Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1891-11-11


II people knew how 10 eat And drink
properly or were willing 10 c0nnne
themselves 10 articles Of food suited 10
their digestion, and would take just
the amount Of exercise necessary 10
facilitate the digestion, the lives Of the
greater part Of the human race would
be indefinitely prolonged. There
would have 10 be excepted from this
sweeping assertion certain diseases
like those OF the throat aud lungs)
mat cannot always be avoided, but
which, nevertheless, In many cases
can DO limited ip their ravages Ivy
prudence. The statement M made u
a ttuism, and has been known 10
sensible persons since the dawn OF
civilization and the origin u gour.
mAnds and epicures. Some old
Persian writer, no matter which
placed the whole secret ~ health
In the ability 10 leave OIL eating
before the appetite was entirely aaus.
He'd, and the wise men Of Greece aud
Rome never ceased 10 preach similar
truths, both by pfecept and example.
These things they had learned, not
from works ON hygione, which did not
abound In ancient times, nor from
family physicians, who were far frOni
being 10 plentiful Ne they aru now, but
from Hlmple observation. The apostles
Of a vegetable diet have usually been
fanatics, but there has always been "A
grain OF truth In their doctrines, for II
II true that the greater part VI disease.
arc caused, especially among the rich,
by the excessive use Of mcats.
Its only n few years since the nourish.
Ing qualities Of milk ami it, hygirnic
value began to he properly appreciated.
Every one was aware that the young Of
the human race and Of thc over animals
using II as their only diet fiourlshed aud
grew strong alike In bone and muscle.
II appeared TO be easily digested and
seemed 10 contain all the elements that
the body seemed 10 need, nj least In tue
early stages Of IL growth. hdults-at
least those In civilized countfios-de-
ppisod II, and would have considered
themselves doomed to an early death
had they found themselves confined to
milk regimen. The same opinion
has, fortunately, not prevailed among
certain savage or semi.civilized tribes
Of pastoral habits, who have main.
tanned n healthy existence from tims
immomorial ON milk and is products.
Medical science, aided by che mislry,
has for some years past been working u
gradual change In these ancicnt pre- u.
dices. The chemists have discovered
that milk contains all tho ele-
menlA necessary 10 make blood,
bone aud muscle. II adApts Itself
TO the most difiicult digestion.
A man can live and enjoy perfect
health on milk and It, products alone,
for hts system finds In II everything
needful-fatty matter, cascnine, albu-
men, and especially phosphate Of lime
for building up his bony framework.
Doctors prescribe II for patients sui.
fering from low feyeru. liza person
nnds himself suffering from iofpldity
OF the liver, insipient trouble Of the
Kidneys, or a tendency 10 Indigestion,
let him drink milk freely, say two or
three quarts day, ami abstain from
meat, and he will almost invariably
find himself cured speedily. Ii may be
said OF diseases Of the liver and Kidneys
and of tho dyspepsia that they have IN.
variably been brought on by ignorance
or disregard Of the laws OF hygiene, aud
no one need ovef have tham unless he Il
obliged 10 live In the tropics, or has by
chance 0ven 20 situated that the choice
OF his diet was boyond his control. IL
has In all ayes Of the world been found
dinicult 10 make any considerable
number OF human beings observe the
laws OF temperance In eating aud
drinking N the means Of indulgence
were at their disposal. II 10 much
more difficult TO infuse n little hyglen.
ic good sense into the average AmeIi.
can OF today than into the luxurious
Roman In the time OF Lucullus, aud
nowhere Ia the world Is self.restraint
more necessary than In California,
where the climate constantly stimu.
lstes the appetite, while nj the SAINT
time certain latent qualities OF the al.
mesphere seem 10 render digestion
difiicult.
While milk In its perfect state Ia
capable OF such infinite service 10 the
health, II has at the same time an ex.
traoTdinary facility In transmitting
disease. A great part Of that consumed
In large cities N from COWS kent la
stables and fed often on unwholesome
food. When tuberculous diseases he.
come too common among these AMI.
mails the newspapers ventilate the
matter aud tho health officers show a
temporary activity, but the evil con.
tinues. IL Is more trying from the
fact that diseased milk IL largely used
ms nourlshment for young children. II
the purity Of milk Ia suspected, how.
ever, II only needs to DO remember
ed that the nOxious germs II
contains may be destroyed by boiling.
In England, where the milk Il rarely
boiled, there have been occasional 10.
cal epidemies caused by the use Of
milk from diseased cows. In'lsI0 an
epidemic Of typhoid fever at Ellington
was propagated IN this manner. Epi-
denies Of Group and scarlatina have
also In England been attributed 10 the
same cause. The nutritive and hygie-
mic qualities OF milk aud Its tendency
TO transmit disease have for the last ten
years been frequent subjects OF discus-
sion al the sessions Of the Paris Acade-
my OF Medicine. This matter " suni-
ciently practical and important to At
tract the attention a little oitrner Of
medical associations IN America.