The North-Carolinian. [volume] (Fayetteville [N.C.]) 1839-1861, 1858-07-31
NORTH CAROLINIAN,
One MANS Meat j. another 1ssy Po1e..
FdTETTETILLE. N. G..

The substance which nourishes one animal af-
lords no nonrishment for another, nor will
AIRY table Of "neutritive elu valents" however
precise, convince Us that substance ought to
! nour'sh ~ virtue OF its composition. when .sex-
perience tells US that it does not nourish, in
virtue Of some defective relation between It and
the orgunjsm. That one maus meat is another
mans sRosan, is proverb Of strict verasfty.
There. are persons. eFen in Europe, TO whom 4
mutton chop wcnld poison The celesratei
lpnraf fsllsied .examp, s q eaislsl being
IA Sasce % Il @8 Iliess rep"g-
treaties Of his parents nor the meRacEU
tutors could induce him to overcome it H.
reaching the age of thirty, OF a regimen of veg
etable food, he was Over-persuaded, and tried
the affect of meat soups, which led to his eating
both mutton and beef; but the change was fatal
plethora and sleepness interviewed, and he died
of celehral inflammation.
In lS43 French soldier obliged to quit
the service because he could not overcome his
violent repugnance and disgust towards animal
food. DR.. Prout, whose testimony will be
more convincing to English readers, knew n
person on whom mutton acted as poison; "he
could not eat mutton in any form. The pecu-
larity supposed to be owing to caprice
but the mutto repeatedly disguised AMI
given him unknown; but uniformly with the
same result of producing violent vomiting and
darrh9a. And from the severity of the effects,
which were in fact those Of viru!ent poison,
there can be little doubt that if the use of
mutton had bed persisted in, it would have
soou destroyed the life of the individual Dr..
Pereira, who quotes this passage, adds: II
know of gentleman who has repeatedly had
an attack of indigestion after the use of roast
mutton. Some persons, it is known cannot
take coffee without vomiting; others are thrown
into a general inflammation if they eat cherries
or goosberries. Hahn relates himself that
en- or eight strawberries would produce couvul-
SOns in him.
Tissot says he cond never swall"w sugar
without vomiting. May persons are unable
to eat eggs; and cakes or puddings, having
eggs in their composition, produce serious dis
turbarccs in such persons; if they ure induced
to eat them under false assurances of no eggs
having been employed, they are soon nndeceived
by the unmstak cable effects UnCer less strI-
king forms, this different human beings, is Ia
lniar to us all our friends freely !ndul-
ging with benefit instead of harm, i'll oil kinds
of food which experience too painfully assures
US, we can eat with only certain injury. 10
itbie-fact the attention Of parents and Snnrd'~"~
should seriously be given, that by 1t they may
learn to avoid the petite tyranny and folly OF
insisting children eating food for which they
have manifest repugnan,e.
1t is too common to treat child's repugnance
as mere caprice to condemn it "stuf and
noncence," when he refuses TO eat fat or eggs,
certain Vegetables and Wholesome pudding"
Now even caprice in such matters should not
be altogether sighted especially when it takes
the form of refusal; because this caprice Is
probably nothing less than the expression OF
particular and temporary state of his organism
which we should do wrong to disregard. And
whenever refusal is constant, it indicates
positive unfitnes for the food. Only gross
ignorance of physioIogy-an ignorance unhap-
PLY too widely spread-can argue that because
a certain article is wholesome to many. it must
cor;Iv no ubOlo to all Gael
ual organism is specifically different from any
other,