Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1847-07-24

'dhHg Tue u1Iec iHgTeuiente, therefore, 10.
eether, the whole meal is one-hslf more valua.
BILE for fulfilling all the purposes Of nutrition
than the fine four-and especially is il 60 in re.
gard to the feedin. Of the young, the pregnant,
aud those who undergo much bodily fatigue.
II will not be denied that il 10 for a wise pur.
pose that the Deity has so intimately associated,
in the grain. the several substances which are
necessary for the complete nutrition Of animal
bodies. The above considerations show how
unwisc we are in attempting to undo this n.iu.
raj cOlocation Of materials. To please the eye
and the pslste, we sift out lees generally nu.
tritive food,-and. to make up for what we have
removed. experience teaches US TO have recourse
10 animal iood ofvsrious descriptions.
1t is interesting To remark, even in apparent.
ly trivial things, how oil nature is full Of com.
pepsa,ing processes. We give our servants
household bread, while We live m the finest OF
the wheat ourselves. The mistress eats that
which pleases The eye more, the lid what sus.
tains and nourishes the body better.
But the whole meal is more wholesome. Us
well as more nu,ritive. II ia on account of i,s
superior wholesomeness that those who are ex-
perencet in medicine usually recommend It to
our attention. Experience in the laws OF di.
gestion brings Us back TO the simple admix
found in the natural seed II 10 not an acciden.
tai thing that the proportions in which the in.
gradients of a truly sustaining food take their
places in the seeds on which We live, should be
best fitted at once to promote the health Of the
sedcntsry scholar. and TO reinvigoratc the
strength Of the active man when exhsus by
bodily labor. ............ .....
Some may cay that the preceding obseVva.
tons are merely theoretical; and may demand
the support Of sctusl trial, before they will con.
cede that The selection Of the most nourishing
and wholesome diet 10 hereafter to be regulated
by the results Of chemical snslysis The de.
mand 10 reasonable in itself. and the socalled
deductions os theory are entitled only to the
rank Of probable conjcctures, tilIthey have been
| tested by exact end repeated trials
But such in THE case have been made; and
our theoretical considerations come in only 10
confirm the results Of previous experiments-tc
explain why these results should have been
obtained, and to extend and enforce the practi.
| cal lessons which the results themselves appear
| 10 inculcaie.
Thus from the experiments Of Majendie and
others, it was known that animals which in q
few weeks died it fed only upon fine -four, lived
| long upon whole meal bread. The reason sp
pears from our snaly,i teal Investigations The
whole meal contains in large quantity the thres
forms Of matter by which The severa: psrts oftht
body are sustained, or successfully renewed =
We may feed man loag upon bread and wste'
only, but unless wo wish TO kill him also. WI
mus, have the apparent cruelty to restrict hin
to the coarser kinds Of breads. The Chart,
which supplies him with fine white loaves in
stead, would in effect kill him by 4 lingering
starvation.
Again. the pork-grower, who buys bran IRON
the miller. wonders At the remarkable feeding
aud fs,tening effect which thus apparently woodl
and useless material has upon his animals
The surprise ceases. however, and the practic
10 encouraged, and extended to other creatures
when the researches Of the laboratory explain
to him wha. the food itself contains. and whs
his growing animal requires. 'H'' t.'''7 'ta
Economy % we'll - comfort follow from a
exset scqusin'snes with the wants Of our bodie
| In their several conditions. and With the comp'
siticn Ct the various articles Of diet which 81
lst our somnsEd. In The prsssn, condition