Excerpt from Is Flour Our Proper Food? With Some Remarks Upon the Effect of Animal Food in Consumption
Gentlemen:
In asking this question, allow me the privilege of making the request that your society will at some future time answer this question, and officially communicate the result to the public, either through your own secretary, or through the speaker. I do so because I regard bodies like your own the only legitimate organizations competent to answer questions of public hygiene, and at the same time sufficiently authoritative enough to produce decisions which will command recognition and respect. A combined, unanimous, and officially announced opinion of the now existing New England Medical Societies, on any subject connected with social or sanitary science, would have more weight with the present generation than the testimony of all the classical medical writers of the past.
"It has lately been urged by Liebig that saline matter has failed to receive its due consideration as a nutritive element of food.
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