The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-02-23
PHILOSOPHY OF DIGESTION.


THE BEST FORMS OF FOOD-sTARCH AND BRAN
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
The inaugural exercises of the Eectro-Medcal Col
lege took place yesterday afternoon In Chckering
Hail. The President, DR.. Albert j. Steele, delv-
cred an opening address upon electrical science in Their
apeutics, after which Mr. Frank Fuller, Ex-Governor OF
Utah, spoke upon the "True Philosophy OF Digestion"
The speaker began by saying that the pertinent query
OF the day was "What shall we catY" The assertion
was wildly uttered that grain of wheaS contains all
the elements entering into mans physical structure,
and therefore that wheat IL mans intended and appro
pirate food BY the use OF the microscope we discov-
that grain wheat was simply organized with
avew to its perpeuation that three OF its four
grand divisions-the inert hull the heterogeneous
gluten, with It's contained mineral salts and the tiny
boxes OF starch within these outer layers were all sub
servent to the fourth-the germinal atom. the life
principle. good food provided Tor was
milk, pure unaduterated milk. He took the
average OF 5000 infants and said II was
determined that the fair amount Of food per diem for
the FIRST month Of lie pint of this fluid when
fresh from the COW, unadultorated and pure, was
ample for all the needs Of the human sys-
tern At any age could be mado popular he
believed there would be small need Tor books
ana lectures and periodicals devoted to the
subject OF food. MIX should be taken slowly, not
drunk, people were accustomed TO drink II. The
solid food 30 universally prescribed Tor a, growing
used. It was always starch IN some form, supple
mentcd with o little mk-corn starch arrow root
starch starch In the garb OF soda crackers starch in
the guise Of white Hour Cruel The practice was In
furious. Fine -four pernicious, although 1t was
popular TO select the finest and whtost
GRAHAM FALLACY
He referred at some length to Dr. Jackson, OF Bos-
ton. who asserted that there was more food in the
wasted bran than In tho white -four Ho made small
Roadway IN convincing the people, and was followed
by Sylvester Graham, New Yorker and an enthu-
sust who went far beyond DIR. Jackson in his advo-
cacy OF harsh foods An eager multitude selzed upon
his IDEAS and Graham flour, Graham bread aud Ora
ham ''buns became staple food His error was
grlevous ono, and to-day hygenic writers
gave rise TO like heresies, and advocated the
use harsh foods which deeterious to the sys
tenn On The other hand, he did not recommend diet
OF Jellies and Stops but Diet composed less OF the
siarchy elements that formed the principal part
OF food and substitution OF carbonaceous iood,
especially the vegetable ORGANISING To be healthy and
muscular men should put more starch in their shirt
fronts and less beneath them He predicted a great
revolution IN diet, and alluded to what the milcrs
termed the "new process Tor grinding wheat II was
simply high grinding and regrinding machine that
bruised rubbed tho wheat and avoided the de-
structive heat which had vtated former processes.
This process conserved all the best clements for
bread. Where the gray gluten Of the wheat was al
-four darker, put it was more wholesome and was the
only perfect food for diabetc sufferers
CHEW, BROTHERS, CHEW WITH CARE.
Masticatlon was strictly essential to good health.
Mastlcation had cured more cases Of Indigestion than
all the drugs in all the planets but the teeth, winch
made for mastication-the pearly portals 10 the
citadel OF the stomach-were neglected, and became
crumbling grave stones, from which cmanaed tho
most nosome II I'm possible to have good
digestion unless the food was thoroughly masticatcd
BY carefully studying that condition of perfect
tort which attends and indicates perfect nutrition
good digestion, appetite and health would wait upon
such wisdom.
At the. conclusion OF his remarks Mr.. Charles
Strauss delivered brief address relative to the work