The Saint Paul globe., 1896-09-21
PROF. HART SAYS TT WAS NOT
MADE FOR THE HUMAN sTOM-
ACH ACT ALL.
WHOLE WHEAT is HIS DIET,
AND HE PRESENTED SOME BIS
QUITS TO THE RECENTLY VS.
ITING DOCTORS.
HAS DINED SOME OF THE LOCALS,
Too, ON His Novel Bread and Bis
cult, to Their Evident Satfsfac-
tiOn and Health,

visitor to the recent medical con-
vention of some note was Prof Herb
ert William Hart, of London, England,
who Is almost as warm upon the trail
of the millers' combine as is Editor
Hosk1ns. but in a different line
Mr. Hart's idea is to attack the mil
iers by curtailing their sales. and that
he proposes to do by having people
quit eating the present patent -four.
HE insists that it's injuries to the teeth
or the consumers are slight as COM
pared with the uselessness of its df-
gestion In the stomach, and he points
to his own robust frame as a proof
that it is not essential to life
broad shoulders. .fullchested, with a.
long white beard betokening virility
In spite of evident years Mr.. Hart is
a unique character. Not a doctor. he
hobnobs with doctors: not a miller. he
treats peaceably with the men he is
trying to conquer.
According to his own story he was
STRIPPING of no remarkable physical
promise when as member of her
maJeSty'S troops, he was sent into the
Held In the Crimean war thirty wears
ago. En- route the command of which
ne was a part spent some time in a.
province of eastern Austria. where in
stead OF using American milled -four.
the natives We're content with a crudelv
ground wheaton flour, which might
perhaps be said to include the bran
middlings, and practically all the
wheat berry
Mr Hart has been eating that flour.
or something similar ever since his
oo1ecllon to the so called finer grades
OF nour being the deleterfous amopnt
Oh starch which they contain.
1his starch is difficult Of digestion
anu the digestive apparatus Mr.. Hart
ooinpareS TO the dynamo which fnr-
iilshes the power for all the function
u human activity. Therefore he is
careIul or his own. He eats but two
,ieais d DAY, although he does NOT
.ooh poorly nourished. He admits that
they are good ones.
one trouble he saws ia tb.+ ~.
organs OF the body and the hrain do
NOT receive the necessary materials -
replenlsh the wastes of the svStar,'
50 tnat when sits down to what is
oluiharlly considered a substantial re-
ptI pt1so u STEAK. vegetables, bread and
otnef materials that do not contoin
the nutritive salts and nhosnha4as
Eeeded to replenish the wastes he
Ieeis craving which results in more
eating. These phosphates in grains
ana vegetables are found in the o,,tar
coat. and in these are found tha
natural laxative. From this basis Mr.
aart e advocates the use of bread made
- I'm whoie wheat flour as the basis
che skk1ns of vegetables and
Ifuitss saS we'll as the interior nor
tIoh. Adman may go nine hours on a
meal constructed on such princinIas
MY own experience of forty vaara
Tells me that, he says
Dr- Love, of st. Louis, told the con-
sIess OF physicians in st. Paul that
euiis 1 ipation was the primary factor in
all cases OF obstruction of the howeIs
as Well as in the majority of the cases
OF appendicitis, and other disturbances
OF the abdominal tract He said. .Men
are seriously disturbed by constina-
ton, but women are affected In a
doubly dangerous way. Ninety-five
per cent OF the diseases of women are
| due to constipation"
Mr Hart says: TN the wear 1s15
during the war with France. the Enp,
ilsh parliament was compelled from
sneer necessity to pass q bill prohfb
lung the Use Of all bolting cloths
The reason was that she had an armv
IN the field. and was obliged to make
the grain go as far as it would
Eighty Thousand troops, encamped on
Salisbury plain, were fed on braa
| made from whole wheat flour what
was the result? The men at first swore
at the bread, but being compelled to
eat 1t, they soon swore by it and n
was afterwards declared by q commits,
sion of inquiry instituted that never
before Were so many troops encamped
| in such q healthy sanitary condition
as We're these men. 1t would have been
well IL the system Of whole wheat
| Hour had been made permanent but
unfortunately at the close of the war
| the toothleSs old men and old women
| and the brainless masses clamored for
| the repeal of the law which woa1ld
had 1t been made permanent. have
| done more for civilization, true reIfg-
| ion, health and prosperity than all
the enactments that ever have been or
ever VIII be made by government
| "As all starch foods are poisonous
| in their action on the system because
l of the removal in the milling process
/ OF the phOsphates, man has invented
| various liquids to compensate him for.
| his loss The brewer provides you with
I beer made from barley, an inferior
| grain because 1t is cheap because the
miller has removed the same element
from wheat, from which our stomach
would make it's own beer if 1t had the
| chance"
| He wants the millers to make whole
wheat -four, which, with their present
expensive plants Of so-caIled "purf-
| hers," they seem to be averse to do
| ing.
| During his visit here, Mr.. Hart ha.
dined q number of medical men on
his somewhat unique diet, to their evf-
| dent satisfaction