Fruit and bread : a scientific diet / by Gustav Schlickeysen ; translated from the German, by M.L. Holbrook, with an appendix.

  • Schlickeysen, Gustav.
Date:
[1877]
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Credit: Fruit and bread : a scientific diet / by Gustav Schlickeysen ; translated from the German, by M.L. Holbrook, with an appendix. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    known fact that a diet consisting largely of flesh may seriously change the urine, causing it to be very offensive, while that of those who consume much fruit is peculiarly free from abnormal or offensive qualities. Simi- larly, the perspiration of flesh-eating men is rich in bnttric acid and ammonia, and has an offensive and decidedly sour smell. The over- loading of the blood with flesh-foods causes, in order to their decomposition, an excessive consumption of oxygen, and hence the diffi- culty of breathing and asthmatical affections of many flesh-eaters, and their excessive excre- tion of carbonic acid. Nature’s Provision for Man.—If now man is, as shown by his development and organ- ization, frugivorous, it must be that nature provides for him all that he requires for his sustenance, completely ready, and without the necessity of artificial preparation, and this we find to be actually the case. The original southern home of man presents these fruits in great abundance. The most of them are juicy; and the most important among them are figs, dates and almonds, olives, bananas, sweet potatoes, melons and grapes, bread-fruit, chest-