staminal

Updated: July 13, 2025

Restricted to such food the carnivora cannot maintain life; nor can man, being half carnivorous, if laboriously employed, long preserve health and strength on food of such character.... Food, to be at once sustaining to the labourer, and preventive of disease, must have bulk must possess solidity must not be rapidly digestible, and must contain, in varied proportions, all the staminal ingredients of nutriment."

John O'Rourke - The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) : With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines