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Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Apr 3, 1879

Simple and Good.

FARINACEOUS food is recommended by an English scientist as a counteraction to intemperance. The experiment was tried upon twenty-seven liquor-drinking persons, with results substantiating the theory. Among the more striking instances of reform brought about by a change of diet was that of a gentleman of sixty, who had been addicted to intemperate habits for thirty-five years, his outbursts averaging once a week. His constitution was so shattered that he had great difficulty in insuring his life. After an attack of delirium tremens, which nearly ended fatally, he was persuaded to enter upon a farinaceous diet, which, we are assured, cured him completely in seven months.

He seems to have been very thin at the beginning of the experiment, but at the close of the period named had gained twenty-eight pounds, being then about the normal weight for a person of his height. — Christian Herald.