Arizona silver belt., 1892-09-03
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4 Man couid Give Hardly Longer Thas
 Wreck on Asparagus Aiona.

Man couid GIve Hardly Longer Thar
 Wreck on Asparagus Alone. Especial interest attaches to Dr. Sails.
 Suiy's food experiments Tho half Gozef
 sturdy fellows whom he put on a diet oi
 baked beans and coffee exclusively. all
 showed symptoms of locomotor ataxia.
 or progressive paralysis, on the tenth
 day, and by the sixteenth day not one of
 them could walk straight without sap-
 port; all had chronic diarrhea, heart
 palmtatlon and oppressed breathing
 Four hearty, well men were put on
 oatmeal porridge seasoned with butter.
 pepper and salt--with pint of coffee
 containing sugar and milk at each meal.
 Constipation, hatulence, headache and
 dizziness were aifiicting them all on the
 eighth day. In two days more these econ.
 ditions had become violent; exertion pro. duced heart palpitation, and they were tull ot wandering pains, with prickling in feet and hands.
 These disorders grew more intense and ] painful neuralgia induced in three cases-until from the twenty-third to the twenty-tifth day. when diarrhea set in. and therecord is full of such entries as Eyes wild. hearing impaired, head con i fused. memory poor, legs and feet numb quite deaf and listless, heart palpitates and very irregular" up to the thirtietr day, when If was deemed imprudent and unsafe to carry the experiments further and in four days more, by meat diet and hot water, the men were restored to normal health. It may be well to ob- serve here that iu all cases men experi. mented upon were as thoroughly and quickly cured of their abnormal condi- tons by those means.
 Violent chronic diarrhea, such as often prevails in armies and is known ss camp diarrhea, was produced in three hearty, strong men by feeding them ex- clusively upon army biscuit in from nine. teen to twenty-one days-a spell of con- stipalion preceding-and microscopic examination proved that they were liter. ally filled with yeast germs. Eaeh had | marked symptoms of loconotor ataxia | and partly lost the use of his lower !! limbs.
 Bread, rice, wheaten grits, hominv. sago' tapioca and potatoes were each fed | to four or six men at a time for periods | Of from forty to forty-fYe days before seriogs diseases and symptoms were bro duced- Green peas and string beans ranked next in point of alimentary anali. ueS Green corn, turnips. beets and squash quickly produced unpleasant and grave deraugenents, but of all vegs tables asparagus was found most iniur- ous '~hca lived upon alone. Seven days 's .hout 'a lUrg as t would be safe 10 'i1sls, on t.lis plant. owing to the effect gpoa Enc kidneys.
 Patients have lived exclusively on beet 1nd mutton for from three 10 fourvears. ouii. Il one sticks Co them too long they are liable to become mouotonons. and nay eau@e meat 5yspepsia." which is iaHseruus People who live exclusiyel, 'l vegetable food, as the Hipdoos, are tnabled to do go by inherited organic tendencies Their sicmachs are of little T ao use to them The pyioric valve being permanently paralyzed remains 1pep, % hat vegetable matter passes hrectiy irtothe proper eald of itg diyes. 4oa Ohio se.ie Journal,