The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1893-10-07
THE BODY AND ITS HEALTH.

Tor young children, insisting that more
harm than good comes from such food.
The Record Is Of the opinion that cows
milk is a fruitful source of much of the
tuberculosis that now curses humanity,
that in the very young tho tubercles do
not attack the lungs as at mature age,
but the mesenteric and other lymph
glands. The point is made that in Japan,
where there are no cows, tuberculosis is
unknown.
] DKAR Foop Nor THE Mosr NUrRI-
rIoUs. maxim that "the best is the
cheapest" does not apply to food. The
best food in the sense of that which is
sold at the highest price is rarely the
most economical for people in health.
The food that Is best fitted to the real
wants of the user may be the very kind
which supplies the most nutriment at the
lowest cost. Round steak at fifteen cents
n pound contains as much protein and
energy, Is just as digestible, and Is fully
as nutritive as tcndcrloin at fifty. Mack.
erel has as high nutritive value as salmon,
and costs from an eighth to half as much.
Oysters are delicacy. IL one can afford
them there Is no reason for not having
them, but twenty five cents invested in
pint would bring only twenty nine grams,
about an ounce, OF protein, and 260 cal
ories Of energy. The same twenty five
cents spent for flour at $6 barrel, or
three cents pound, would pay for 420
grams Of protein and 10, 700 calories Of
energy. When day laborer buys bread
at n cents a pound, the actually nutri-
tive material costs him three times as
much as II does his employer who buys
Il in flour at 80 n barrel.-lForum.
DIsINrKCrroN AFTER CoNsUMrrIvE
CASES. Both In France aud America
the risks incurred by the lack Of antisep-
tic precautions in consumptive cases are
receiving serious attention. DIR. Hop
kins, of Thomasvillc, in stating that he
has joined the growing army which
placed tuberculosis In tho category Of
contagious diseases, explains that his ex-
pericncc for 10 years with this disease in
consumptive resort has made him a
willing subject of Koch. He does not
doubt that all persons receive the tuber-
clio bacilli at some time or other into
their air passage, but fortunately tho
great majority possess tho power OF re-
pelling them. Indians in state Of
nativity seem impervious to the germs
OF consumption, but are now
dying by thousands on tho rcserva-
tions. Tho whites and the blacks
In prisons oil the world over
labor under similar conditions. A report
from the Illinois State Prison at Joliet
says that there are 400 convicts, and
that fully onc-third OF them have con-
sumption In light or bad form; nearly all
deaths In the penitentiary have been
caused by consumption. DIR. Hopkins
emphasizes tho danger that turks in
sleeping cars, in carpets, bedding, cloth
ing, aud In the walls OF apartments
occupied by consumptives which have
not been properly disinfected. fIc con
siders that the time may be approaching
when the resorts now soliciting the pat
ronnge OF the consumptive will be quar-
antining against him. In Paris, II APP
pears, the hospitnls are increasingly over
charged with phthisical patients, 80 much
30 that the Society OF Medicine and Pro-
fcssional Hygiene has lately issued re-
quest for the founding OF special hos
pital devoted to the treatment of this
disease, (which contaminates convSlos-
cents and ordinary patients in the general
nospithis' -- iospithi.
The PROBLEM or IEREDITY. Tho
scientific shibbolctb Of our time Is hered-
ity. The word Is on every ones tongue.
Viewing fallen fellow-mortal, it is
quite the fashion TO shake ones head and
say: "Oh, here1ity accounts for him;
blood will tell" And with this formula
we arc accustomed To measure our fol-
lows, much as "a clerk measures cloth.
And lest there should bo any doubt about
the method, the man of science comes TO
our aid. "Yes," he says, "you are quite
right. Your formula expresses the uni
versal principle Of hercdity. We word il
same. Like begets like is the way we
put IT, II applies to every living thing
in the world. Notice this bacillus, for
example. Even as you observe 1t be-
meath the microscope II divides, and two
baciIli arc there in place OF one. This
process IL will continue indefinitely, un-
der proper conditions, until there are
myriads Of bacili there, but every one
will be precisely like tho first.
The cholera bacillus never changes into
the bacillus OF consumption, nor that
into the bacillus Of diphtheria. Each
produces It's own kind and no other.
Like begets likop IL is beautifully sim
pie, unequivocally true and Of universal
application" II Is little wonder that so
relatively simple, so true and 30 sweep.
ing proposition has proved alluring.
All universal formulG arc 80. But IL
should not be forgotten that seemingly
simple principle may become very com.
plex, indeed, in It's application. So
Il !s here, indeed, a stumbling block Of
most alarming dimensions appears at the
very outset, II we attempt to apply the
principle OF hcrcdity intelligently to any
higher organism, in the fact that two
parents are to DO considered. These
parents are not precisely like one an.
othor, honcc, In the nature of the case,
the offspring must be either identical
with ono parent and unlike the other, or
else identical with neither Here theory
wavcrs, but experience proves that the
ofsprinQ nj ways combines in some meas