Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Is Flour Our Proper Food? With Some Remarks Upon the Effect of Animal Food in Consumption
According to these authorities, a deficiency of mineral salts in the vegetations named is supposed to be a sufficient cause for decay. Now, it is an interesting question whether there is any article of food employed by mankind which is deficient in mineral matter. If so, then it should be made known to every family in the land.
Perhaps there is no article of food more generally con sumed than ?our, i. E., wheat ?our. In the forms of bread, cakes, and pastry of all kinds, it enters into every house, and is universally used and regarded as the staff of life.
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