| Apple Dumpling | 3 | 0 |
| Bread Corn baked, and Carrots boiled | 3 | 15 |
| Potatoes and Turnips boiled, Butter and Cheese | 3 | 30 |
| Tripe and Pigs' Feet | 1 | 0 |
| Venison | 1 | 35 |
| Oysters undressed, and Eggs raw | 2 | 3 |
| Turkey and Goose | 2 | 30 |
| Eggs soft-boiled. Beef and Mutton roasted or boiled | 3 | 0 |
| Boiled Pork, stewed Oysters, Eggs hard-boiled or fried | 3 | 30 |
| Domestic Fowls | 4 | 0 |
| Wild Fowls, Pork salted and boiled, Suet | 4 | 30 |
| Veal Roasted, Pork and Salted Beef | 5 | 30 |
Dr Adam Smith, in his "Wealth of Nations," says: "It may, indeed, be doubted whether butcher's meat is any where a necessary of life. Grain, and other vegetables, with the help of milk, cheese, and butter, or oil (where butter is not to be had), it is known from experience can, without any butchers meat, afford the most plentiful, the most wholesome, the most nourishing, and the most invigorating diet."[1]
Our second question is, I think, now sufficiently answered. Vegetable food does furnish to man all the elements needful for the renewal of his body.
On Ill-imagined Experiments.— Majendie fed dogs upon sugar and distilled water, and they died in about a month. Other dogs fed by him, some upon olive oil and water, some on gum, some on butter, died in four or five weeks. Tiedemann and Ginelin fed geese, one with sugar and water, another with gum and water, a third with starch and water. All gradually lost weight, and died in three weeks or a month. None of the food contained nitrogen: death is attributed to the lack of this substance.
But the whole process is a fallacy, as other experiments show. Majendie fed a dog on white bread and water, and though the gluten of white bread is highly nitrogenised, the animal lived no more than fifty days. Tiedemann and Gmelin fed a goose on pure albumen—boiled white of egg cut up—and it died on the forty-sixth day. Dogs fed on cheese alone, or on hard eggs, grow feeble, and loose their hair. Animals fed exclusively on gelatine (jelly)—the most highly nitrogenized principle in the food of the carnivora—die with all the symptoms of starvation.
These facts suffice to prove that the death of the dogs and geese first named ought to be ascribed to the same head as the latter cases, i.e., not specially to the deficiency of nitrogen, but to the artificial and concentrated form of the aliment. The food given was totally unnatural, and violated physiological laws.
- ↑ Vol. III., p. 337.
