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by Aaron David Bernstein

METEOROLOGY.

• • [ Something about the weather.] 69
  • [ Of the weather in summer and winter.] 73
  • [ The currents of air and the weather.] 75
  • [ The firm rules of meteorology.] 78
  • [ Air and water in their relations to weather.] 81
  • [ Fog, clouds, rain, and snow.] 84
  • [ How heat in the air becomes latent, and how it gets free again.] 87
  • [ Latent heat produces cold, free heat produces warmth.] 90
  • [ Rules about the weather, and disturbances of the same.] 93
  • [ The changeableness of the weather with regard to our geographical position.] 96
  • [ About the difficulty and possibility of determining the weather.] 98
  • [ The false-weather prophets.] 101
  • [ Has the moon influence upon the weather?] 103

[PART VII.]

OUR ARTICLES OF FOOD.

• • [ The rapid renewal of the blood is an advantage.] 109
  • [ Digestion.] 112
  • [ Coffee.] 114
  • [ Coffee as a medicine.] 117
  • [ Usefulness and hurtfulness of coffee.] 119
  • [ Breakfast.] 121
  • [ Liquor.] 125
  • [ Injuriousness of drinking liquor.] 131
  • [ The poor and the liquor.] 134
  • [ The consequences of intemperance, and its prevention.] 137
  • [ Dinner.] 140
  • [ Necessity for variety in food.] 143
  • [ Broth.] 146
  • [ What is best to be put into soup.] 149
  • [ Leguminous vegetables.] 152
  • [ Meat and vegetables.] 155
  • [ The nap after dinner.] 158
  • [ Water and beer.] 161
  • [ The supper.] 164

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PART I.