This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER X. CASEIN FOODSTUFFS. It is a well-known fact that animal albumen plays a very important part in the food of man; and it may also be accepted as proved that man should take one-third of his requirements of albuminoids in the form of animal food. In this connection, meat is the principal and almost sole form of nourishment possible, since eggs, milk and milk products cannot have the same importance for dwellers in towns, soldiers and sailors, hospital patients, prisoners, and so forth, as they have for country people. Besides, meat is the only form of animal food that man can continue to take with pleasure in sufficient quantity to satisfy the demands of the body for albumen; whereas, in the case of milk, the consumption of the necessary quantity sooner or later causes a distaste for the article with most people. Now, in order to provide meat supplies at a price which would enable the bulk of the populace to purchase a sufficiency for the purposes aforesaid, it is not enough to merely have recourse to cheap imported meat. On the one hand, there is the difficulty of excluding disease, and, on the other, the alterations to which the meat is exposed (drying, pickling, smoking, etc.) in order to make it keep, frequently affect its flavour and digesti...