The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-09-09
HOUSEHOLD POISONS.
Dangers of the Mysterious and Desc
TyrotOYicop.

HOUSEHOLD POISONS.
dangers of the Mysterious and Deadly
TyrotOxicoD.
The recent cases of milk, cheese and
ice cream poisoning which have been
reported all come to reinforce the duty
of looking carefully after the milk sup
ply. In making "Bavarian cream" al
though the gelatine and fruits are
cooked and stirred together, the
whipped cream is not cooked, but
simply stirred into the mixture and
frozen. Freezing does not kill the
moldy poison known as tyrotoxicon,
which seems to be rather mold than
a ferment. Sour milk, which is simply
IN acid. hurts no one except young
babies There is no poison in fresh
cottage cheese or junket, or in butter
milk when kept in sweet, clean china
dishes, and not suffered to grow
moldy. Cream, on the contrary, has
sometimes moldy smell and a suspic-
ious taste. 1t may still be ''rich" to
the view, but it may contain, as the ex-
perience of, church fairs and picnics
can testify, the deadliest poison. Metal
freezers, in contact with moldy cream,
may produce q combination of irrit-
ant poison. 1t would be well to put all
custards and milk combinations always
into china or stone forms or shapes"
as the English say. They are much
safer than tin ones. Yet plain custard,
being always made with boiled milk, is
not open to the same objections as those
whipped cream preparations are in, in
which the cream is not cooked. The
pretty charlotte russo, if too long kept,
sometimes has moldy taste, which
should instantly be needed, and be the
last sampling of that article. 1t is only
within recent years that people have
that universal beverage, milk-with
those of the luxury-cream- 1t throws
much light on the ailments and suffer-
ing of teething children to know that
when the poisonous conditions are once
set up in the stomach any milk that is
taken afterwards adds fuel to the
flames 1t would be interesting to dis
cover, remembering the seeming lull for
q day in the sufferings of the Bay Head
fatal return of the symptoms-whether
the change to the worse could have
been because of a simple milk diet or
dered. When second summer" child
has got sick from its milk, the more
milk you give it, even if it is the best,
is simply furnishing fuel for that
strange tyrotoxicon to grow upon. A
change to mutton broth or barley
water, an absolute abstaining from
milk while the irritable conditions last,
is the only safety for the teething child
Certainly the dreadful experiences of
the past ten days show clearly that the
people who prepare our food ought to
be trained in household chemistry.
They ought to recognize over-kept
cream at sight, because in a perfectly
fresh cream, kept away from copper,
1t is not likely that tyrotoxicon could
fbe found. Many cases of ice cream
poisoning have been traced to come
from the cream having been kept too
long. either in the freezcrs or before
freezing, as freezing does not kill this
poison any more than it kills the chol-
era germ
There will be a general inspection of
freezers, no doubt, to see if they are
free from suspicion. But only a chem
inside Either the housekeeping de-
partment sorely needs a resident chem
list, or all cooks should take lesson in
chemistry. Otherwise they may cop
per-poison US in pickles or ice cream,
Just as they used to soda-poison us in
their biscuit. Eternal vigilance is the
price Of good cookery, but it must
also be blended with good, safe
knowledge as to when food is in whole
some condition. If you can make whole
some food poisonous by the way it is
pref ared. or by using it after it has
passed into an unwholesome state,
then it is indispensable to know this.
"A beefsteak in hot weather, that is
passing suddenly into decomposition,
although the taste may be carefully
concealed by pepper and sauces, acts
like an irritant poison in the stomach.
Fruits cooked in a pepper saucepan
that has lost its timed covering are
very dangerous The acid currant or
cherry may stand too long in the brass
preserving kettle. Keep your powder
dry applies, as q rule, 20 the house
keeper as to the soldier, and especially
in summer she should see that all cook
ing utensils and all foods are safe and
sound before the dishes come to the
table. Bat these things, of course, are
only brought home to US by sad expert
ence.-Philadelphia Ledger.
-Rusband-"Why do you wear such
q naughty expression when Mrs Van
welt passes? What has she done to of
lsend?" Wife - Offend! Why. the
sother day, when calling with her little
girl, she pulled Fido away from the
child's foot in most rough manner
although the sweet pet was only biting
in fun!''