How to live well on five shillings a week per head / by L. Rutherfoord Skey.

  • Skey, L. Rutherfoord.
Date:
1910
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Credit: How to live well on five shillings a week per head / by L. Rutherfoord Skey. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    to “ tickle the ears of the groundlings ; and that our work is devoid of literary elegancies we are conscious. We set forth in it no particular system of diet; we claim to have discovered no attain- able goal of Eternal Youth, to be reached by any digestive route. We preach no Potato Gospel. Devotees at the shrine of vegetari- anism will find here no convincing and irrefut- able testimony in favour of their pet dietetic theories ; the “ Roast Beef of Old England school will look in vain for impassioned support of their view of the making of manhood and muscle. Meat we believe to be necessary; vegetables we believe to be essential ; but we regard them as complementary. We hold occasional fasting to be as imperative as oc- casional feasting; but we do not advocate long periods of abstinence from food, or any period of eating to satiety. In short, we are not cranks. To use, but not to abuse, the good things provided by Nature is a lesson few people really learn. It is our opinion that the greater part of the average family's doctor’s bill is incurred wholly and solely through over-eating ; and this remark applies to the poor no less than to the rich. We do not wait till our