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One Man,s Meat Is anothepr,. MANS Poison.

nor will any table Of "neutritive equiva-
lents" however precise, convince us that 4
substance ought to nourish in virtue Of its
composition, when experience tells us that
it does not nonrish, in virtue Of some defec.
tive relation between it and the organism
That one mans meat is another mans poi
SON is provcrb Of strict verasity. There
are persons, even in Europe, TO whom a
mutton chop would poison. The celcbra
ted case OF Able dc Filcdicu is rare, bu:
not unparalleled example, Of animal food be
ing poisonous; from his earliest years his
rcpugnance to it was so decided that nei,h-
cr the entrcalies Of his parents nor the men,
ances Of his tutors could induce him 10
overcome it. After reaching the age of
thirty, on regiment of vegetable 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 "a.
tal plethora and sleepiness interveneG, and
he died Of celebrial inflammation.
In le43 French soldier was obliged to
quit the service because he could not over
come his violent repuguance and disgust
towards animal food DR.. Prout, whose
testimony will be more convincing to Eng
lish readers, knew person on whom nut.
ton acted a. poison "he could not eat
mutton in any form. The pecuiarity was
supposed to he owing to caprice but the
mutton was repeatedly disguised and given
him unknown ; but uniformly with the
same result of producing violent vomiting
and diarrhoea. And from the severity Of
the effects. which were in fact those of
virutent poison. there can be little doubt
that if the use Of mutton had been persisted
in, it would have soon destroyed the life Of
the individual" DR.. Pereira, who quotes
this passage, adds: II know, of a gentle
man who has repeatedly had an attack Of
indigestion after the. use Of roast mutton:
Some persons, it is known cannot take cof
fee without vomiting; others are thrown
into general inflammation if they eat
cherries or gooseberries. Hahn relates
himself that seven or eight strawberries
would pro luce convul>iops in hin.
Tissot says he could never swallow sugar
without vomiting. Many persons are un-
able to eat eggs and cakes or pudding,
having eggs in their composition, produce
serious disturbances in such persons #
they are induced to ca. them under false
assurances Of no eggs having been employ
ed, :hey are soon undeceived by the unmis
takeable effects. Under less striking forms,
this different human beings, is familiar to
us all we see our friends freely induIging
with benefit instead of harm, in nll kinds of
food Which experience too painfully assures
us, we can eat with only certain injury.
To this fact the attention Of parents and
guardians should seriously be given, that BY
it they may learn to avoid the petite tSran-
1ny and folly DIMINISHING on CHILDREN eating
food for which they have manifest repug.
nance. :
1t is too common to treat chd's repng-
nance rs mere caprice, to condemn it as
'stuff and nonsense when he refuses to
eat fat or eggs, certnin vegetables, and
wholesome pudding Now even caprice
in such matters should not be altogether
Sighted especially whenit takes the form Of
a refusal; because this caprice is probably
nothing less than the expression ola partic.
ular and temporary state of his organism
which we should do wrong to disregard
And whenever refusal is constant, it indi:"
Gates positive uufitness for tfs food. On
ly a gross ignorance Of physiolegy-an ig-
norance unhappiIy too widely spread-can
argue that because asesytain. article is whole
some to many, i, mhstrecesserily BE- whole
some to many, it must necessarily be whole
some to all. Each individual Organism is
specifically different FROM any other. :
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happy with his preacher, because the "dry
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