The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1896-07-12
GERMS In CONDENSED MILK.
Must Be Sterililed By The Same
Method Used With Fresh Mix.
THE WONDERFUL HUMAN MACHINE.
Man Is Physically The Finest and Most
Dangerous Animal In The World
and More Than Match For
All Othcr-Hygiene
Of The Eye

milk Is SteIllLeQ milk IS ~ no IntdIo
correct. There is certainly great diner
ence In tho products OF different manu-
facturers. CONDEMNED milk often contains
microbes. which, u actively growing in
the milk are ready 10 grow when the
milk is diluted and taken into the stom-
ach
When the condensed milk is sllmy,'
cheesy. or semi solid In character II con-
tains germs which are actively develop
ing. These germs are from the sources
which ordinarily contribute 10 the con-
taminatlOn OF milk. The only safe way
in the use Of condensed milk Is 10 ster-
ilize by the same methods employed Tor
stenlizlng fresh milk. As a rule, condens-
ed milk requires sterilization as wei
as ordinary milk. although II must ne
said u-at generally. there are fewer MI
crobes 10 be found IN condensed milk than
in fresh milk furnished by the mlkmen.
THE HUMAN MACHINE.
a recent number OF the Medical News
had an interesting editorial on The Per
lection and the Resources Of the Human
Machine" which Is here produced in
part:
In the first place. the lesson that the
schoolma am is so fond Of impressing
upon the infant mind-"Man is physically
the feebiest Of all animals. but by his
superior brain he masters all'-is utterly
untrue. Man is physically The finest,
most dangerous animal IN the world. Not
a bird. or beast. or even fish that he
can't beat at fits own game # he sets
himself about n. The BlackfoOt indian
vii run down n deer. knife in hand;
even the "tireless WOLF can be over
taken and killed if you can only keep
on his trail. The negroes Of Mozambique
spring right into the water and attack
sharks. armed only with a short knife.
The sikh VIII face a tiger WITH his short
heavy scimitsr; and thousand tests
ahundanty demonstrate that civilized
d. "a "a ~
as the latter IS 10 the animals. Club or
sword I'm hand, man Is a match for the
most ferOcOus beast Of prey in fair.
stand-up fight, and the club or It's de-
scendCnt IS as much part or ms as orr
bones or skin; but for IL. we should never
have allowed our teeth and claws 20 de-
generate into such feeble objects. is use
has made US right-hauded; rght-handed-
ness has specialized the brain 10 sucn
degree that speech was possible, ana
speech makes thought possible. So that
our mental superiority Is purely an out
growth and n part OF ONT muscular SUI
periority. In the language OF Tommy
Atkins. In Kiplng's ballad. homo ssaplens
IS pore. hcnighted heather, but p
frst-class ftin-man" and tWO-thirds OF
his vrtues-moral. physical ana mental
are the fruits thereof And yet. we tax
OF him professionally, as II he were
clam without she'll
DEFY THE ELEMENTS.
Tn the second place there is no known
organism that can defy the elements as
he can. ANY zoOlogist VIII tell us that
no other mammal and no bird has one
half the geographic range that the hu-
man species has. His faithful friend, the
dog win accompany him almost every
where. but only by having his FOOD, smell
ter and even clothing. provided Tor him
NV the superior species We speak Of be-
ing "as rugged as a bear. but IL taxes
three distinct species Of ursus 10 Keep
pace with man from the tropics 70 Inc
uOle A dozen or more species or deer
are required for the same match. Even
tho domestic animals. when carefully
housed and fed by him. are far inferior
I'm toughness. and one Of the greatest on
stacles 10 his progress, IN many regions
is the impossibility or hndins any pe"s ~
OF burden or milk-giycr that VIII live IN
a climate with him. The only species
that can ever enter the lists with him is
the bluc-winged teal, ana De Is dlsquaH-
fed at once by the fact that he Is me
ssvorv moral of fashionable Ndletnul-
MARIAN spending his summers in Labra-
dor and his winters in Florida.
