Evening journal., 1892-11-29

AhoAeAhof H. ~ tthtks OF AADhhNf N ~
Says It is Full OF All sorts Of laings
and They are Liable TO be Carried Into
the Human Veins.
The war now beinr waged through
out Pennsylvania ID ,ne National Dairy
mems Protective Assori .tiua against the
manufacture and sale vi oleomargarine
has developed another phase Of the evil
incident TO the manufacture and con
sumption Of the product
It's indigestibility, its insolubility
when made from animal fats, its liability
to carry germs Of disease into the human
system and the probability Of its con
tanning, when made under certain patents,
unhealthy ingredients are four of the
principal causes advanced, by those who
have Investigated thoroughly the manu-
facture of oleomargarine, why its con
sumption is injurious TO health
DIR. r. d. Clark Of Albany, N. ", in
his report to the dairy commissioner Of
New York says: Before entering upon
1 the argument we wish TO state that we
have Investigated the claims of the 'oleo'
makers that the weight of the testimony
Of the medical profession was in favor of
its being healthy This, no doubt, was
true few years ago, but we have made
il point of inquiry for several years
past and find that this opinion was based
not as general thing upon investiga-
tion, but upon the sanction given the
stuff by such eminent chemists as
Professor G. f. Chandler and r. Ogden
Doremus. The opinion was also based
upon Mege's product, which must be
admitted TO be less deleterious to health
/ fbnn 4nQaf iF rn all AL nl,a.,
these spurious articles were sold so
surreptitiously until those whose per-
sonal interests We're incidentally affected
stirred up the Legislature TO Investigate
that but little or no attention was given
to the subject and consequently but
little was known about It, also that the
physiology, like the chemistry. Of fats.
until recently has beeh studied as a
whole, and consequently but little was
known of their individual properties.
Professor Clark in arriving at his con
clusion as to the indigestibility Of arti.
fcial butter describes briefly the digest
i've processes Of the great variety Of food
taken by man from the mineral and
organic kingdoms. The insolubiiitv of
these artificial buffers made from animal
fats is another potent factor in their
indigestibility. In man the digestive
process is carried on with greater
rapidity than in any Of the lower ami
mails, and the gastric juice acts upon
food from the outside to the centre.
The artificial buffers made from animal
fats, although the oleine and palmitine
are separated as much as possible bv
pressure, will not liquefy at the stom-
ach's temperature. These insolub le fats
then must interfere with digestion in
two ways first, by not being acted upon
themselves by the gastric Juice; and
second, by being thoroughly mixed with
the other foods in the mouth they form
an impervious covering to them, thereby
preventing the gastric juice from coming
in contact with them.
The liability Of conveying disease germs
into the human system through the
means of artificial butter Is another of
the evils ascribed to oleomargarine by
Professor Clark. investigations, says
ne, ARE showing that many more dis.
eases than were formerly supposed are
communicable from animal to man-con.
sumption, anthrax, trichinosis, tape
worm, glanders, foot and mouth dis
ease, cow pox, hydrophobia, etc. The
manner in which trichin@ can get into
artificial butter can easily be seen from
the following: When the animal takes
cyst containing trichin@ into its
stomach the cyst is dissolved by the gas
trio juice, which sets the trichine free.
when it passes out of the stomach
} into the intestines, where it develops in
J from a week TO ten days. The young
trichin@ then make their way through
coaneetive tissues TO the muscles.
Inchinm are found in hogs, cattle and
sheep, and as those animals are killed
during the migratory period the caul
J TAT would doubtless contain the parasite.
1t is alleged by the makers of artificial
] butter that the fat from animals dying