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errors intact, save for minor amendments to punctuation, capitalisation
and word spacing. The author was prone to misquoting poetry, the
typesetter was apparently not being paid enough to ensure accuracy, and
it doesn’t seem a proofreader was asked to participate at all. The best
laid schemes o’ “mince” and men have indeed gone aft agley.




                                OAT MEAL
                                  THE
                               War Winner

                             [Illustration]

                                   BY
                           J. R. Grieve, M. D.
                        Acting Assistant Surgeon
                            U. S. Army, 1865

              Copyright Applied for.      Price Ten Cents.




“OATMEAL”

BEING GLIMPSES AN REMINISENCES OF SCOTLAND AND ITS PEOPLE.

By J. R. Grieve, M.D.




INTRODUCTION.


At the present time when every one is being urged to bend every energy
toward the conservation of food supplies, it is surprising to me that so
little has been written in behalf of the extraordinary value of oatmeal
as a diet on which people can live and continue more healthy than on any
other cereal in the world.

I wish to present =facts=, not =theories=. I wish to tell of what I know
personally on this subject. I have not consulted any of the laboratories
of research or taken for granted any data from the many-published
statistics of individual food sufficiency for sustaining life, but I have
only taken =facts= and invite my readers to form their own conclusions.

My father was a successful farmer in Perthshire, Scotland, and employed
quite a number of ploughmen. His men were always big str