Salt, the forbidden fruit, or food : and the chief cause of diseases of the body and mind of man, and of animals; as taught by the ancient Egyptian priests and wise men, and by scripture ... / by Robert Howard.

  • Howard, Robert, -1854.
Date:
1851
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Credit: Salt, the forbidden fruit, or food : and the chief cause of diseases of the body and mind of man, and of animals; as taught by the ancient Egyptian priests and wise men, and by scripture ... / by Robert Howard. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ]ar effect. The use of such hitters ought there- fore to be forbidden in the making of beer. Good malt liquor, made bitter with hops, that is beer, is a very wholesome and nourishing drink; Diodorus Siculus, and other authors of antiquity, speak of its ancient use in Egypt and other coun- tries of the East, under the name of barley wine, and where it was esteemed as little inferior to wine itself. But the people of this country are now, and have long been denied the use of good beer, or good wine. The rich, with comparatively few exceptions, cannot get good and wholesome wine, because its high price causes it to be imitated, and hurtfully adulterated with the mineral acids, and otherwise. The poor cannot get good beer, because hurtful and improper substances are used in making the liquor now sold as beer, which is again salted, that it may be immoderately drunk. If we had a wholesome beer- sold in this country, much more would be consumed than now is, as very many persons at present abstain both from wine and beer, in consequence of their unwhole- someness from the above-mentioned causes, and others not here spoken of. Chammomile ale, or beer, would be excellent as a variety for invalids; but nothing is better than pure hop beer. Vinegar, that is pure sour wine, is wonderfully beneficial to man’s constitution, when used as a condiment with food, as all history and experience prove. And if the unspeakable good to be de- rived from olive oil were generally understood, all