This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1886 Excerpt: ...be done; and when very severe exertion is expected the dietary must be still more liberal both as to force-liberators and force-producers. The capacity of the English soldier in war has always been looked upon as closely linked with his commissariat. Prowess and food go together. Of course the question of food can ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1886 Excerpt: ...be done; and when very severe exertion is expected the dietary must be still more liberal both as to force-liberators and force-producers. The capacity of the English soldier in war has always been looked upon as closely linked with his commissariat. Prowess and food go together. Of course the question of food can never be separated from that of clothing in cold climates, --the more that is required for the heat the less is left for force-production. The native of Arctic regions is clad in furs in order to reduce his heat loss, and so lessen the demand upon his fuel-stores. Even then he needs liberal quantities of fat, (the concentrated fuel-food). About twenty pounds of meat and blubber per diem is the ordinary allowance. And Sir John Eoss found that a large consumption of "Greenland food" was the road to success in frozen countries. "The quantity of food should be increased, be that as inconvenient as it may;" and of course to economise food by suitable clothing as far as possible. On the other hand the Englishman who will persist in the dietary and especially "the roast beef of old England" in tropical climates sooner or later falls ill with some hepatic trouble; because his liver cannot deal effectually or successfully with the albuminous food which he consumes far in excess of his body-wants. In Greenland he would hunger to death--be entirely burnt up "stock, lock, and barrel"--in two or three days on a dietary amply sufficient for the plains of Bengal, or the Guinea coast. And vice versa, a Greenland dietary would pall on the appetite in tropical climates. "There can be no doubt that a large proportion of the diseases of the digestive apparatus which are so fatal among European residents in India and other t...
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