Polynesian. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu], Hawaii) 1844-1864, 1859-02-12
No. Al.

fancy, from Its supposed resemblance to some dis
eases of the hog, and then the inference was easy,
that eating the hog (serofa) produced the hog dis
ease (serofula). 1t is well known, however that
our American Indians and the Hindoos, who never
use pork, are liable to this disease and that in
Europe 1t prevails chiefly among the ilLfed poor,
who hardly taste meat of any kind
On the other hand the Cinnamon and our own
pioneers, who hardly eat any other flesh, are re-
markably healthy and exempt from scrofula-a dis
ease we have much more reason to suspect as ori-
glnating long ago from the hereditary taint of an
unmentlonable disease favored by irregular living
and poor diet.
In the South. from their sleek appearance and
exemption from scrofua you can at once distinguish
the bacOn-ied negro.
These examples may suffice on that head.
Fat pork is not IN any sense earbonic acid, but
hydro-carbon, a combination of hydrogen and car
bUn 1t becomes carbonic acid and water bv COM
blning with oxygen in the act of being burned or
dIgested, which is much the same thing-ciyino off
during those processes large amounts Of heat and
light
1t is true the fat of fat pork does not make blood
or red flesh, though the lean which is always eat
en- also, does 1t is your article says truly, ma
terial for breath. Well, that is Il good deal Its
supposed that if the writer's breath had stonned
hve minutes before he took his pen, we should
never have seen his article on fat pork.
But it does more. All the fat that poes into tho
stomach, and thence into the blood, does not un-
dergo slow burning in the lungs by the process of
burning, but is deposited in the body as human fat
Now u certain amount Of fat is so necessary for
the proper play of all the parts, muscles included
that without 1t, the body, like an ungreased en-
gine, wears itself out by its own friction In com
sumption, the waste OF Int Is alarming and most
dangerous symptom. and the far-famed c0dlIver oil
acts perhaps chiefly by supplying the blood with
fat.
am satisfied by experience that fat pork. when
the stomach will receive it, does lust as well
Moreover, few OF those delicate persons that have
50 great aversion to pork or other fat ever live
to see forty years. They die young Of consumption
Butter, sugar, starch, vegetable oils act to some
extent as animal fat, and in tropical climates are
used as substitutes.
But 60 10 the Arctic regions and see the refined
Dr. Kane and bis men deV0ur raw waIrus blubber
with gusto, as would take dish of ice cream.
and you will conclude that ''fat pork" particular
ly In our Arctic winter, Is not bad an institu-
ton.
We could not live on fat pork a2one-nor on su-
gar or starch-though we could on bread Bread.
the staff Of Hfe, contains the materials both for
breathing and making blood and red flesh (nusclel
in a supereminent degree, greater even than lean
beef or any other single article of food and this
or some substitute, such as beans, peas, potatoes.
ETC., Is always eaten with fat pork so that there is
SuAuC4ChN supply VI OlOOU ueSn-m3klug mate
rial However, excess is bad, and the fat pork
must not constitute the bulk of d meal
Chemical analysis is poor substitute for the
observation of facts in the living body nor can we
even base very much on experiments made on Mr..
Martin, the man with the hole in his stomach, by
which food can be introduced and digestion observ-
ed for that is not natures way of getting it there
and stomach with such an unnatural opening is
much like leaky dinner-pot with hole in the
bottom stuffed with a rag. Extended experience
alone settle such question
The Greeks and Romans esteemed pork as q luz
ury, and a most wholesome diet; their athletes and
gladators (prize-fghters) were fed on pork. Our
own Saxon (Ieutunic ScandinaYian) ancestors es-
teemed it so highly that they, in their heav-
en-, provided a great hog with golden bristles call
ed GullibOrstl, of whose bacon the heroes of Wal
halla dined every day, when at night the picked
bones again united and became covered with fresh
supply of fat pork. In this estimate OF the hog,
the mass of mankind, not Of the Shemitic race
(Jews, Turks, Arabs, etc. who follow Moses law,
that had a spiritual and representative meaning,
have in all ages agreed, and will agree as long as
man has canine teeth and lives by dralUing has
breath. Whenever the Scientific American or Prof
Liebig will discover new process of living with
out breathing, we may be guided by their opinion;
till then, Opine, ''goOd cOrR-fed pork (and no
other is goOd), will rule the roast of which them
selves will not be slow to partake.
My remarks of course only applicable to men,
women and children with comparatively healthy
stomaehs, who have sufficient exercise, with pure
air and pure water.