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...that article which comes to us fourteen times a week, and each time generally weaker, and more ethereal than the last. In short, Memorial Hall soup seems to be improving. Since Sunday we have been favored with a really sensible kind of liquid, one plate of which contains more nutriment than five gallons of the thin and starving consomme and the ill-famed Scotch broth. Rumor has it that a new cook has been imported. Let us be thankful that he has not yet learned the methods of Memorial. Who knows but that at last an heroic soul has appeared...
...Farnham announced in his last lecture that a man who drinks two gallons of beer every day and a pint of whiskey needs no other nutriment...
...This latter liquid contains 26 per cent. of tannic acid and a very small amount of nitrogen. It is an excitant of respiration, induces perspiration, and cools the body. In reference to nutrition, we may say that tea increases waste, since it promotes the transformation of food without supplying nutriment. The best time to drink tea is after a hearty meal. Coffee in its action is similar to tea, and is best drunk at breakfast, as the system is then best fitted to bear it. Constipation is the cause of many ills for which other reasons are assigned...
...Brain nutriment demanding...
...appetite. In regard to quality, the refining of flour, etc., often renders it more indigestible. One should not take anything distasteful to him. There should be a variety in diet, in order to obtain all the principal elements of subsistence which are not found in any one form of nutriment. Benefit results from what is digested, not from what is eaten merely. A man's natural appetite and sense of hunger should determine his times of eating, and meals should be from four to five hours apart. In everything relating to food and diet, personal tastes must be duly regarded...