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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    setliereal oils and wax, wliicli can in no normal way be appropriated. Pastry.—The various articles of pastry are also for the most part unsuitable food. They contain unliealtliful ingredients which disturb di- gestion and corrupt the blood. From a natural diet we may well exclude them all as at the best superfluous. Tea and Coffee—Tea, and coffee are by some writers said to promote digestion, but this asser- tion only betrays an ignorance of physiological law. The principal action of both these drinks is caused by the peculiar aromatic alkaloids, thein and caffein, two poisonous substances which ac- celerate the action of the heart and abnormally excite the nerves; and although from long use their effects may be concealed, their secret in- fluence is continued. That such poisons cannot be converted into food, nor assist in digestion, is self-evident. Their chief action consists in the solution and softening of the food and ex- crements. They promote, therefore, not diges- tion, but excretion, and thus unduly hasten the natural processes. The same is true of chocolate, the claimed nutritive value of