THE 
GLUTTONY PLAGUE: 
» OR, 
HOW PERSONS KILL THEMSELVES BY EATING 
BY JAMES C. JACKSON, M. D. 
PHYSICIAN-IN-CHIEF AT “OUR HOME ON THE HILLSIDE,” 
DANSVILLE, N. Y. 
DANSVILLE, N. Y. 
AUSTIN JACKSON & CO.. PUBLISHERS. 
1870. OUR HOME 01 THE HILLSIDE, 
DANSVILLE, LIVINGSTON CO., N. Y. 
This Institution I* the largest Hygienic Water Cure at present existing In the world. 
It is presided over by and is under the medical management of Hr. Jamas 0. Jackson, 
who is the discoverer of the Psycho Hygienic method of treating the sick, and under the 
application of which he hue treated nearly 2D.U00 persons In the hist twenty years, with 
most eminent success, and without ever giving any of them any medicine. 
The Psycho-Hygienic philosophy of treating the sick, no matter what their age, sex, 
or disease, consists in the use of those means only as remedial agencies, whose ordinary 
or legitimate effect on the human living body when taken into or applied to it, is tu;rre- 
terre its health The fallacy of giving poisonous medicines to Invalids has been shun 
dantly shown in Our Home in the results of our treatment. 
Our Institution is large enough to accommodate 260 guests, is, after the plan adopt- 
ed by us, complete in all its appointments, having worthy and intelligent helpers in all 
Its departments of labor, and who give their proportion of sympathy and influence to 
the creation and maintenance of a sentiment and opinion cheering to the invalid, and 
therefore decidedly therapeutic In Its effects. The scenery ahont the Kataldiahment is 
very beautiful, the air is dry and very salubrious, we have plenty of sunshiue, and pure 
soft living water in great abundance. Resides all these, and which we prize as one of 
the highest privileges and health-giving opportunities our guests could possibly have, we 
live ourselves and so can enable them to live, free from fashion and her expensive and 
rainoua ways. Life with us is simple not sybaritic, is true not hollow and false, and so 
of itself tends to its own perpetuation and of course to health. A great many of our 
guests who have for years been great sufferers, growing steadily more sickly, begin to 
get well, and go on getting well In such silent yet sure, in such imperceptible yet certain 
ways, as never to be conscious how it was brought about. The means used seem so utterly 
incommensurate to the results produced, that it seems marvelous. Bo true is It that in 
Nature 
“God’s mightiest things 
Are Ills simplest things,” 
and that to nnderetand hote things are done, one needs to cultivate a teachable spirit 
and to cheriah reverence for Law. To teach those who come to us for treatment what 
the laws of Hfa are, ami l'i ewwken in them the deatre to obey these laws, la to establish 
a moat favorable condition precedent to their recovery. Sick ones, whoever you are, or 
wherever you are, do you want to get well! And to learn bow to keep your health, 
having got well? Come to Our Home If you can, and once here learn the all important 
lesson that 
* Nature aa a mlatreaa la gentle and holy, 
And to obey Her la to lire.” 
Circulars of tbs Institution. or any information In regard to It, may be obtained by 
addressing either Jemee C. Jackson. M. D., Miss Harriet N. Anetin, M. !>., or Hr. Jamee 
(1. Jackson. These Physicians may also he consulted by letter by the sick who are no 
able to attend the eetabliahment. Fee for home preecriptlon $6.00. 
AUSTIN, JACKSON & CO., 
Proprietor*. 
Harriet N. Acstiw, 
James II. JacRSOS, 
Lccrria K. Jacrsos, THE 
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GLUTTONY PLAGUE: 
OR, 
HOW PERSONS KILL THEMSELVES BY EATING 
BY JAMES C. JACKSON, M. I)., 
PHYSIClAN-IN-CHIKF AT “ OUR HOME ON THE HILLSIDE,” 
DANSVILLE, N. Y. 
DANSVILLE, N. Y. 
AUSTIN. JACKSON & CO„ PUBLISHERS. 
1868. THE GLUTTONY PLAGUE: 
OR, 
HOW PERSONS KILL THEMSELVES BY EATING. 
There is no better portion of the earth’s surface on which 
to support human life to old age than that which lies within 
the boundaries of the United States. It is sufficiently varied 
and undulating, giving mountain and glen, valley and hill; and 
its products usable for food are ample. The sun shines over 
its larger portions abundantly, its air is purer than can be 
found elsewhere on the globe in the same number of square 
miles, its climate is temperate, and in much of it the water is 
soft and fit to drink. And what we call the changes of the 
seasons are not by any means unfriendly, but on the other 
hand favorable to the health of human beings living in natural 
conditions. Yet of civilized peoples, having distinct national- 
ities and numbering as largely as we do, there is none that has 
as much sickness as we have. For this there must be artifi- 
cial causes at work, inasmuch as natural causes are favorable 
to health. 
Bad Dietetics. 
