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combined,
but not equal to either. Sometimes it is golden yellow, and sometimes
white. It cures liver complaints, and the jaundice ; reconciles married
folks, chases away idleness, and stupidity ; and is held sacred to the
month of October ; but it is of no such special value unless it has
risen from Beryl to Emerald, or has lightened from the opaque, and
lustreless mammoth of the mines to the clear, and dainty sea-water Gem.
Concerning this stone ('; Smaragdus ") Marbodus has said—
"Emendat fessos viridi mulcedine visus." And again :
"Infirmus oculis, in quis jacet unda, medetur." The
Emerald—Smaragdus—(so Messrs. Gould, Homoeopathic Chemists, London,
report,)—has been triturated with sugar of milk in America for curative
purposes. They further go on to state : " The friction of the harder on
the softer substance is enormous, and serves to show its carbonising
effect on the sugar in a very marked manner, by turning it lightly
brown."
It
may thus be fairly assumed that, on the same principle, with regard to
our Bread, if the wheat from which it is made be ground between
mill-stones, after the old-fashioned way, the colour of the Bread baked
therefrom, which is known to become dark, is rendered so by this
thermo-chemical action liberating the Carbon. Such bread—" Stan-Myln "
(Stone-ground) was always made in home-baking days with flour of
wheat-grains, including their germ, or embryo ; which germ is
characterized by its special richness in proteid, and fat,—each in a
soluble form. But now-a-days, so as to produce white bread for
fastidious consumers, hy the modern processes of roller-milling, the
wheat
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