The Willimantic Journal

The Physician and the Cook.

Considered from the standpoint of morality and hygiene, which in some respects seems almost one and the same thing, there is no reform movement that appeals so directly to the large hearted physician as this present effort going on among us to secure rational cookery and authoritative knowledge of facts and rules in dietetic science. Why should not the doctor have a chair in the cooking school? His place in nature as prophet, lawyer, guide, philosopher and friend makes him at home wherever help is needed. What we shall eat, and how, are ever recurring problems. Upon their wise solution depend, to a great extent, the health and happiness of mankind. The experience of the past upon this subject, a hopeless, unclassified mass, wheat and chaff, about as valuable as uncut gems from a mine, is the natural inheritance of all women interested in the ennoblement of domestic life. But other times require other manners. What is the best food, and how best prepared for Nineteenth century man in America? Bewildered women are uttering the old cry: "Come over and help us." Have you sound knowledge upon the science of common things? Do you wish your fellows well? Then, friends, let us go.—Medical Journal.