Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1881-09-01
MIX rs an AIiment.

worth, of the Royal College of Physi-
clans, has recently put forth an import
ant paper in the Practitioner on the in
sufficient use OF milk as diet, and
shows the serious effect OF the neglect
of this indispensable nutrient on
national health. His warning is most
timely in an age when 30 many arti-
fetal yiands tend to destroy the appe.
tite for natures simple and normal
food supply. An eminent Psychologist
has pointed ont that while call other
matters appropriated by animals as
food exist for themselves or for the use
OF the vegetable or animal Of which
they form a constituent part, milk is
designed and prepared by nature cx-
pressly as food, and is the only mate
rial throughout the range Of organiza-
tion that is so prepared" Pure milk
in sufficient quantity is as necessary for
the body as pure air, but, as DIR. Duck
worth shows, it's use among those who
can afford to buy it has 30 decreased
even in the rural districts Of Great
Britain as to amount almost to milk
starvation. The minimum quantity re-
luired for the preservation Of health,
he calculates, is five quarts per diem TO
a family Of ten, and no. less than a
quart daily to each child. "If this, or
anything approaching this, were the
rule instead of the exception" he is
confident that the disease OF "rickets, &"
in its manifold phases, would be com
pletely banishcd from this country, and
a much higher standard Of health and
robustness would unquestionably pre-
vail.
II this conclusion holds at all true for
Great Britain il will hold much more 80
for thn United States. The humidity
Of the British isles insurcs n compare.
lively cluable climate, which makes
few heavy drains on the human system,
while in America, especially in the
West and Northwest, the ccasclcss and
extreme alterations Of temperature and
the aridity OF tho mosphcrc, which in
duccs a great waste Of tho body bv
evaporation, makes heavy demands upon
its store Of energy. That store can only
b. kept up by good nutrition. which
milk, combining as it does tho four
great staminal principles Of human
aliment, is so admirably fitted 20 snp-
ply. The prejudice which some enter.
tain against it, or the fancy tina, it dis.
agrees with them, may be removed in
many cases by adding TO the milk a
little carbonato Of soda or ~ limo water.
which will enhance it's digcstibility, and
when drunk for health purposoy in
large quanttins rsctia.i 10y adding
a little pepsin.
There can be no question that q large
number Of men and women, inclined 10
strumous and scrofulous habit, aurmia.
ca.arrh and consumption would be saved
from promat1ro docrepi;uic or wasting
disease by rosorting to a generous milk
diet. The increasing amount Of food
adulteration, through tho multiplication
of glucose aud oleomargArinc factories.
ought to have the effect OF popularizing
a diete;iC article which nature has pro.
yided AMI which cannot be tampcrci
with without exposing the fraud 10 easy
detection. Bone and sinew will not
make a nation, but the grave nutritional
loss growing ont OF the disusc Of this
elementary article Of food will ulti.
mately make hardy race a nation OF
dwaris, and it is well known that the
hardest race on the globe, the Kirghiz,
OF Central Asia, under tho most terrible
climatic extremes, have little else TO
live on but the milk OF their herds. .-
Ne- York Herald.