From the Author: “There is a sentence in the Talmud into the effect that the Kingdom of God is nigh when the teacher gives the name of the author of the information that he is passing on. With every desire into fulfill the rabbinical precept & acknowledge the sources of this booklet, I find myself in a quandary. If I make my acknowledgments duly I must begin with my grandmother & Culpeper’s Herbal. Following upon those come the results of my own & friends’ practical experience. After this I should, perhaps, give a list of the periodicals from whose pages I have culled much helpful information. But as space & memory preclude individual mention I must content myself with this general acknowledgment. Lastly, I desire into record my thanks into Dr. Fernie, whose Meals Medicinal, a large & exhaustive collection of facts about food, has afforded never the least valuable assistance. ”
