| Show INVENTOR OF GRAHAM BREAD lecturer who taught that disease is e result of disobedience to physical laws sylvester graham first appeared in now york as a lecturer I 1 think in the winter of 1831 32 ile ho had apen been it a presbyterian byte by terian ilan clergyman settled in now new tersey and was styled doctor goligh I 1 do not know that he ever studied or practiced medicine he believed therefore taught that health la is the necessary result of obedience disease that of ills also 0 hed bed jence to physical laws that all stimulants whether alcoholic or narcotic are pernicious and should be rejected save possibly in those rare cases where one poison may be wisely employed to neutralize or expel another ho he condemned tea and affee Cf coffee fee as well aa tobacco opium and alcoholic potables portables po tables elder and beer equally with brandy arid and gin save that tho the poison to IB more concentrated in the latter clatter ile he ds disapproved approved of all spices and condl ments save grudgingly a very little salt and ho he held that moro more suitable and wholesome food for human beings than than the flesh of animals can almost always be procured aud and should be preferred tho the bolting of meal to separate its coarser from its finer parti clog cies he also re probated teaching that the ripe sound bound berry bena of wheat or rye being ground to the requisite fineness should in no manner be sifted but should be made into loaves and eaten precisely as the milt atones deliver it autobiography of horace greeley |
