Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1885-07-24
The Cause Of Dyspepsia.

Chicago Herald.
''Oh. I'm used up with the dyspep-
sia," declared "A sour-visaged, discon-
tented looking man of an acquaint
ance rs he leaned against bar chew
ing a nutritious toothpick. lin only
one of thousands he added, with a
heavy sigh, 'who have been made dys-
peptics in American by the adultera-
tons OF food. No one can talk climate
or cookery To me. II is the adultcra-
ton OF food that creates dyspepsia.
Why blc-s YOU. the American cooking
is on the average the best in the world,
but it il almost impossible to get any
thing pure % cook.
"Alum j. mixed with yeast powder,
baking powders are adulterated. with
chalk and sugar, syrup and honey are
extensively doctorcd. The first three
are adulterItcd with glucose, which is
manufactured by treating starch or
woody fiber. with Sulphuric acid. 1t is
never advertised glucose isn't-I can
tell you, and ii isn't easy To find. \
large dealer told me the other day
that he didn't believe he'd had any
genuine molaSses in his store for years.
| never buy any honey unless | get it
from an intimate friend MIX is weak
ened with water and colored with
preparation made in the east. 1t is not
generally known, either. but it is
fact, that the milk of farrow cows is
unfit for food. being filled with an
efiete cXcretory mttter. And butter
Taught is not only adulterated. but
counterfcited. Fat cheese is made
from skinned milk mixed with lard
and tallow so skillfully a to defy de-
lection. | was ut an exhibit of butter
and cheese in the state of New York
awhile ago where the first prize was
awarded to "A cheese which the makers,
with pride mind you, with pride af
terward affirmed TO be a manufactured
article. a
"Do YOU know what gluten meal is?
Mop Well, YOU see the advertisement,
but YOU don't see glucose. 1t is a
product incident TO the manufacture
of glucose. Fine fruit llavors what
do YOU think they are largely made
from? All. the chemist has wonderful
resources. They are made TO n great
extent from rotten cheese, fusil oil,
sulphuric acid, ether and other things
quite as injurious TO the delicate Innings
of the stomach. Many of the soda
water syrups, CONNECTIONS and jellies
are favored with such stuff OF course
n few persons use genuine fruit tlavors.
The sourness of lemon syrup and lime
juice strengthened with sulphuric acid.
Candy is composed largely of glucose
and flour. Mighty little pure sugar
goes into it. Manufacturers claim the
substitute which is made from corn is
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ted with various substances. Some
terra alba is used and the coloring
matter is often highly Objectionable.
Tea is adulterated with willow,
oak, birch, elm, and other leaves, and
spent tea leaves; also, with poisonous
colorings. Ground coffee sold in
packages is often quite a counterfeit.
Among the other coffee adulterat;ons
besides the old standby, chicory. are
dried liver. beans. peas, all kinds of
grain, tan bark and sawdust. Spices
are mixed largely with inert sub
stances, and then injurious matter has
to be added to give them fictitious
strength.
"Thirty-two deadly poisons are
known to be used in the adulteration
of wines, and whisky is even treated
worse. The popular lager beer is
adulterated also To an alarming extent,
/ for it is drank freely by so many UNI
! der belief that it i healthful and can
not be meddlcd with as are alcoholic
beverages. Even drugs the very
I drugs uSel for authorizations are
| themselves adulterated- Paris green,
for instance. being one.
1T is impossible to estimate the
amount of poison people take into their
systems daily.