Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-11-14
KILLED BY EATING PEANUTS.
a cml ATE TWO QUARTS AND
DIED.
A Mans nest Friend lie fiis stomach.
The Diphtherla Cure Lends to
search for Consumption speeinc.
Hot Rolls and rresh broad.

NeHv "VrosS u mover institution. IL was
a school OF instruction in n Wagner
dining car. There were marshaled a
dozen men. including parlor car con-
ductors. buotct walters and portcrs, An
Instructor waa telling them how TO run
BUFFET The bunet cars ARE under the
Wagner conductors. ana the loAson was
principally addressed to the latter The
instructor. an officer OF the company.
showed how coffee was properly made
and Illustrated the making OF sand
wlch. and the manner In which lunches
should be put UP generally.
l discovered that every oune, waiter
or cook carries block OF wood just the
size OF sandwich. This block Is half
an Inch thick. indicative OF the thick
ness OF the bread which should be
served In the form OF sandwich. The
waiter is also Instructed to use about
two ounces of meat The coffee Ia put
in tins In quantities sufficient for one
person. 1t is ground, and when stepped
with cup and half OF water fur
nishes Quantum sufielt for the traveller.
Each portion OF cocoa Is In an envelope
so that nothing need be wasted and
nothing can be purlolned. IL the ac-
counts are strictly kept,
The bumet walters ON the Wagner
coaches are not little put out by
recent order which forbida them to col
lect for the refreshments sold and
which requires the Wagner conductors
to attend to this matter. The reason
for this order. which appears TO have
mysterious origin, has not been made
known, but II Is In force. much TO the
disgust OF the walters and also OF the
conductors.
Interesting TO Dyapcptics.
one of the buffet employees tells me
that the sandwich Is atm the most
popular rejection on the cars, ana as u
rule people prefer TO have sandwiches
devoid OF crust IL IL opportune per-
hapA that prominent russian phyHi-
clan appears at this moment ns a de-
fender OF the use OF fresh bread aud
hot rolls, lie writes 10 q Russian med
ical periodical % high standing that he
prefers fresh bread because he has
found by investigation that the heat 81
baking kills all microbe organisms,
and that u bread ~ not eaten fresh, mi
orohcs VIII find Judgment IN II, 40 It
is an excellent medium for their prop
agatlon. lie finds more Of these NIL
crosconlc enemies OF mankind In wheat
than in rye bread.
A German physician also defends the
use OF hot rolls on tho ground that they
are more palatable than the stale ones
and he says the Injurious effects OF
eating them are due entirely to the fail
ure TO properly mastcatc the food
He holds, but beg to dlfrer with him
In this, that fresh bread " just as easily
digcstcd as stale bread II one VIII only
thoroughly masticate the particles be-
fore swallowing them, To most persons
the crust OF a freshly baked roll Is the
most delicious part and at the famous
cure In Carlsbad, Austria, where dlkea-
tive diseases are treated with notable
success the patients are permitted to
eat the crust OF fresh rolls. but are
strictly prohibited from eating the soft
part. The experience OF this great Aus
trinn health resort therefore nntago-
nlzes the logic OF both the Russian and
German physicians 10 whom l have re-
ferred.
lie Kind to Your stomach.
In this connection recall remark
recently made by a New York physl-
clan after reading OF tho death OF u
young woman In Brooklyn In conae-
quence OF eating two quarts and n pint
OF peanuts In three days. SAID the
doctor. Such statements make me
lose faith In all mankind. The peanut
Is very appetiz!ng thing, and II eaten
In moderation and well masticsted
viii do no harm TO n person with
n fairly good digestioni but think OF
eating more than two quarts OF thcmi
Think OF putting such n terrific load
ON the human stomach Just TO crafty
the appetite. II the young woman
had eaten little salt with the nuts
the probabilities are That the process
OF digestion would have gone on and
her stomach would not have been
clogged. But no person should permit
fancy for any particular kind OF
food 10 overcome the dictates OF
common prudence. Always remember
that your stomach Is your best frlcnd
and treat Il as such, II you don't you
will surely be reminded Of every act
Of unklndnesa" The human stomach
II n mass OF muscle ans fiber which
seems to be specially constructed to
meet the infrmitcs ana weaknesses
OF our appetitas II Ia like n piece OF
India rubber. but there nae limitu TO
its endurance. az every dyapeptlc
knows and as everyone who abuses
Il VIII discover in due time and very
often too late
The New "scrum cure
Great Interest IL manifested abroad
over the now serum treatment for
dlptherla. and eminent physicians be-
lleve we are on tho eve OF a revolu-
tlon in medical practice. The dis
covercr OF the new treatment, DR..
Roux. has had conferred upon him the
cross OF the commander OF the legion
OF honor by the president OF France.
but he generously shares tho honors
Of the original discovery with two
German bacteriologista, distinguished
pupils of Or. Koch Thor discovery
has given rise 10 school OF what Is
known AZ "serum therapeutics" A.
long uRo as 1890 attention was called
20 the fact that II an immune animal,
that Is an animal not susceptible 10
diphtherla like the horse were inor-
ulated with tho bacteria Of diphtheria
and n the blood serum Of such nm
animal were used 10 inoculate diph-
thereto patients the vlruience OF the
disease IN the latter would be wholly
or partly destroyed This treatment
has boon tried IN the hospitals OF
Paris ard other centera OF Europe
with wonderful results. and I hear
that II Is about TO be used In this city.
A New Cure for Consumption.
II IL natural that the discovery Of
the serum treatment OF dlphaherin
should lead TO Investigations In other
fields OF medical diecovcry. and OBJ
serve that the London Lancet reports
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