Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1884-02-13
Cheap shd Good Food.

L. r. Allison, OF London, a. noted
doctor, says, "allow me to bring under
the notice Of the public some expert
ments L have Just concluded to solve
the difficulty of feeding our poor III
London, and elsewhere. The cry is
that food is so dear that the people can
scarcely hive. This cry is true if they
want to live on luxuries, but if they
will live on wholesome. but plain and
healthy fare, they can do SO for very
little. A little over a month ago I de-
termined to give upall expensive articles
of TODD and live almost as cheaply as
possible. Having left off flesh foods for
nearly two years, and lecturing krequent-
ly on the question of food, knew what
to select.
/. Looklng over my food accounts
found milk, butter, eggs and cheese,
with tea and coffee, weBe fairly expens-
i've articles, and none of them necessary,
so L gave them up. On October 18th
: l began my experiment; my weight was
then Q stone 8 ounces. 1 continued
this purely vegetarian diet for a month,
when my weight was stone 3 pounds
IL ounces, or gain of 3! pounds.
My friends said 1 looked well; L felt
well, and did my usual work the same
as ever, L walked from 10 to Is miles
daily, seeing patients or taking exer-
else. Here Is an account of my dietary,
which cost me little more than six
pence a day, and L could easily live for
less without luxnries. Breakfast con-
sisted OF basin of porridse, made from
mixture Oh oatmeal and wheatmeal,
which l. found more palatabls than
either. singly. This L usually ate with
bread to insure thorough insalIyation.
Then came bread fried In refined cotton
seed oil, or fried vegetable haggis. For
drink | had a cup of cocoa or fruit
syrup, with warm water and sugar
The cocoa used was an ordinary one
with plenty'Of starch init, which makes
thick drink, and no milk Is then re-
qulred. Dinner conslsted OF a thick
vegetable soup aud bread, potatoe pie,
savory pie, vegetarian pie, vegetable
stew, stewed rice and tomatoes, etc.
For a second course had bread plum
pudding, stewed rice and fruit, baked
sago, tapioca. and apples stewed prunes,
figs, raIslns and bread. Tea meat con-
sisted of bread and jam, stewed fruit
or some green stutf, as watercress,
celery, tomatoes, etc. L had only three !
meals day, antfrequeatly whel very
busy, L had only two, aud cup. OF |
cocoa and biscuit for supper. Ialways I
use the whole-meal bread, as it is laxa-
tive and contains a good deA of nitro
gen, which Is thrown away with the |
bran. The cotton seed oil Is cheap |
and good cooking oil, and is impossible
10 detect. This diet L continued for a /
month, and now | only tase the animal |
products when out hot having syhe.n /
AT my table.
Now compare this diet with oGe OF |
flesh or mixed one The latest an
naiysls shows flesh to contain from 10 /
to "a per Cent. of water, the dry resi-
due being vety rich In nitrogen, and 1t
contains little carbonaceOus or fatty
matter. Hence, to live on meat alone,
as much as eight pounds day Is neces-
sary. Then there are to be con nsIderei
the diseases of animals, which are CON.
munIcable to man If tuat hesn be not
thoroughly cooked all through; and as
very few OF our animals live a perfectly
natural life, most of them are more or
less diseased, especially the fat ones.
The excess OF nitrogen taken into the
system IN eating hesh meat has to be
got rid of by the liver, kidneys, and
lungs; hence, these organs are over
taxed, and much disease Is the con-
sequence. In fact, were it not for flesh .
food We doctors should have very little
to do. Man living In towns canlo.
afford to eat much flesh, because he ;
does not get sufficient exercise and oxy-
gen to burn up the III rogen. Ii he I
does eat this flesh, and if he eat much
then he must suffer from many COM
plants, such as indigestion, bilious at t
tacks, congested liver, hemorrhoiis. u
gastric cataTrh. and other gastic troubles /
Ii the habit be continued IN, gall stones
or urinary calcui may follow, or rhuma- /
tism and gout. Then the kidneys be. '
come diseased, and more work is thrown l
on the heart, which Incomes also dis /
ca ed; the end Is death by one of the {
lingering diseases which shows dis /
easel organ somewhere. Even epilepsy |
and many nervous diseases are aggra- 5
vated by flesh l.
. Cancer Is on the increase, and, from :
some observations have made, it may |
be ind reotly traced 10 flesh. Con- |
has only a remote connection
with flesh, II being chiefly to want of
fresh AIR. Vegetable food Is cheap, t
contains an abundant supply OF nutri- a
ment at first cost, and our systems are I
so formed as to use it with least ex- C
cluelty in obtaining our food, and can /
eanly see if 1t he wholesome or in q I
rot en- state. d
Ey means of our diet much disease rs |
pre- vented, and even most chronic cases
)f present disease can be auevia,ed by
t. If we want a cheap dietry We have
he following foods to choose from: O
Wheat, oats, barley, maize, rice, sage, 5
apiocs, ssmolina, honiny, peas, beans, S
entils, etc., which are ali concentrated
oods and very rich in nutrIment. PO- {
atoes, parsnips, beets, carrots, turnips {
'nlons, cabbage, sprouts, etc., give Q
Tariety. bulk and flavor; to these may il
De added the sweet herbs for making r
ayory dishes. Apples, pears, currants, '
plums, Strawberries, rasps, S
and other fruits, with 4
melons, peaches, grapes, etc., are high Q
priced but wholesome fruits. The d
lr led fruits, as dates, figs, apple rings, q
raislns, etc., are cheap and c
,ood. To these may be added timed '
roods. thus one cap see the immense
-ariety of tasty things we have, and r
hese to suit ali purses. We can add !
% these milk, butter, cheese, eggs and
loney, which are got without killing
But If We take animal food,
hen fish Is least injurious, then beef
md mutton, while veal, pork, game,
tc., are very indigestible, and ought
o be avoided.