Digestion : the passport to health / by Alfred Wright.

  • Wright, Alfred.
Date:
[1883?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Digestion : the passport to health / by Alfred Wright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    immediate tendency to a disorganisation of the system which, aggravated by want of exercise, hastens an inevitable end. Butter, if we are to beHeve what we hear, is even more baneful and deleterious. It encourages bile, disorders the stomach, and when not composed of rank refuse, petroleum, or oleomargarine, may have inherited poisonous properties through the accidental chewing of deadly herbs by the mild but indiscrimi- nating cow. Perish the thought that marmalade has any longer a right to be considered an excellent substitute for butter at breakfast, when reams of statistics are ready at hand to show that for the most part it is but an unsavoury compound of neglected peel swept up from the floor of the garnished playhouse. Obedient to the temper of the times expressed with so much religious fervour and encouraged by the dis- tribution of blue ribands and pledges, recruits fall into the ranks of the teetotal army. John Barleycorn has to sing small. He may no longer in sentiment or stanza express his desire for a drop of good beer; for malt liquor, even if it be not