Identifier: funnysideofphysi01unse (find matches)
Title: The funny side of physic : or, The mysteries of medicine, presenting the humorous and serious sides of medical practice. An exposé of medical humbugs, quacks, and charlatans in all ages and all countries
Year: 1874 (1870s)
Authors: Crabtre, A. D.(Addison Darre)
Subjects: Medicine Medicine Quacks and quackery Quackery
Publisher: Hartford, The J. B. Burr publishing co.
Contributing Library: Yale University, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Yale University, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library

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SIGNS OF CIVILIZATION. BUCKWHEAT CAKES. G03 from affluence to poverty, with a large family of small chil-dren dependent on her manual labor for daily food, shemade a variety of experiments to ascertain what articlescould be purchased for the least mone), and would, at thesame time, go the farthest, by keeping her children longestfrom crying for something to eat. She soon discovered thatwhen they ate buckwheat cakes and molasses, they werequiet for a longer time than after eating any other kind offood/ A distinguished indue of the United States District Courtobserved that when he took buckwheat cakes for breakfast,he could sit on the bench the whole day without being un-comfortably hungry. If the cakes were omitted, he feltobliged to take a lunch about noon. Buckwheat cakes are auniversal favorite at the winter breakfast table, and scientificinvestigation and analysis have shown that they abound inthe heat-forming principle ; hence nature takes away ourappetite for them in summer. Anot

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