Of these artificial causes, which are numerous, bad eating 
habits stand prominent. I know that to these all the ill 
health which our people show cannot be ascribed, for in 4 
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almost every direction we live falsely. We work too hard, 
sleep insufficiently, dress unphysiologically and void of true 
taste and in defiance of art; we know little or nothing of 
recreation, except in the way of excess; understand very 
poorly the intimate relation existing between body and mind, 
and how the expenditure of mental force debilitates the body; 
while over and beyond all these we are related to bodily life 
falsely, from causes that are altogether spiritual. Thus, in a 
great variety of ways, there are at work a combination of 
forces that fritter away, or at least cheapen, our hold on what- 
ever of life we constitutionally possess. It would take a course 
of lectures to give you even a birds-eye view of tHein. So I 
shall let tbem pass, confining myself at this time to the theme 
I have selected, winch is 
Gluttony, and its Effects on us as a People. 
One may be a glutton in either of three ways. 
1— By eating food which is unhealthy in itself, or is so from 
being badbjr cooked. 
2— By eating too much. 
3— By eating at improper times. 
Let us consider these specifications in their order, and then 
we will look at the effects. 
Till close attention is given to the subject, you will not 
readily perceive how extended the use of unhealthy food is 
with our people. Scarcely an article can be found which is 
not defective, and so in greater or lesser degree unfit to be 
used for sustenance. Let me begin with raw materials. 
(a). MEATS. 
The flesh of most of the animals consumed comes to the 
butcher in conditions which make it totally unfit to be eaten IIOW PEOPLE KILL THEMSELVES BY EATING. 
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by human beings. Whatever may be said for or against 
the flesh of animals as food for man, one thing is certain, 
that to subject them to conditions or states of living in 
order to fatten them, which violate the laws on which their 
healthy existence depends, is to make them unhealthy, and so 
far unfit for nutriment to us. Society recognizes the moral 
impropriety of using diseased meat, and the law forbids its sale 
in the shambles. The application of the principle under the 
statute, however, is usually confined to the sale of flesh which 
has passed through chemical changes subsequent to the death 
of the'animals. As far as this goes it is well, but it is demon- 
strable, I think, that we suffer far more from the use of flesh 
which was diseased previous to the animals being killed, than 
we could by any ordinary means from the use of that which 
afterwards becomes spoiled. For in this latter case our know- 
ledge is complete. We have the benefit of experience founded 
on observation, and to our aid we have become accustomed to 
call our special sense not only, but our instincts. Every one 
knows diseased meat when it has taken on more or less of 
putrescence, but not one person in a thousand knows, or if he 
does, thinks it worth his while to act on the knowledge, that 
fat hogs, fattened beeves, fattened turkeys and calves are 
much more unfit for the use of man, than the half putrescent 
flesh of animals could be which, up to the time of their death, 
were healthy. Who ever heard of one’s getting Scrofula into 
his blood and his bones by eating of the flesh of the wild boar, 
or of the buffalo ? These may be or may not be desirable 
food, but it is certainly true that their use, even to excess, will 
not engender this poison. But the stye-fed pig and stall-fed ox, 
especially if they have been kept so confined as to make them' 
take on high condition, i. e. become very fat,—are diseased 
in all their tissues, these being overloaded with waste matter, 
which for want of opportunity under natural habits of the 
animal, their excretory organs have been unable to expel, and 6 
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which matterB therefore have undergone vital changes, and 
from substances which formerly had life in them and so helped 
to keep the bodies of these animals in health, have become 
effete, useless, deleterious, and very poisonous in their effects, 
thus rendering the flesh into every cell of which they are infil- 
trated decidedly objectionable as food for man. In a majority 
of instances, Buch is the long continued imposition of false 
habits and conditions to which we subject those animals whose 
fatness we have in view, that their systems become scrofulous 
before we put the knife to their throats, and when they are 
killed and hung up in the market-place wo pay high prices for 
a method of introducing deadly poison into our life-currents, 
easier by far than that which vaceination offers. 
Very few families are now to be found into the veins of 
whose members the poison of scrofula has not already made 
its way, establishing such abnormal conditions of their nutri- 
tive systems as to make every one of them have a gluttonous 
appetite, for by all physicians who have had to do with scrofu- 
lous habit of body, it has come to be known that their patients 
have inordinate craving for food, and are good examples of 
the Voracious Glutton. 
(b). GRAINS. 
Our staples for food in the United States are Wheat and 
Indian Corn. Either of these is excellent for sustaining the 
human body, though wheat meal is the better of the two. 
Of wheat, that is best which is known as the white winter 
wheat. Of corn, that is the best which iB known as the 
southern white corn. In the northern and middle States 
the people use more wheat than corn. In the southern and 
south-western States they use more corn than wheat. There 
is more need of care in the raising of wheat, that it pass 
pure from the hands of the granary man to those of the HOW PEOPLE KILL THEMSELVES BY EATING. 
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miller, than there is of corn, for with the former may grow up 
foreign substances, which being ground with it deteriorate its 
meal very much, whereas corn grows clean and free from such 
substances. Of those which grow up with wheat, and not 
uncommonly are ground with it, is 
Cockle.—When ripe the seed is black on the outside and 
bluish-white on the inside, and slightly bitter in its raw state 
to the taste. It is powerfully constipating to the bowels, and 
when steeped in hot water, its kernel being unbroken, is said 
by old Dutch women to be “ good to stop the nose-bleed,” 
when sniffed into the nostrils. In this respect it has the same 
popular repute as yarrow. I have seen, in my farming days, 
its costive effects on horses to which it had been fed, and I am 
quite sure of the same effect being produced on the bowels of 
persons who eat bread in which its flour formed only a slight 
constituent. Farmers should take great pains to weed it out 
of their wheat fields when it is in the blow, for its presence in 
the grain detracts largely from its fitness for use. 
Grinding Grain.—It would be an interesting fact to be 
stated how and by what means wheat first came to have its 
coarser parts separated from its finer, in order the better to 
prepare it for being made into bread. I do not know how 
greater departure from the true method for preparing wheat 
into material for the cook could have well been'devised. If 
there is any article of which food in various forms can he made 
that is unhealthy, and directly productive of a large class of 
diseases, it is wheat ground and bolted of its bran. I care not 
how careful a people may be in all other respects of the rules of 
Hygiene, it is utterly impossible that for years they should en- 
joy individual or collective health if fine flour bread is a staple 
article of food. Nature cannot protect the organisms of those 
who eat it against derangement for any length of time, unless 8 
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they are exceedingly robust aud vigorous, and then such break 
down early. The reason is, that whereas wheat when ground 
into meal, and eaten in whatever form one pleases to cook it, 
which is simple, is by far the best article for human food 
known,—better than flesh of animals,—a hundred per cent, 
better than the best beef steak in the quantity of nutriment it 
contains, and four fold its superior in the quality of its nutri- 
ment, when it is made into superfine flour, degenerates into one 
of the most objectiouable materials for food our people use, 
and when made into bread, puddings or cake, should never be 
largely eaten. It is only safe to eat this grain as a staple—as 
the main article of food—when it is ground into meal instead 
of flour, then, in the whole range of edible substances, it has 
no rival. The strongest can gather strength from it, the most 
delicate cau digest it with impunity. In proportion to its 
nutrient qualities, it will make more muscle than any other 
substance known. Aud it furnishes to the nervous system 
what, for want of a better term, I call magnetism, in larger 
measure than any other food. Hence between the man living 
exclusively on food, prepared in simple manner to suit his taste, 
from the meal or unbolted flour of winter wheat, and him who 
should live exclusively on the flesh of animals—provided they 
live so, long enough to have decided effects shown — there 
would be seen as wide a difference in character as between an 
angel and a demon, and in enduring STRENGTH under the 
guidance of instinctive intelligence, as between an elephant 
and a tiger. If one wishes to use wheat under various forms 
of cookery as a chief article of food for ones self or family, 
never bolt it when ground. You may be laughed at as a 
“ bran-bread eater.” “ Let those Laugh who Win.”—Your 
“withers” (bowels) will be “unwrung.” If you wish to eat 
pastries, rich cakes, puddings, knick-nacks, in the shape of 
“ dessert,” u«e superfine flour. It will assist in making your 
bowels costive, your stomach dyspeptic, your head ache, your HOW PEOPLE KILL THEMSELVES BY EATING. 
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heart palpitate, jour nerves neuralgic, your kidneys excess 
ively active, your skin rough, rashy and insensitive, and par- 
tially dead. It will also assist in making your mind cloudy, 
your moral sense obtuse, and aid to drive you over to the 
drug-doctor who will “ set you all right/’ by giving you cathar- 
tics one day and stimulants the next, only to have you in his 
hands again after you have pursued for a while the same silly 
course as formerly. 
The Deterioration of the Quality of Ground Grains. 
—Wheat is always much better for food when used soon after 
grinding, and this whether unbolted or bolted. To grind it 
and pack it in barrels is to injure its quality. Especially is 
this true of unbolted flour. Of Indian Corn it may be said 
that to grind it and keep it for use of man or beast for consid- 
erable length of time, is very detrimental to health. When 
the meal has become stale it has well nigh become poisonous, 
and is positively injurious to persons whose digestive organs 
are delicate. It would be a great improvement for private 
families to grind their own grains. Iron mills, turned by 
horse or hand power, are now purchasable at moderate cost, 
and are of great utility. They are no better than the stone 
grist mill, only so far as they enable their possessors to grind 
grain as it is wanted for use. 
VEGETABLES. 
There is a great lack of thought in the raising of vegeta- 
bles. Considered by most persons who use them to serve a 
very inferior purpose in the dietetic programme—a purpose of 
filling up simply—little care is taken in raising them of the 
best quality. Potatoes, which next to bread are of prime con- 
sideration with us, are oftener than otherwise of inferior qual- 
ity. They are coarse in pulp, and from this cause are less 10 
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nutritive. The percentage of nutritive matter in potatoes of 
the best quality is not large, compared with other substan- 
ces used—say the grains, beans, rice, peas, tapioca, sago and 
arrowroot — but they are but little inferior to flesh meats, 
whatever the popular impression to the contrary. Yet to a 
very great extent potato growers plant their fields without 
stopping to learn that, for the purpose of human sustenance, 
“ pink eyes” or “ mercers” have in 70 bushels as much fooa 
as nearly 100 bushels of coarse-grained, watfery “ meriuos ” 
COOKERY 
Having called your attention sufficiently to our defective 
raw material out of which we prepare food, permit me to pass 
on to the common method or style of cooking such material. 
