Food Materials and Their Adulterations

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Estes and Lauriat, 1886 - 183 sider

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Side 29 - Germ Theory of Disease," says, " This theory is, that many diseases are due to the presence and propagation in the system of minute organisms (ie, living beings) having no part or share in its normal economy.
Side 12 - We are always in these days endeavouring to separate the two; we want one man to be always thinking, and another to be always working, and we call one a gentleman, and the other an operative; whereas the workman ought often to be thinking, and the thinker often to be working, and both should be gentlemen, in the best sense.
Side 63 - Turkey." — (ELLIS.) The sensible properties and effects of coffee, like those of tea, are too well known to require to be stated in detail It exhilarates, arouses, and keeps awake ; it allays hunger to a certain extent, gives to the weary increased strength and vigour, and imparts a feeling of comfort and repose. Its physiological effects upon the system, so far as they have been investigated, appear to be, that, while it makes the brain more active, it soothes the body generally, makes the change...
Side 110 - That the starch sugar thus made and sent into commerce is of exceptional purity and uniformity of composition, and contains no injurious substances.
Side 173 - Corn meal is indeed cheaper, but the oatmeal has this great advantage over corn meal and wheat flour, that it has more protein. Of course, if we are to eat large quantities of lean meat — and...
Side 52 - It tempers the spirits and harmonizes the mind, dispels lassitude and relieves fatigue, awakens thought and prevents drowsiness, lightens or refreshes the body and clears the perceptive faculties...
Side 60 - The Turks have a drink called coffee (for they use no wine), so named of a berry as black as soot, and as bitter, (like that black drink which was in use amongst the Lacedaemonians, and perhaps the same,) which they sip still of, and sup as warm as they can suffer...
Side 13 - Now, it is only by labor that thought can be made healthy, and only by thought that labor can be made happy ; and the two cannot be separated with impunity.
Side 45 - galvanized " iron, as it is called, is fully as bad in respect to rusting. The pipes are prepared by dipping the iron, previously well cleaned by means of dilute acid, into a bath of melted zinc. The zinc adheres firmly to the surface of the iron, and penetrates it to a certain extent, so that we do not deal with a simple coating, such as we have on tinned iron, or on the various forms of enameled pipe.
Side 124 - Press up the bottom of the can ; if decomposition is commencing, the tin will rattle the same as the bottom of the oiler of your sewing machine does. If the goods are sound it will be solid, and there will be no rattle to the tin.

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