The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-22

nnSlciliHcHOI, OIL RUSSIA me pnago-
cites are powerful elements in pre-
vention and limitation of disease Met
chlnchoff discovered that they sliced
and destroyed the vfrulent germs. He
proved that their function is that of
the police or scavengerS of the human
system. They arrest and destroy the
harmful germs and thus prevent the
spread of, and stop the disease. In
my opinion the next and very great
est possible development in medicine
will be the discovery of a method of
cultlVating phagociteS at will Thus
we will be able to counteract disease
in a way more truly scientific than
the use of drugs. When infection oc-
ours we will draft a huge army of
phagocites and throw them into the
human system, with as much certainty
that they will combat and defeat the
dangerous disease germs as we would
feel now that an army of we'll trained
regulars would defeat a mob of undis-
ciplined children. This may read like
dream. but it is founded on the pur-
est of science.
THE NECESSITY FOR EXERCISE.
Another immensely important in
f1uence which is at work toward the
Improvement of the race is increasing
belief in the Importance of rational
physical exercise. In these days of
great concentration in cities it is par
ticularly necessary that this should be
understood. The number of sedentary
pursuits and the number of people
following them are constantly increas7
ing and fern a distinct cause for de-
terioration in general health. Modern
invention is. l believe, tending to cure
this unfortunate tendency, although on
the face of matters that seems improb-
able. An illustration of the truth of
the theory is familiar to everyone who
occasionally visits a dry goods store.
A few years ago such stores were
full of cash girls, and a more unhealth-
full life than they lead cannot we'll be
imagined. Necessarily they deterior-
ate. Logically this was a loss to the
whole human race. Within a few
years appliances have been invented
pneumatic cash carriers and what not
which have done away with the cash
girls. That one unhealthful line of
employment is thus wiped out by in
vention. Others have been, and 9TH
ers will be.
'The tendency of our modern diet is
toward greater compleXity, but [ be-
lieve that our food is constantly grow
ing better. The whole world is learn
ing how to cook. That is of the ut
most Importance. Another hopeful
sign is our tendency toward increased
consumption of sea food. 1 believe
that in time this will grow and that
lit will be of much benefit. 1t has an
economic as well as a hygienic value,
for an acre of sea will produce nearly
three times the amount Of food that
an acre of land will. Erastus Wiman
once made the interesting prediction
to me that Hudson's Bay would even
tually produce the greater part of the
food consumed in the United States.'
A STUDY OF DIET.
The matter of proper diet has been
Istudied very carefully by Edgar c..
BeaI, famous as brain specialist and
phrenologist. It may be commended
tice in his views, but they are most
interesting.
Said he: "There is a good deal of
scientific information on this subject,
but it is in the possession of a compar-
atively small number of people, and
want to explain why regular physi-
clans have not been more active in
hygienic treatment. The average ply
sician is tempermentally inclined to
sympathy with the morbid and dis
eased condition with which he deals.
1t is this very sympathy which has
lied him into the medical profession
have observed that physicians u.s.
lually have constitutions which have
been defined as bilious. The signs are
firm. closely woven f1bres, sallow or
dark complexion, and dark hair and
| eyes. This is prophetic of certain ele-
mefts absent in blondes. Men of this
type are interested more in the cure
| of actual disease than in prophylactic
or preventative measures. They like
to patch up. This explains why, as a
rule, they are not interested in hygiene
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and thorough knowledge of it. AS an
| ILLUSTRATION take the frequent recon-
lamentations by regular physicians of
! the use of tea and coffee, and other
! liquors, as we'll as the various forms
of meat diet, in circumstances which
the best authorities on hygiene would
exclude them entirely. This is a di-
rect result of the temperament which
makes physicians of them. It is as
tonishing how we all follow our ma
chinery.
MEAT AS FOOD,
"Now. as to the meat diet, I believe
lit we'll enough to modify ones diet
according to ones individual needs.
Where the temperament is somewhat
coarse or the individual is likely to be
exposed to a rigorous climate, a GER
! tain amount of meat is, perhaps, judi
vegetarian argument has the better of
| it. Take the rhinoceros, the hippota-
mus. the elephant, the camel and the
horse These are five of the longest
lived and strongest animals and they
are characterized by dispositions which
many human beings might do we'll to
! initiate. They are docile and good ma
tured; they are all vegetarians. This
conclusively proves that a non-meat
diet contains all the elements OF
strength and health, Thus, if you or
your neighbors have tried a vegetar-
| ian diet and have failed to thrive on it
| it is because you have not selected
your food as judiciously as do the ami
mails l have just named. The matter
of proper selection is very little under
stood In many cases vegetarian eX-
perimenters try to live on white flour
breads and watery fruits. Such a diet
as that fails.
"What is my objection to meat:
| There is comparatively little objection
to it's more delicate form-fowl, fish
and game-in those meats the fiber is
almost clean. It is comparatively free
from waste matter. In beef and NUT
ton and pork and those heavy FLOODED
meats there is a great deal more OF
excrementitious substance. Everybody
knows that the veins carry impure
| blood to the lungs for publication
Where do the impurities originate!
They are simply sucked into the veins
from the tissues-from the meat. II
is these impurities-these foreign mat.
ters, these decayed DEMONSTRATION
when taken into the system, produce
the sensation of stimulation which PEG.
pie experience when they have eater
meat, and which they mistake for E
feeling of added strength. So while
meat does, of course, contain consid
cradle nourishment, it contains les:
than people imagine. There is a feel