The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1880-04-20
RESULTS OF VIYISECTIoN
Interesting Experiments.
PROF. MOTT SHOWS HOW PEOPLE ARE
TAKING POISON IN THEIR DAILY FOOD
"A PROLIFIC SOURCE OF DYSPEPSIA

ie PROF. MOTT SHOWS HOW PEOPLE AR
le TAKING POISON IN THEIR DAILY FOOL
d "A PROLIFIC SOURCE OF DYsPEPsL
r SCIENTIFICALLY DEMONSTRATED.
= From the Ne10 York Tribune.
!, A series OF highly interesting ex
y periments with dogs has been lately
made by Prof. Mott, and in thu
L Scientific american of February 7tb
s q detailed account is givsn. The
q disclosures are go unpleasant snC
i startling, coming home, as they do, to
s every one, that we believe they
! should be given the greatest publicity.
t The effort DR.. Mott ia making tC
D purify our articles of kitchen use
= should receive the support of every
thinking man and woman. There has
/. been too much Indifference on
this subject-an Indifference that has
resulted in Americans earning the
3 title of "a race of dyspeptics. "
Poison, year after year, is introduced
into the stomach with criminal dis
regard to consequences that is apsll-
ing. II every purveyor OF demestio
: supplies viii carefully consider the
, result of DR.. Motifs experiments, as
detailed in the Scientific american,
one of the greatest, if not the great
est. OF these evils will be corrected.
DR.. Mott says: THE introduction
of alum 10 -four, for various puT-
poses, has been trick OF the baker
for the past 100years. Fortunately for
society, i!s introduction is limited
now to a few INSCRIPTIONS bakers.
In England, France and Germany it Is
an offense punishable by fine and i'm.
prisonment to use alum in any con.
nection with articles OF food. 1t
should be 80 in America"
The Royal Baking Powder Com
pany. of this city, long established
corporation, celebrated for the sbso-
lutte purity of their goods, some time
ago commenced q vigorous warfare
against many of their competitors who
were indulging in hurtful sdultera-
ten. The contest excited great in
terest in scientific circles, in which
Prof. Angel, DR.. Mott and other
leading lights took very prominent
part. The experiments OF DR. Mott
are result Of this discussion, and go
to prove conclusively that the most
dangerous adulteraticn that a com.
munity has to guard against is alum
In baking powder. In his paper, the
doctor says: It was with difficulty
[ found q suitable place to conduct
the experiments so that the animals
would not disturb the neighborhood
but, through the courtesy of the
commissioner of the dock department,
l secured a shed on their premises,
foot Of Sixteenth street and East
River. This shed l had completely
remodeled into a suitable house, hav.
ing the dimensions Of about 16x14x12
feet. Sixteen stalls were made in
side, having the dimensions Of
3!x2x23 feet. The bottom of each
compartment was covered with straw,
making a pleasant bed for the
dogs. l then secured sixteen dogs
from the pound, which we're all
carefully examined to see if they
were IN perfect state OF
health. None but the strong, healthy
dogs were selected. The breed, age,
food, color and weight of every dog
was carefully noted. Each dog was
then confined to stall and securely
chained, and they al! received a num-
Der, from 1 to 16. l commenced my
experiments on the 9Th OF September,
and finished December Sd. My assis-
tant was with the dogs from morning
until night, and never left the ami
mails without first secured boiling and
locking the dog-house. No stranger
was allowed to enter the house unac-
companied either by myself or my
assistant, snd the dogs never received
a monthiol of food or anything else
from any one except from my assis-
tsnt or myself l will now detail the
result of my experiments:
"Dog No. Breed of dog, coach.
Age, year. Health, perfect. Food.
bread and crackers. Color. spotted
black and white. Weight, 50 pouAds.
ITO this dog, on the morning OF
the 9th Of September, was given eight
biscuits at s 10 o'clock. The biscuits
were made by myself, as follows: One
quart siited -four. 20 teaspoons alum
baking powder. 2 cups water, table
spoon butter, % biscuits made, weigh
ing q ounces; time of baking, 20
minutes.
cat 11.3O, just three hours and
twenty minutes, the dog was taken
very sick, vomiting proiusely; his vim
and brightness of eye had departed,
and he trembled considerably in his
limbs"
Experiments were then made upon
TIRES dogs with biscuits containing
only ten teaspoons OF alum baking
powder. The result indicated that
some animals are more liable to yield
to the effects OF poisonous substances
than others are. When, or the other
hand, three other dogs we're fed with
biscuits made with pure cream of
tartar baking powder, no ill effects
we're experienced. They ate and ate
with an evident relish, day after day,
and even whined for more.
1t was next necessary to discover
what effect alum has on the solvent
power of the gastric juice. In order
to obtain aome pure gastric juice,
curious device was resoIted to. DIR.
Mott sent several dogs to Prof.
Arnold, Medical Department Of the
University of New York, who inserted
small metallic tube directly through
the skin and into the stomach OF each
one of them. when the dogs were in a
perfectly healthy condition. Prof.
Arnold sent to DR.. Mott some gastric
juice. which was produced by tickling
the lining of the stomach of the dogs
with a feather or glass rod, which
caused the gastric juice to flow out Of
the tube into a receptacle placed
underneath the dog to receive it.
DR.. Mott, aided by Prof. Schneider,
then began some experiments with
the four samples CT gastric juice,
which he had received from Prof.
Arnold, to discover the effect OF the
gastric Juice in which alum had been