Observations on such nutritive vegetables as may be substituted in the place of ordinary food, in times of scarcity.

Antoine-Augustin Parmentier

Date:: 1783

Credit: Observations on such nutritive vegetables as may be substituted in the place of ordinary food, in times of scarcity. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$\ [ 62 ] whitefl and pureft ftarch of the magnoe, affords excellent and very wholefome broths for debilitated and confumptive patients, ■0 Potatoes, I repeat it, may fupply the place of falep and fago, in times of plenty; two fubftances imported from very diftant countries, and on that account liable to be fufpedted of improper mixtures. If they are fpecifics for our difeafes, their exorbi- tant price prevents the poor from profit- ing by them. The fubflitutes here pro- pofed will coft almoft nothing : four pounds of Potatoes afford one pound of fa- lep $ and fix pounds, one of fago. Shall we for ever lay the two Indies under contribution to fatisfy our principal wants, and value only what is imported from far, and has the merit of growing in another hemifphere ? CHAPTER$

Observations on such nutritive vegetables as may be substituted in the place of ordinary food, in times of scarcity.

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