Fresh Meats.—Pork is with us chiefly boiled or fried— 
seldom broiled or roasted except when fresh, and the season of 
fresh pork is quite limited in duration. Beef is generally 
roasted or broiled when fresh, or boiled when corned, and mut- 
ton the same. Fowls are boiled, broiled, roasted and fricasseed. 
Of the various kinds of cooking, broiling is the best, the 
process leaving the meat the nearest to its natural state : 
|©“the natural or raw state being that in which—mastication 
aside — the stomach disintegrates and makes it into chyme 
with the least expenditure of its available force. True, our 
taste is not as much in favor of eating it raw, but taste should 
not clamor for indulgence where law is concerned, especially 
when it is borne in remembrance that very few persons have 
other than artificial tastes, the offspring of false culture in 
almost every direction. There is no possible doubt that taste 
for raw flesh can be cultivated with little difficulty, and when 
once acquired is productive of very great alimentive pleasure. 
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anything edible a greater relish than at one time I had for 
raw salt pork, or for raw salted and smoked lean ham. If 
beef-eaters, pork-eaters, fowl-eaters, and fish-eaters would only 
learn to eat the flesh of their animals raw, they would find 
after a while greatly added gusto in the act, and much less 
liability to disordered digestion within the limits of moderate 
indulgence; though it is not to be denied that the eater of 
raw meat is much more likely to eat it to excess than he who 
eats it cooked, by reason that his taste for other things dies 
out, and at last comes to concentrate itself on flesh only. 
Such one would be essentially carniverous, and type out the 
Ravenous Glutton. But it follows, that if raw meat well 
masticated is easier to digest than when it is cooked—and it 
certainly is after the stomach has become accustomed to its 
presence within its walls—then the less it is cooked the better, 
and the simpler the process the more desirable it is. 
Of all forms of cooking the flesh of animals, broiling is the 
least exceptionable, and the less dressing the better. We 
make great mistake in soaking our flesh, fowl, and fish with 
butter, half rancid far the most part, whose rancidity we hide 
by salt, pepper, and mustard. Eat the meat rare-done, with 
no fixings—as a trapper in the west would eat it—and it is as 
relishable as one with an artificial taste can have it. 
COOKING OF GRAINS 
We spoil our food made of grains by the way in which we 
cook it. We use as a diluent or menstruum, hard water. 
This I have spoken against in my lecture on “ Baths,” as hav- 
ing a direct tendency to make the articles cooked in it, or of 
which it is a constituent, less edible than otherwise. Bread 
wet with hard water, and baked without rising, can never be 
as good as if wet with soft water. A wheaten pudding wet 
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in hard water, will be heavy instead of light, when done. 
“Apple dumplings," “pot-pie crust," cooked in hard water 
will be heavy instead of light, and when cut with a knife look 
like blue clay. “Minute pudding" will be “soggy” when 
made of hard water and superfine flour. “Hasty pudding" 
and water gruel will be less palatable aud less digestible when 
made of corn meal and hard water, ftair Hard water was 
made to turn machinery, and not to feed human, animal or 
vegetable tissues; and if proof is wanted of what I say, let a 
man having a dry garden irrigate part of it with hard and 
part with soft water, and watch the effect on his plants, and 
he will get his demonstration. 
Bread—Wheaten and Corn.—We spoil our bread in 
putting yeast into it. Yeast is a decaying substance, belong- 
ing to the putrescent family, and partakes of the nature of 
the toadstool ou the dung-hill. Microscopic investigations 
show that bread, when in the process of “ rising," is undergo- 
ing fermentation, i. e., its constituents are changing, and in 
the change infinitesimal fungi start up, whose presence really 
cause the lightness which so many think desirable. These are 
not killed by baking, and are of so minute size as not unfre- 
quently to pass into the blood and cause intense suffering, and 
constitute the real reason why “ raised bread " cannot be 
eaten by persons whose “ nerves are deranged," whose “ blood 
is out of order," who are “ dyspeptic," whose “ food sits badly 
on their stomachs," and who “cannot find any thing that they 
can relish," and who therefore show theiuselves off as good 
examples of the Capricious Glutton. 
Unleavened Bread.—Bread, whether of wheat or corn, 
then, is preferable when not “ raised," but made of unbolted 
meal, stirred into warm water till thick enough to knead, and 
then worked with the hand and roller till all its particles have 
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in a “ quick oven.” Strange as it may seem, and contrary to 
the popular impression—and for this matter contrary to the 
medical notion as it is—this kind of bread is readily accepted 
by the most delicate stomach, and digested without suffering. 
Nothing shows in more marked degree the shamminess and 
quackery which exist in the so called Water Cures in the 
United States, than that on their tables can be found scrofu- 
lous beef-steak, plenty of common salt, butter early in the 
spring six months old, superfine flour bread raised with yeast, 
and soda biscuit, not a particle of unleavened “Graham 
bread.” I had a patient who after recovering his health last 
season from an illness of fifteen years, visited eight of the 
fashionable “ Cures,” and in none of them did he find any 
“ unleavened bread;” and he wrote me that in any of them 
he heard, during his stay of three days in each, from their 
patients more complaint from indigestion and suffering at the 
stomach, than from our patients during the six months in 
which he was a resident of “ Our Home.” 
