A brief guide to the Food Collection

There are many methods by which such a Collection might be arranged; but the Chemical Composition of Food has recently been discovered to have so close a connexion with its action on the system, that it has been deemed advisable to follow a Chemical arrangement.  All food is found to be composed of the same materials or elements as the Human Body.  The necessity of the supply of food from day to day depends on the fact, that the elements of the human body are daily wasted by the processes of life.  As a fire cannot burn without a supply of fuel, neither can the human body live without its daily supplies of food.