The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1888-03-31
MILK WITH MEAT.
These Two Articles Of Diet Should Not
Be Used Together.
New York Herald.

"Thou shalt not mix the lambs
flesh with the mothers milk"
From time immemorial no COM
mandment has had more weight
among orthodox Hebrews than this
one, which ordains that they sha.l
not use meat and milk at the same
meal. Unlike many other laws re-
garding diet, it is claimed that this
one is based on the laws of health
and that those who rigidly observe
it run far less risk of illness than
those who eat meat and drink milk
whenever the fancy seizes them. A
thorough discussion of the subject
took place recently, which was at
tended by several prominent He
brews, and, among others, by a
practical chemist of some thirty
five years experience. Among the
remarks which he made, according
to a well-known Hebrew journal of
this city, are the following: "The
rabbis were not such fools as our
modern progressionists would have
us believe them to have been.
have examined under a power
full microscope fibre of meat and
q drop of milk the former appered
to be mass of dead matter, the
latter white sea. | took the same
fibre of meat and immersed it in a
glass of milk, when instantaneously
the fibre of meat was swimming and
the whole glass of milk teeming
with myriads of animalculn. Any
medical gentleman will tell you
that a glass of milk taken after a
diet of meat produces what are
commonly known as yeast germs,
and that a compliance with the di-
citing laws Of the Hebrews is not
alone productive of good health,
but tends to ward off infectious
diseases.
Naturally such novel statement
surprised many who heard it, and
a general desire was manifested to
find out if the union of milk and
meat always produced similar start
ling results. The Herald being ap-
pealed to for information, a areporter
was instructed yesterday to find out
what physicians and chemists
would have to say on the subject.
1t was not an easy matter on
which to get satisfactory informa-
ton. Some physicians said that
they could not express an opinion
until they had made certain exper-
iments. Others admitted readily
that it was foolish for anyone to
load his or her stomach with meat
and milk at the same time, but
laughed at the idea that comming-
ling of meat and milk necessarily
let loose myriads of animalcula,
and thus turned the human stom-
ach for the time being into den
of putrefaction; and still others
maintained that milk was good at
any time and under all circumstan-
ces, and that a man who liked it at
his dinner and yet eschewed it's use
must be either a rigidly orthodox
Hebrew or a hopeless hypochon'
driac.
| Professor Bedford of the Phar'
maceutical Record of No. 5 Beck.
man street, is one of those who be-
lieve that milk can be safely taken
at any time. When he was told OF
the experiment which the Hebrew
chemist had made, he said: "Well
never made such an experiment,
and so, of course, / am not able to
speak with absolute certainty as to
the effect of meat on milk. But |
do say that the use of milk as an
article of diet has been increasing
year by year, and that physicians
have come to put implicit faith IN
it's strengthening powers. BY what
rules as regards diet the Hebrews
are governed have no idea, and
all I know is that this is the first
time that l have heard of an attack
being made on milk on such strange
grounds. Personally, l should ad-
wise any man who likes a glass OF
two of milk at his dinner to take
them by all means, and l think II
is pretty safe to say that he would
not hurt himself by indulglng his
natural craving. But, as l said be-
fore, l cannot speak with authority
as have not made any experiments
| in this direction"
No one could be found who had
made any such experiments, but
one or two were seen who insisted
that no such experiment could DC
successful, unless either the meat
was a little stale or the milk little
sour. Their theory is that SO lone
as the milk and meat a:e entirely
fresh and pure, no evil results car
possiblv follow from their contact
aAs we'll claim" they say, thai
persons who eat meat on Frlda,,
are injuring their health as that
those who use milk and meat TO-
gether are in danger of catching IN
fectious diseases"
All the same, orthodox Hebrews
are quite as averse to commlngllns
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