The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1861-02-21
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evils are the occasion of all others nav, accord
ing to the theory of certain savans, the first was
the result Of the second. \ man very much de-
ponds upon what you feed him with. Certain
French philosophers are persuaded that, instead
of sOLdaf we should use another word, saint. 1t
is the dinner that makes a man good or bad.
Thus far in a rude, but unmistakable way, we
place before our readers the strongest deduction
which can be made Of the effects Of cookery bile
is produced by bad cookery and indigestible
meats virtue Is the result Of good. nOurishing.
and light dinners. Rather materialistic this, but
you hear the talk every day and iuries and
medical witnesses are becoming convinced that
crime depends rs much upon or arises from a
diseased state of the body as it does from a dis
eased mind in fact, you are not able 70 have one
healthy unless the other Is. You must have Il
sound body To have q perfectly sound mind.
Every man who has reached the middle Of life
must have had occasion To observe how much his
comfort and powers OF exertiOn depend upon the
state of his stomach - 50 says DIR. Mavu. Now
what are we to DO to keep tins stomach in order,
this animal instinct which governs US? Some
philosophers despise the stomach, but we cannot
get on without it; our limbs may fall off one by
one, our taste decay, our senses leave US, our
mind be wrecked but King stomach lives. and
will live, supreme.
Presuming a man has his four meals a day
regularly, he eats one thousand four hundred and
sixty meals IN one year 1t II not too much to-
gay that the majority Of us could subsist very
we'll VII u lUll HlDu III SlAlN-lNt
years ne will have consumed Il flock Of $50 sheep,
and those for dinner alone. He may throw in
another fifty for luncheDns and suppers. Pre-
Stunning he adds 10 his mutton 4 reasonable allow
nnce of POTATOES and bread, and u pint of liquid,
not counting tea, above thirty tons of liquids and
solids will have passed through his stomach. and
have been permeated by gastric juices. NJ. Soyer
rise almost To sublImIty when he contemplated
the enormous amount. and in his Modern
Housewife draws the picture Of an epicure in
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anee of his life and the luxuries which he will
hereafter deyour. The serious picture Of Adam
IN q prophetic vsiOn contemplating all the wars.
miseries, murders, theits. plaques, troubles of the
future man. and all the thieves, robbers, captains,
soldiers, and murderers, who would proceed from
his loins, is the only parallel picture which we
know OE. - Fancy, wrote VI. SOyer, "a youth
ia his tenth year. On the top OF Primrose Hill,
surrounded by the recherche provision claimed By
the rank and wealth Of 4 gOurmand- He wOuly
be surrounded and gazed ut by the fOllOwind
animals, which would eventually be his victims
80 oxen, 2nO sheep, 100 calves, 200 lambs, 80
pigs. l 200 fowls, 900 turkeys, $50 geese, 400
duekIings, DOB pigeons, 400 cartridges, pheas-
ants, and groGsc- $50 plOyers, ruffs, and reeves,
500 quails. 500 hares and rabbits, 40 deer, 10
guinea-fowl, and 800 wild fowl In the way Of
hsh, I'D turbot. 40 salmon, 100 cod, 26O trout,
400 mackerel. 500 snles and founders, 200 eels.
$50 haldocks. 100 red mullet. 400 herrings, 4 900
smelt, 100 600 whitehall, 10000 oysters, i 800
Holsters or crabs, 3O0. 900 shrimps. sardines, and
anehoyies.' We will not follow NJ. Soyer in his
description he gives his gOurmand 5.475 lbs.
weight Of all kinds of vegetables, not including
fruit, and 81 600 eggs, and A. tons Of bread. with
40 hOgsheads Of wine and :, 100 gallons of wa
ter. with enormous quantities Of spirits and other
liquors. 20 u nOisten these repIsts. If we all
thought seriously of this matter, perhaps over
eating would BIZ less frequent. and the result
would b. positively beneficial to all rich men
VIGOROUSLY dig their graves with their teeth.
O. II n rich man wishes 10 live i'm health ne must
live like II poor man
Let US now So. how food is to be digested. 81.
Martin, who had an opening from a gun-shot
wound in his stomach, afforded the physicians
and surgeons an admirable opportunity of study
inc the process of digestion. \ thermometer in
trOiuced into his stomach rUse to- lOl Fahren-
heit that heat, therefore, is that necessary for
digestion. y carrot was consumed in five hours:
roast beef, underdone, IN one houT and a half;
yenisOn In one hour mutton in one hour and 4
quarter. Melted butter would not digct ut all,
but hnnted about in the stomach. Lobster seem
ell 10 be comparatively easy of digestion new
bread very difficult indeed and stale bread not
nearly 80 easy n many presume. Next 20 veni-
son, grouse and game, If kept sufficiently long,
welded most easily to the effects of the gastric
Juice: and again, brJiled meat was more easily
digested than roasted, roasted than baked, and
baked than fried
The gastric juice - poured into the stomach in
q very large quantity, sixteen pints during the
twenry-four hours: of bile, three pints. saliva half
q pint. intestinal juice half 4 pint: in all about
twenry-three pints, OF about nnc-sixth the weight
of an ordinary man. All this work is carried
forward in each individual simply To enable him
to digest hi- ordinary food. But any disturbance
in his usual living. such Is taking an inOrdinatc |.
mass to eat, or deyOaring that which Is essentially
iudigeStible, will Of course utterly overthrow the /
provisions of nature. IL is also necessary not to
exhaust the stomach by too much eating. or by |.
too continued a course of feeding. Hence an Oc-
casiOual fast J. one Of the most wholesome prac-
tees, and the rule of the Roman church i TO b.
for it, wisdom rather than laughed ut for Is
it, superstition. But. Unfortunately. tine Sp-call- /
ed fast Is made by professors of that faith simply I
a. an excuse for eating n different kind Ut food. {
the actual quantity remaining the same. This I
should not be. y fast should be a fast. Baron I
who reached the age If ninety. and who
never employed a physician. used u - one dav
in n week without dinner, eating only 4 round Of
toast for his tea. OF many others who
reached a good old age by simple diet. the Italian :
COrnarp Is the most conspicuous example. lie, C.
was in early youth a gluttOn. and of an enOr-
nous size. found himself when forty attacked by
disease fatal to most, but not to him. for
by abstinence he cured himself. and 10y continued
abstinence lived TO u very great age. At Last ne
~ far governed his appetite that he could suhSist
simply upon an egg a day and the autobiography
he wrote. pictures in great force his i'm 4
nense delight at the freedom which his brain and
body felt ut being relieved from the encumbrance
Of too much flesh. Ii may be said (fOr instances a
IF exception wosld only prove the rule) that all
long livers have been very a~hstemiOus.
Whatever we eat OF drink. little OF much. !
should b. carefully prepared. God sends ,
says the prOverb. /. but the devil sends
and {! = old saw has great force. .. Cook +,
n.y.. says Ude, :. is highly conducive to the pre- =
ervatiOn Of health the stomach should be pro- '
1ected from n monotony of plain food. Diet
hould be varied. and the cooking of each joint =
houId be- scientifically attended 10. \ weII-cook- a
a piece of meat will be full of Its own juice OF
raw. 1t will contain albumen. It's most nour-
shing essence"
It il the knowledge and attention To little
hinrs-nnd clnkinc may aEnear a very little =