After describing a boy who died at about my own age because his nervous
system had been deprived of the proper life-giving elements which had
been taken from his food by modern processes, the Professor took up
a handful of wheat letting it fall repeatedly through his fingers,
stating that each grain of wheat contains in it all of the elements
required to sustain human life. He said that civilization, by taking
away the outside, the most nutritious part of the wheat, had struck a
blow at the physical development of our race. He declared that man can
live for years on whole wheat requiring no other article of diet, and
that the outside of the wheat especially, now thrown aside as bran
and fed to the cattle, contains the elements of bone and nerve fibre,
that, while the lady who eats only the choicest white bread, made
of the finest flour, has to substitute gold for parts of her teeth,
the teeth of the cattle that eat the bran are perfect. He gave as an
illustration the march of Caesar and his legions through Gallia, when
Caesar's soldiers often for weeks at a time were without provisions and
were compelled to feed on whole wheat alone which they would snatch
in handfuls from the fields as they marched, thresh in the palms of
their hands and grind with their molars. The crushing of the hard wheat
grain gave the teeth exercise while the crushed bran and surface of the
grain supplied those elements required in the construction of bone and
teeth. "At the present time, nineteen centuries after," so this doctor
said, "there are numerous skulls of these same soldiers of the great
Caesar to be seen in the London Museum and as a result of their wheat
mastication, every tooth is as sound in these skulls, as whole and free
from decay as when heathen Rome was Mistress of the World and Caesar
was King."
A PERSONAL EXPERIENCE.
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