PORRIDGE AND MILK.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4409, 20 February 1883, Page 4

PORRIDGE AND MILK.

Dr; - Jrßattr r -Tnlrere^l.P.P;,-F.E.IS.r recently delirered-ra lecture undeu^he.' auspices of ttiSfsGEdinbnrgh Health' Society, taking for his subject "The Establish-' ment and Maintenance of Brain Health?' In the course of hig remarks, tfie! lecturer said—He had. met^vfith. winy ,~cases ia which the sole ,ascertaxable cause, of, nerrous symptoms'inlyouog. "children was their Jbeing too long ,suck!fid., ,JBut, ,the idbthdr herself must'be weH'fed^andvt^a, brought, him to the consideration of another queitioni some Nspepti^he Jbe- a Srotlarid *'ilas' inlproVedi partly oecause in the new workmenJ?,hon i ae&,tbe (E me;a»,9 r of cooking were better;.aria partly rj>e£; cause new, articles jad, been, Jn.tr«>dmee3" ,jnto^4he• ; Wa^eU:,.^ I,^lelrißo?.tefl|^ that it had become deteriorated in a, very: itt^oVt'St '■'ifom^po^gl? a'nf WaP^S' •been''subßtituteds*i:fiiticll-lßfflr nutritious, and in itsel|Ta. somewhat deleterious -article of diet-—tea--and-bread. The physiologist would tell them that porridge and milk was a ' typical' food— that; was, thatlfc eontaitfed^all th&>Teto££ iary"constituents of food in~the mo'st'perfecf prpportions. ,He hadinpthing^Bay against the staff of life so long'as it wal sound in quality, s and well, fired, except that it was not such a typical food stuff as oatmeal,-and, ,for weigh^ did not possess an equai/pow'er of -n^tn|ion as porridge. It ,was the constant Use of tea that he would most; s,ti;bngiy/,d,ep/e----cate. He hoped ; hiß > teetojtali^i'riepds would not be^fery angry with him if he said thatiltt Lwab quite "open ffo Argument whether the teapot or the whisky bottle exercisedjjthe more baneful effects.on ,the public 'constitution. He did not think the question^had erer been fairly worked ontr-^Haiiiadrised all' working men, whetheEjtkey worked in the/.workshop, in the oflace, or in thejtudy,tbfeed themselres, their wires, and their children at leajßt,onee a day 6a th^most.perfect form of food whicE God had given them—-po r r~ ridge«'rid>m!lk.'^';"^--^! '-iW-)