitiated cravings. Rad- dishes may do well enough when boiled, and cucumbers and corn when ripe, or fried, yet others are quite welcome to the pains consequent on eating them while crude and uncooked. My winter and spring diet consists mainly of bread and apples, tiie latter generally uncooked, but sometimes stewed or baked. Sweet apples are preferable, because they con- tain much more substance than sour. Corn cracked and hulled, commonly called homminy, is another favorite dish, and so are Indian and oat-meal gruels, and also oat-meal, In- dian, rye and wheat mush, the flour for the last two unbolted. I eat honey freely in winter. Nor are split-peas or white beans made into soup for dinner one day, and the balance baked the next, such poor fare as to be allowed to fall into disuse. But of these hereafter. Give me my farinaceous diet for gustatory pleasure merely, as well as health, and you may have the meat. Nor would I give my diet in exchange for that of kings and queens—reference being had to its de- liciousness merely. If objection be raised to this diet on the score of expense, it is claimed that it is certainly cheaper than flesh. All kinds of grain are cheap compared with meat, and any one can raise fruit enough for family consumption, on a small piece of ground, or buy it with far less money than the same amount of nourishment costs in the form of meat. Apples and flour