Much of this faculty f., on course que
10 mans power or constructing suei'cl
and clothing for himself put sun more
TO his worldwide range OF ioou Ha.S
rials Look at him i'm the tropics, sun
sistiug on rice and fruits, only aa"4"s1
and ehavings Under his boiler, so I.
sneak. in the Arctic regions, soIbiHi
upon seal-meat and wnale-DluDueI' Hllns
ms engine up 10 the explosion point Iils
instinct meets the sieuA'Io-', - oi.-It.,cr
would look with l0athMS on the eng "tS-'t
ar tveutv-pound meal OF seal-DluDbtI on
~. F.0uiuo. and We, carniYora, or the
'csrnncrate Zone. would hesitate about at
'' SrI.FNDID ADAPTABlLlIH.
Yet a profcs siOnal friend OI ours n"s al
enred us that on q mid-Winter IMP win
dG.--eiedacs near the Alaskan shores OF
tb@ Arctic ocea n.he posiuFeil lost an
annette for bread, lean meat lI"'. s"1"t'
ell. and cared for nOinhe btt l"v %.
ssfted dried salmon and rancid seal-oh'
$50 f,-r1ed the food Of both bis Es-
nnirno rlldes and their 0Oss. a pint vi
tbs latter beverage carried IN the uhcuTeu
St,ira of the animal, he declared, was as
refreshing AMI appeuzlhs al'el to"o
DAVIS run as hot coffee with cream. W n,N
- remember that the whole party was
sleepinc out on the ice every nlsht III
a temperature Of from 80 10 % oeIv~ y
M with no shelter save their reiAdeeI-
Lin nigh.-hags. and their sleds plea up
an fhe Windward side or tnehlf We De6lH
IN Sc tho reason for THIS almost pure "g
drocarbon diet. There was not room IN
the stomach for enough OF any olner
,1SteriaI 10 furnish heat 10 keep Up the
bodily temperature against such iedflui
oodc But think OF the spiendld alapla-
bilfty of the creature. OuI I'sP'Dt ID-
the human machine becomes nnlhtas
HE Al the other extreme, iooA az SlaH-
lev and his Scmals' laDorins ior"1 sl'i
~ ofterf dav. IN heat and FEVER fog
,t.,,'eh the iuneleS of the Congo, every
,Li,e carried on the heads OF the men
10 ,nrsos oxen. or even asses cOuld
sta,d Inc work and the climate, all on
a diet OF roasted bananas. sugar-cahe'
and green corn.
,,stn,ont manifest themselves even more
Stronri, when We como 20 consider the
unfavorable environment in when man
,i.ces himself i'm the various occupa-
- 81 civilized life and the strain OF
10, surroundings. Scarcely trade or
,..,.unaffon can be mentioned IN Wnich
most az those engaged In II are not Wig
+,o,,s healthy aud lOng-llyed. We speak
v. ....C,,..,,nation diseases" IL Is true there
ora sncb bur none of them ever affects
,nore than a snail percentage OF those
a,soced Even when they occur. they
are SYMPTOMS OF lowered vitality, either
local or general. on the part OF the sur
ferer I'm most cases. Many or them can
he avoided entirely 10y cleanliness ana
observance OF the ordinary laws OF health.
TO RAISE BREAD AND DiIhIhEklA
The city physician Of Rochester, DR.;
seitz while visiting a house on CaSweH
co,~t an over-popuiated street, recently
S,sco,ered that a pan OF dough had been
..is.e5 90 rise in the bed Of n boy lll
n,.i.h ainhtheria. 4 quilt was thrown
80 me patient and the dough There
ara four other children IN the iamily.
"'' EYE HYGIENE.
poaaing In moving cOnveyances. wheth-
or carriages strcet-cars or trains. should
he FOR specific reasons, dlscOuutenanc-
~ a. produces and keep up eye
strains which can end in the production