DIET IN THE ARMY by Felix L. Oswald

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Sep 15, 1898

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 24, No. 37.

DIET IN THE ARMY.

By Felix L. Oswald

THE salt pork of the United States mess represents fat in its most objectionable form—worse in many respects than the ghee, or clarified butter, which Hindu travelers carry in bottles till it becomes too rancid even for the stoicism of Brahman ascetics. Our government does issue sugar, but only on the condition that its servants in uniform consent to swallow it in a cup of coffee. “Straight,” or in a glass of water, with a few drops of lemon juice, it would be a better complement of dry bread than pork, but administered with a dose of caffein poison, the possible blessing becomes a curse; the net result of the prescription is an injury to the recipient, especially under circumstances constituting per se a severe test of the nervous organism.—Felix L. Oswald, M.D., in Good Health.