From the Journal of Humauity..
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DEAR SIR, .ss cFse.

 In reply to the inquiry in your letter, remark, that long ago physicians were taught by observation and experience that newly baked bread requires much greater stomach power to effect its digestion than is necessary to accomplish the digestion of bread which is not new. This differ ence has been attributed to the greater ad- hesiveness ofthe hot bread, forming into a mass or masses less pcnetrable to the gas- tric juice. Whether this should be re- garded as full explanation there might perhaps be some doubt, but that certain chemical changes arc constantly going on in bread from the moment it is baked un- til it is unfit for use, and that, when day or two old, it is much more easily subject ed to the delicate chemistry of the stom- ach, than it is when just taken from the ov- en, there can be no doubt.

 A feeble stomach is always disturbed or depressed by hot bread, and headache. vertigo, and sometimes cramp, cholera and convulsions are caused by it. Those who are predisposed,, constitutionally or by their vocation, to dyspepsy, nay, every body, inasmuch as the preservation of health should be an object with every boz dy, ought to abstain from it. For although, in some cases, it may not, for a time, ape pear to do mischief, it is secretly under- mining the powers of the stomach, and dis- ease will some day make its appearance in form more aggravated or obstinate, than if the stomach had been put to less severe task.

 The business of bread making is gener- ally not enough attended to in our country. The yeast is too often not perfectly sweet, and when it has become sour, alkaline sub- stances, as salaraius, or pearlash or soda, do not restore it to its original fitness for the process of fermen,ing the dough. An other defect is, that the dough, when put into the oven, is frequently not enough or too much fermcnted, the consequence ot which is that the bread is rather clammy or sour. Another, and almost universal defect is, that the bread is not baked en- ough. The thickness of the loaf may bs too great for the heat of the oven, or the heat may be SO great as to burn or crisp the outside of the loaf before the inner parts are done.

 Hot bread should be banished from all our literary institutions; and 1.-the guardi- ans of these establishments were faithful to their trust, they would not only interdict it, but would take care that their students should be regularly furnished with well made bread.