Its Sweetness.—When once the nerves of taste are re- 
lieved from their slavery, by abstinence on the part of the 
eater from depraving substances, they begin to take on heal- 
thy action. The appetite becomes normal, nature asserts her 
sway, and instinct rises to its true level. That which is sweet 
then tastes sweet, and that which is sour tastes sour. The bit- 
ter is distinguishable, and the acrid leaves its effects behind. 
Under such conditions there is no preparation of wheat that 
for deliciousness can compare with unleavened bread, made as 
we make it in “Our Home.” This is not my testimony alone. 
It is that of our tobacco-chewers, rum-drinkers, tea-sipping, 
coffee-swilling, salted-down, meat-stuffed, drug-poisoned pa- 
tients and guests. Their voices are universally in favor of it 
as a bread-preparation over fine-flour-raised bread, whose chief 
merit in the estimation of those who eat it is, that it ranges 14 
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along side of their other articles of diet by having been pretty 
much spoiled in the process of cooking. 
FRUITS. 
I have as yet said nothing about fruits. Of them I have a 
high value, preferring them to vegetables. In fact I have a 
choice of articles—whether fruit or vegetable—in such as 
grow above ground, and of such, whether growing above or 
under ground, as grow on upland. This in part may be a fancy 
of mine, but in part, too, I think it involves a principle, for I 
have noticed that potatoes grown on hilly land and wheat grown 
on upland, serve the nutrient purposes of the human sys- 
tem better than when they are grown on intervale. The same 
may be said of pulpy fruits, having seeds and not stones. 
Apples, which with us are on our table at each meal just as 
long as we can get them, have our preference if grown on 
high land and in exposed situations. To show you the extent 
to which we eat fruit, I may say, that beside all the ripe sub- 
acid fruits, such as berries, fresh and dried, cherries, peaches, 
pears, plums, fresh and dried, which we wanted, we have in 
the last twelve months, at Our Home, eaten nearly 1900 bush- 
els of green apples, and two tons of dried apples. It is not 
uncommon to have our patients on their arrival tell us that 
they have not for years been able to eat any fruit—it disturbs 
them so. They can eat beef steak, mutton steak, a little 
broiled mackerel or shad, with a bit of toast and a little weak 
tea—laying emphasis on the “weak,” but an apple, it sours 
and inflates, and distends and disturbs stomach, head, heart 
and heels. And their kind of diet, which they have denomi- 
nated “ tonic,” and the conditions of their systems begotten 
under its use, which they have designated “ bracing,” the 
poor sufferers have been led to believe—till the delusion died 
by its own demerits — to be promotive of health. Three HOW PEOPLE KILL THEMSELVES BY EATING. 
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months’ residence with us changes this state of things entirely. 
They can eat with impunity any article put on the table, pro- 
vided they do not eat too much. And this brings me to my 
second general head. 
2. We Eat too much. 
When it is remembered what kinds of food our people eat, 
and one observes how much they eat, he will have no reason 
to question their gluttony from this point of view. Honeyed 
words will not answer here. The evil is too great for cure, 
unless a shock can be given to the moral sense of Christians. 
Men of the world are too far gone already, for you or me to 
hope for their recovery by any uprising sense of the degrada- 
tion which is theirs from their gluttonous habits 
One morning as I sat in my room writing, I heard one of 
our carpenters say,— 
“ I suppose I could eat twelve meals a day.” 
“ So could I,” replied another, “ I could eat all the time if 
I had a mind to.” 
“ How often do you eat ?” 
“ 0 ! three or four times a day; but I eat too much.” 
“ So do I; and I believe that nine-tenths of the people eat 
more than is good for them. I know I do, but how can I help 
it. One does not like to quit till he is full.” 
This colloquy tells the whole story, and its truth embraces a 
very great majority of our entire population. They are glut- 
tons—living to eat. Eating is an end, not a means of life. 
Around the table they circulate like satellites around the sun. 
The morning, mid-day and evening meals are occasions in 
which pure animalism is indulged. The opportunities pre- 
sented at these hours for interchange of the affections and 
such comparisons of thought as would result in mutual good, 
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only because they offer facilities for gluttonous eating. Said a 
distinguished Allopathic Physician to me, “I am 66 years old; 
I have eaten food enough to have answered my wants for 100 
years; I have been a glutton all my days, and yet I am called 
a small eater, and compared with most persons I am. 'Tis a 
fearful sin—this of over eating. I can easily see why Paul 
included it among the vices or sinful habits which keep us 
from inhabiting the Kingdom of God.” What this gentleman 
said of .iiimself is without doubt true of most of us : we cau 
eat at least one-third more than is needful, and in the case of 
many of us, more than our stomachs can digest, or our assimi- 
lative organs can appropriate. A frightful brood of diseases 
is therefore the consequence not only, but our appetites grow 
by what they feed on, till at last Gluttony—ok morbid desire 
for food—comes to take possession of us, and eating is the 
object of life. I can think of no person more needing pity 
than he is who can set about no work, address himself to no 
great achievement, without associating in his own mind with 
its rewards the delights which the Glutton prizes. It is a sad 
drawback on one’s usefulness, dignity of character, and hu- 
manity, leaving out of the question altogether his piety. 
3. He Eat at Improper Times. 
Society with us has decided, that the body uses up its par- 
ticles of matter so frequently and efficiently, that supplies or 
relays of food are needed every six hours during the day. 
Thus we breakfast at 0 A. M., dine at 12 M., and sup at 6 P. 
M. There can be no doubt that this is quite as often as per- 
sons ought to eat, and I am of opinion that with most persons 
it is oftener, having satisfied myself that two meals a day is 
promotive of thorougher assimilation and greater strength 
than more frequent introductions of food into the stomach. 
But as I have given my views more at length on this point in HOW PEOPLE KILL THEMSELVES BY EATING. 
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my tract on Dyspepsia, I leave it to say, that the habit of 
Eating Between Meals, so common to our people, is cal- 
culated to add largely to the bringing of Gluttons to birth. 
Outside of that class of population called Health Reformers, 
I do not know where those are to be found who do not indulge 
—and if they have children, allow them to indulge—-in this 
very censurable practice. I say censurable, for it should not 
be forgotten that the stomach has to go through all the vital 
actions to digest a small bulk of food that it has to dispose of a 
full meal. And, that as it is a muscular viscus, it gets tired as 
any other muscular portion of the body does. Besides, by 
frequently partaking of food, one’s desire comes to be in a 
ratio disproportionate to the necessities of the system for it, 
and thus an abnormal relation is established, the appetite 
clamoring for gratification all the whil$, and the stomach pro- 
testing against the outrage, till at length the latter gives way, 
and the wretched debauchee finds himself walking about, the 
victim of his own folly—a person with hunger gnawing inces- 
santly at his vitals, crying “ give ! give !” and his stomach as 
vociferously shouting out its inability to dispose of food if 
eaten. ’Tis then that hell is lifted up to meet him at his com- 
ing, and becomes incarnate in him. ’Tis then that the lusts 
of the flesh run riotous races in his veins. ’Tis then that his 
nerves become telegraphic lines for the use of the passions, 
and with eyes that are bloodshot he sees why a glutton, no 
more than a drunkard, can hold communion with God. 
The Effects of Gluttony. 
In considering the effects of the almost universal debauch- 
ery of our people in the matter of eating, I propose to con- 
sider, 
1. Its effects on the body. 
2. On the mind. 
3. On the heart. 18 
the gluttony plague : or, 
(1.) ITS BODILY EFFECTS. 
It destroys health. In the case of the glutton, this results 
from the obstructions which his orer-eating haH thrown in the 
way of Nature in her management of his physical structure, 
thus compelling her to abnormal manifestations. Now, undor 
this view, let us see how many diseases may be directly charge- 
able to gluttony. 
I will begin with the Head. 
Nervous headache, sick headache, sun headache, sun-stroke, 
never was a man who had sun-stroke who was not a 
glutton—rush of blood to the head, apoplexy—there never 
was a man who had a stroke of apoplexy who was not a de- 
bauchee in his diet, unless such person had received contusion, 
—sore eyes—oftener than otherwise originating in errors of diet 
—deafness, neuralgia of the face, originating in nine times out 
of ten in chronic inflammation of the nerves of the stomach, 
—decayed teeth, catarrh of the nostrils, of the back passages 
of the nose, and top of the throat. 
Throat, Lungs, Chest and Abdomen.—Bronchitis, en- 
largement of the tonsils, ulceration of the back passages of 
the throat, asthma, dry, hacking cough, humid cough, pain 
between the shoulders, pain under the right shoulder, under 
the left shoulder, difficult respiration yet not asthmatic, casting 
up of food, sense of faintness—“goneness”—nausea, vomiting 
and common cholic, congestion of the liver, induration and 
enlargement of the liver, inflammation of the liver ending in 
abscess, engorgement of the spleen with enlargement of it, 
costiveness, piles, diarrhea, dysentery, excessive secretion of 
urine, inflammation of the kidneys, irritation of the neck of 
the bladder, voiding of bloody urine, stricture of the bladder 
and urethra, spermatorrhea, leucorrhea, rheumatism, skin dis- 
eases of all kinds, cold hands, cold feet, ulcers on the legs, HOW PEOPLE KILL THEMSELVES BY EATING. 
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fever sores, hip disease, gout, marasmus, billious fever, remit- 
tent fever, spotted fever, typhus fever, typhoid fever, and ague 
and fever,—the latter of which no doctor living can tell why 
a human being should have it more than a horse, except for 
causes in his methods of living that predispose him thereto, 
while in the case of the horse they are wanting. Under such 
a statement as this, can any of you see a natural connection 
between dietetics, disease, drug shops, doctors and death ? If 
he cannot, he needs to have his spiritual sight quickened. If 
he can, he gets a faint glimpse of the havoc that Gluttony 
makes. 
(2.) IT DESTKOYS THE STRENGTH OF THE BODY. 
