Show MILK THE ORIGINAL FOOD prof osier osler tells of the dietary needs of mankind comparing the human body and the steam engine in a lecture prof oslea said sald one differentiating feature wa that while tl e engine had only one furnace and a large one the h iman body consisted of myriads of little furnaces that is cells milk was the original food of man it contained the tour four things that were necessary as food fat curd sugar and salt all dissolved in water dr well weir mitchell once showed him a robust looking patient and he remarked he looks as if he had been living on the tat fat of the land no replied dr mitchell on the fat of the cow that patient had a five years milk diet except on sundays when his wife insisted on rice pudding if vegetarians would eat their vegetables and say less abo it it they would do well many vegetarians were not as rob mentally as physically alcohol was quite unnecessary if ill the beer and spirits could be dumped into the irish channel and the north sea for a year people in en eng land would be infinitely better oi ot it if he contin ed on the second day ou dumped all tl e tobacco into the sea it would be good for you and hard on the fish |