Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-06-28
Meat for the Million.
Food for the Coming Man---The Great
Scientific Discovery OF the Age.

Food for the Coming Man---The Great
Scientific Discovery OF the Age.
Scientific Paris has a new sensation,
writes Paris correspondent. The first
requisite of mankind is food, and if that
can be provided at all times insufficient
quantity and quality to sustain life,
without extraordinary labor and expo
sure to perils, it must be conceded that
all / have claimed is true. If, more
over, the food is of the best quality, and
exactly adapted to the different ages
and varied physical constitutions OF the
race, theu the greatest triumph of the
age has been achieved. And all of this
Prof. Guerette claims to be true Of his
discovery.
1t seems that the idea occurred to the
learned scientist twenty years ago, that
he might experiment with animal and
vegetable food so far as to discover the
primordial elements needed to sustain
and foster life. He argued that as man
is sustained by the flesh of animals and
vegetables, it might be possible to re-
solve these articles of diet into their ell
ements, discover the sources from
which they drew their life, and by judi
cious combination of their most nutri-
tious qualities and the throwing out of
that which was useless and harmful,
produce an artificial species of food
which would supply every need of the
race. He sought what Hexley would
call the protoplasm of life, and it is
claimed and admitted by number of
his learned countrymen that he has
found it. It has been, as I said, the
work of twenty years to perfect the dis
covery, but two thousand years would
not have been wasted had they been sue
cessfully applied to the same purpose.
With an increasing supply of food for
the race always at hand with slight ex-
! pease of labor, the miseries of the poor,
and the necessities of crime are largely
decreased. The slaughter of animals
and the animal destruction of the vege-
table world is done away. Science gives
its mama with a large hand, and the
one great need of the world is supplied
from an unfailingsOarc
The gentleman to whom this discov-
cry is due is well-known in the City OF
Lyons, where he holds the chair Of
Chemics in the University. He was
born at Auvergne in 1908, graduated in
medicine at the universities of Paris
and Naples, was appointed lecturer at
the former institution in 184l, and was
promoted to the Professorship of Chem
istry in the University of Lyons in
1885, Since that time he has made the
latter city his abode, visiting Paris only
at rare intervals. He was pointed out
to me one day on the Rue DIES Italiens,
and I was told to take special notice OF
him, which was the easier done, as he
walked with eyes bent down, and evil
IDENTITY engaged in deep thought. This,
l am told, is his custom--but at home
he is seldom seen on the streets, as he
confines himself closely to his labora-
Tory, when not occupied with his public
duties. He is small, gray-haired, with
broad forehead and deep-set eyes (their
color I could not see), and stubby
moustache, half-concealing firm
mouth. Like most scholars, he is some
what stoop-shouldered, and walks with
shutting gait. AS a chemist, no man
in France ranks higher, though he is
little known outside of his own scholas-
tic circle, for the reason that he has
never published anything. His life has
been devoted to the discovery he is now
perfecting,. and that promises to bring
him such laurels as no other man OF his
age has achieved.
There has been no public exhibition
yet made of the food which Prof.
Guerette has prepared, and can speak
of it only from the description given by
scientific men, who are enthusiastic in
praise of it. They have been made &C.
quainted with the processes by which
it is formed, and express only wonder
that the same idea of tracing the food
principle to its source had not occurred
to themselves. In any other city thar
Paris there might be some hesitation
about making experiments with this
new diet; but men who hav. learned tt
sit down to o dinner of horsesteak viii
have no hesitation in trying any othel
viands that come well recommended
The food is made of earth-even, it il
said, of refuse matter. It contains il
exact proportions the four primary ele
ments necessary for nutrition. Pre-
pared with skill and care, it not onl,
has rejected all that does not assist life
but it is said to be spiced and perfumet
in such o manner as to realize on
dreams of the ambrosia of the gods
! Smell and taste are gratiied at the sam
time that digestion is rendered a pleas
ure. No stale scent of cookery linger
about it it has banished at once all tn
discomforts of the kitchen. Those VIII
: have eaten it-(and my informants ar
) medical men of high repute)-say tina
: it's effect on the system is magical, an
it's tastes beyond description in words
In their enthusiasm, they go still
/ farther, and say that NJ. Guerett's dis
| covery will do more TO Danish alcohol
ism and other perverted tastes, and re
, store the system to its normal conditio
' of healthy appetites and sound diges
ton than all the discoveries of all tn
medical men who have ever lived.
: With others, I laughed heartily at tn
; idea when it was first preached, but
! second and more sober thought La
made me- lend n readier ear to what ha