A legitimate effect of gluttony in man is, as it is in a beast, 
to be seen in increase of adipose or fatty tissue. By the mil- 
lion this is taken as proof positive of strength and health, and 
the want of it as evidence of illness or feebleness of body. 
The converse of this is true. Fat humans, like very fat 
horses, are inferior where strength and endurance are re- 
quired. It is muscle that gives strength, and muscle is lean. 
When you hear a gross, fat, bull-dog-cheeked man talking to 
a lean, spare man about his wanting strength, you may rest 
assured that, other things being equal, the difference in their 
fatness is in the lean man’s favor. It is one—and not a slight 
one—of the evidences of the superiority of wheat meal over 
any articles commonly used as food, that it makes when eaten 
more muscle than fat. In this respect it is far better than 
indian corn, and greatly superior to flesh meat for food to all 
animals to which size and vigor of muscle are essential. Prize 
fighters are slowly coming to understand this view, and more 
bread and less meat is eaten by thsir champions. Gluttony 
defeats all this, for 
(a) Its votaries eat largely of oily food. 20 
THE GLUTTONY PLAGUE: OR, 
(b) They eat too much, and so expend vital force uselessly 
or wastefully. 
(c) They grow lazy, and so lack strength. 
(d) They are proverbial for a silly sort of good nature, for 
stupidity and sloth. 
3. IT RUINS THE SPECIAL SENSES 
The wickedness of being a glutton is no where more mani- 
fest than in the depravation of the special senses, which glut- 
tony insures. In their original purity and acuteness they are 
wonderful means of enlightenment as well as of enjoyment to 
man. 
The Eye.—What a window to let in heaven’s light and the 
beauties of nature. Yet the glutton spoils it. The partially 
blind are almost all of them made so by gluttonous eating and 
drinking. 
The Ear.—How God has connected Himself with the soul 
by means of it. Melodies that melt the heart and make it 
throb to truth are ours by the ear. Yet a majority of the 
deaf are so by reason of their gluttony. 
The Nose.—What delicate sensibilities it has,—Odors that 
come from 
“ bed# of scented violets,” 
the perfume of the made hay, the aroma of spices, the thou- 
sand-and-one “sweets" that come to us as if they were borne 
on the gales of 
“ Araby the blest," 
all are ours only through the nostrils—yet the glutton has a 
cold, or catarrh, or polypus, or has killed his sense of smell by HOW PEOPLE KILL THEMSELVES BY EATING. 
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snuff, or the smoke of tobacco, and so lives for years bereft of 
one of the means of pleasure and improvement. 
The Tongue.—In it, and the cavity in which it lies, resides 
the sense of taste. But how few are in possession of this 
sense in an unperverted degree. Its strength lies in its sim- 
plicity and directness of action, and, as the glutton educates 
it, it is as false aud depraved as one can well imagine a special 
sense can become. 
The Sense of Touch.—As a means of improvement and 
cultivation it is wonderful. Yet the glutton deadens it till it 
is of little use ; and as almost all the cases of paralysis are the 
result of dietetic debauch, in such instances he has deprived 
himself of all use of this magnificent gift of God to man. 
Now, if perversion of either of the senses places the loser 
in undesirable conditions, what must be said of him who 
degrades them all, as is largely done with our people in and 
through their gastronomic propensities ? The simplest state- 
ment involves so heavy censure as to make one hesitate to 
utter it. 
4. IT CREATES AN APPETITE FOR ALCOHOLIC 
DRINKS, TOBACCO, AND NARCOTIC DRUGS AND 
BEVERAGES. 
I have been long impressed with the view that in endeavor- 
ing to check drunkenness the Temperance Reformers were 
working unphilosophically and so unsuccessfully. For drunk- 
enness with all peoples—and with us especially—is a secondary 
evil. It is born of Gluttony.There is more than 
hap-hazard allocation in the way in which our Saviour brings 
out the charges which the Pharisees preferred against him. 
“ The son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say 22 
THE GLUTTONY PLAGUE: OR, 
behold a gluttonous man and a wine-bibber.” The Phari- 
sees understood the matter. They saw that over-eating gave 
rise to over-drinking, aud so they categorically placed them. 
And this is their natural relation. The bars in our taverns 
and hotels are fed from their tables. Their boarders and 
guests eat stimulating food in excess, and in consequence drink 
stimulating drinks. The drinking, underground saloon always 
has its forerunner and aid—the eating “ restaurant.” And if 
Philanthropists, Christians and Temperance Men will only 
give the matter proper thought, they will find that in 995 
cases out of 1000 those who habitually frequent the saloon, 
drink after they have eaten. 
They always have their riot after their feast. This is clear 
enough, in respect to the habits of English and German glut- 
tons. From time immemorial the English have drank their 
liquors after the dinner has been served, and the ladies have 
arisen. The same is true of the Germans who drink their 
beer. And in the United States, at our “ private parties,” 
“ St. George,” “ St. Andrew,” “ St. Patrick,” and “ New Eng- 
land Societies,” the wine cup passes only after the gluttons 
gathered together have eaten all they can. And at the minis- 
tration of the Sacrament—I cite this only to show the natural 
relation which eating and drinking hold to each other—the 
bread is uniformly distributed first. The reversal of this 
order of procedure cannot be witnessed in Christendom. It is 
safe to say, then, that we make our drunkards by first making 
them gluttons. Yet how few think of it. The question is 
like a sealed book to Christians. Ministers of the Gospel are 
not awake to the universal subjection of the people to de- 
bauches daily made at their tables, nor to the horrible enor- 
mity of the sin committed by invoking the Divine blessing on 
such swinish orgies as our people commit at their meals. 
