Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1860-11-02

VEMBER 2, 1860.
Eating to Livs-fAviag 10 Hat.
| There are only two bad things in d
world" said Hannah More, sin and bile
but these evils are the occasion of all othss
nay, according to the theory Of cei tain savaj
the first was the result Of the second. "C1
IA soupe Qxi tait A soldat !" that ID to say
man very much depends upon what you &
him with. Certain French philosophers
persuaded that, instead Of aoldat we sho,
use another word, saint. It is the dinI
that makes . man good or bad. Thus far
2 rude, but unmistakable way, we place
| fore our readers the strongest deduction VIII
can be made Of the effects of cookery: bill
produced by bad cookery and indigcstil
meats; virtue is the result of good nourii
ing, and light dinners. Rather materials
this, but you hear the talk every day; q
juries and medical witnesses are becomi
convinced that crime depends as much up(
or arises from diseased state Of the body
it does from diseased mind in fact, you q
not able to have one healthy unless the oth(
is. The Horation Hens sand IN c0rpo1
sano," is very wise example in the Lati>
Grammar; you must have sound body 3
have a perfectly sound mind. EVERY ma
who has reached the middle of life must havl
had occasion to observe how much his com.
fort and powers Of exertion depend upon the
state Of his stomach - SO says DR.. Mayo
Now what are we to do to keep this stomach
in order, this animal instinct which governs
uss Some philosophers despise the stom.
ach, but we can not get on without It; our
limbs may fall off one by one, our taste do
cay, our senses leave us, our mind be wreck
ed; but King Stomach lives, and will live,
supreme.
Presuming man has four meals q day
regularly, he eats one thousand four hundred
much to say that the majority Of us could
subsist very well with half that amount
During sixty-five years he will have consum.
ed a flock of 800 sheep, and those for dinner
alone. He may throw in another fifty for
luncheons and suppers. Presuming he adds
to his mutton reasonable allowance of pota-
toes and bread, and a pint of LIQUID, not
counting tea, above thirty tons ofliquids and
solids will have passed through his stomach,
and have been permeatcd by gastric juices.
NJ. Soyer rose almost to sublimity when he
contemplated the enormous amount, and in
his " Modern Housewife draws the picture
of an cpicure in his tenth year, contemplating
the future sustenance Of his life and the lux
uries which he will hereafter dcvour. The
serious picture Of Adam in prophetic vision
contemplating all the wars, miseries, murders,
thefts, plaques, troubles of the future man,
and all the thieves, robbers, captains, SOL
from his loins, is the only parallel picture
which we know of. Fancy" wrote Soyer,
"a youth in his tenth year, on the top Of
Primrose Hill, surrounded by tho recherche
provision claimed by the rank and wealth of
gourmaSd. He would be surrounded and
gazed at by the following animals, which would
eventually be his victims: 30 oxen, 200
sheep, 100 calves, 200 lambs, 90 pigs, 1900
fowls, 800 turkeys, $50 geese, 400 ducklings,
263 pigeons, 400 patridges, pheasants, and
grouse, 450 plovers, ruffs, and reeves, 800
Quails, 500 harcs and rabbits, 40 deer, 100
guinea-fowl, and $50 wild fowl. In the way
Of fish, 100 turbot, 14O salmon, 12O cod, 26O
trout, 400 mackerel, 800 soles and founders
200 eels, $50 haddocks, 400 red mullet, 400
hcrrings, 1000 smelt, lOO, 900 white-bait, 3d.
900 oysters, 800 Holsters or crabs, 100000
shrimps, sardines, and anchovies." We will
not follow NJ. Soyer in his description; he
gives his gourmand 5,475 ib weight Of all
kinds of vegetables, not including fruit, and
2l 900 eggs, and Al tons of bread, with 40
hogshcads Of wine; and 2,736 gallons Of wa
ter, with enormous quantities of spirits and
and other liquors, 60 to moisten these repasts
If we all thought seriously Of this matter, per-
haps over eating would be less frequent, and
the result would he positively beneficial to us
all rich men notoriously dig their graves
with their teeth. "If rich man wishes to
live in health, he must live like poor man."
Let us now see how food is to be digested
St. Martin, who had an opening (from gun
shot wound) in his stomach, afforded the
physicians and surgeons an admirable oppor-
tunity Of studying the process Of digestion.
A thermometer introduced into his stomach
rose to lO1e Fahrenheit; that heat, there
fore, is that necessary for digestion. A carrot
was consumed in five hours roast beef un-
derdone, in one hour and half; venison in
one hour; mutton in one hour and quarter.
Melted butter would not digest at oil, but
foated about in the stomach. Lobster seem.
ed to be comparatively easy Of digestion; new
bread very difficult indeed and stale bread
not nearly so easy as many presume. Next
to venison, grouse and game, if kept suflici-
emily long, yielded most easily to the effects
Of the gastric juice; and again, broiled meat
was more easily digcsted than roasted, roast
ed than baked, baked than fried.
The gastric juice is poured into the stomach
in very large quantity, sixteen pints during
the twenty-four hours; Of bile three pints,
saliva half pint, intestinal Juice half pint !;
in all ahcr.. twenty three pints, or about one
sixth the weight Of an ordinary man. All
this work is carried forward in each individ-
ual simply to enable him to digest his ordi-
nary food. But any disturbance in his usual
living, such as taking an inordnatc mass to
eat, or devouring that which is essentially in
digcstible, will Of course utterly overflow the
provisions of nature. 1t is also necessary not
to exhaust the stomach by too much eating,
or by to continued course Of feeding. Hence
an occasional fast is one Of the most whole
some practices, and the rule of the Roman
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