" Mutton 1. 3. 16.
" Lamb 1. 1. 39.
" Chicken 1. 4. 34.
" Pigeon 1. 0. 12.
" Pheasant 1. 2. 8.
" Partridge 1. 4. 34.
" Calves' Feet 1. 2. 26.
" Carp 1. 0. 8.
" Whey 1. 1. 3.
" Bread 4. 1. 0.

"The relative proportion of the nourishment will be as follows:

Beef 7
Veal 9
Mutton 11
Lamb 9
Chicken 12
Pigeon 8
Pheasant 10
Partridge 12
Calves' Feet 10
Carp 8
Whey 9
Bread 33

"From the foregoing decisive experiments it is evident that white,
young, tender animal food, bread, milk, and vegetables are the best and
most effectual substances for nutrition, accretion, and sweetening bad
juices. They may not give so strong and durable mechanical force,
because being easily and readily digestible, and quickly passing all the
animal functions, so as to turn into good blood and muscular flesh, they
are more transitory, fugitive, and of prompt secretion; yet they will
perform all the animal functions more readily and pleasantly, with fewer
resistances and less labor, and leave the party to exercise the rational
and intellectual operations with pleasure and facility. They will leave
Nature to its own original powers, prevent and cure diseases, and
lengthen out life."

Now if this experiment proves what Dr. C. supposes in favor of the
lighter meats and vegetables taken together, how much more does it prove
for bread alone? For it cannot escape the eye of the least observing
that this article, though placed last in the list of Dr. Geoffroy, is by
far the highest in point of nutriment; nay, that it is about three times
as high as any of the rest. I am not disposed to lay so much stress on
these experiments as Dr. C. does; nevertheless, they prove something
Connected with the more recent experiments of Messrs. Percy and
Vauquelin and others, how strikingly do they establish one fact, at
least, viz., that bread and the other farinaceous vegetables cannot
possibly be wanting in nutriment; and how completely do they annihilate
the old-fashioned doctrine--one which is still abroad and very
extensively believed--that animal food is a great deal more nourishing
than vegetable! No careful inqu