Along with the appetite for drinking created by the passive 
inflammation of the mucous membranes of the stomach, in- HOW PEOPLE KILL THEMSELVES BY EATING. 
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duced by gluttonous indulgence, comes the desire for narcotics. 
The thing stands thus : 
(a) Highly seasoned food and condiments create a morbid 
appetite for food. 
(b) This, when gratified, calls for alcoholic stimuli. 
(c) The reaction from these sets the nerves of taste all in 
a thrill of excitement that demands a sedative. This is found 
under various forms. With our male population chiefly in 
tobacco, tea and coffee—with our female population in opium 
in its various preparations, and tea and coffee. After thirty 
years of unparalleled labor by the friends of temperance, the 
nation has not made a perceptible progress. Nor will it in 
time to come, till Christianity shall have a revival of her 
ancient simplicities, and insist that human beings shall eat as 
well as drink to the glory of God. 
(2.) ITS EFFECTS ON THE MENTAL FACULTIES. 
The deterioration and depravation of mind which we suffer 
from our eating and drinking habits, are not easily measured. 
1 propose to consider this point under two aspects. 
1. The quality of our mental power. 
2. The degree or extent to which we possess it. 
There is such a thing as a perverse mind—and for my pur- 
pose it matters much how it comes to exist. I do not deny, 
(for I do not know to the contrary,) that in and of itself it 
may be perverse. This much I do know, and to this point I 
call your attention, that ill, sickly, diseased or depraved condi- 
tions of the body do, in a large measure, effect and determine 
our quality of thought, and our quality of thought determines 
our quality of purpose in life. Now I am prepared to main- 
tain, that while mind may exist independently of the body, 
while in the body it is subject on general principles to the 
laws which establish the connection, and of these there is no 24 
TIIK GLUTTONY PLAGUE: OR, 
one more exact or of greater significance than this, which 
asserts that the mental faculties shall feel the rejiex influence 
of the conditions of the body. 
Admitting this, the quality of thought one shows will be 
usually measured without difficulty, by getting at his bodily 
state. Abnormal conditions of body type out corresponding 
mental states. One could have well determined A PRIORI what 
poetry Byron would write could he have been familiar with the 
fact that as soon as weaning was over he was begun to be edu- 
cated A glutton. And so conversely: one can readily see 
by reading him that he must have been gluttonous and a 
wine-bibber, a heathen man and a publican. Dietetics, then, 
have much to do with thf ciiaractkr of the thoughts born 
within us. If you wish to become familiar with men and 
women whose minds are filled with thoughts that are low, 
impure or obscene—or, that having in them the qualities of 
brilliancy and depth, are tainted so with selfishness and intol- 
erance as to smell putrescent—if you wish to find philosophy 
which is narrow, ideas that are mingled with passion, actions 
whose vigor is spoiled by indecision and uncertainty of aim, 
lives whose whole course have been barren of Divine illumina- 
tion, you have but to pass into society, and from its members 
whose staples of food and drink and medicines are flesh meats 
and their condiments, tea, coffee, alcoholic beverages, tobacco, 
opium and drug-poisons, select those whose experience has 
been the most opportune, and you will find them loyal subjects 
of the Glutton-God—ripe scholars in the devil’s school. 
(3.) IT BENUMBS THE HEART. 
Of all the causes that enslave our spiritual sensibilities and 
deaden the affections, none is more powerful than gluttony. 
And none is more active with our people. It is not surprising 
to me that Christians are so cold, formal, and unimpuis ve as HOW PEOPLE KILL THEMSELVES BY EATING. 
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they are. It is obvious why they should be so. They are so 
gross in bodily appetite, and so indulgent in the sphere of the 
passions, that the descent of the Holy Spirit is impossible 
under its ordinary plan of approach to the human soul. A 
vast majority of Christians, simply because of bad habits in 
physical life, go for years with no glowing light from the 
Divine finding its way into their souls. They live in the 
shadow of that light altogether. Its rays reach them when 
their healing is spent. They are conscious of this, and they 
seek relief in rites and observances, and a quarterly recast of 
their theological belief. Some of them get so far away as to 
mistake their creed for their Christ, and to rest their hope 
that their correctness of belief will answer in lieu of purity 
of life. But their efforts are of no avail. They are dying 
AT the heart. And while the Saviour pities, He is power- 
less. They have a darling habit which they have kept back 
—a part of them which they have not made over—and this it 
is which eats like canker into their souls and makes them spir- 
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whom the Christians of the United States should be induced 
to eat and drink and dress to the glory of God, than to set 
in motion any plan for the world’s redemption of which I can 
now imagine. It is a settled point with me, that the great 
indifference to physical laws, or as we term them, the Laws of 
Life, which the redeemed show, the impunity with which they 
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