Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-11-10
FAT GLoBULEs or MILK.
An Excess May BE Burden to Di
gestion.

An Excess May BE a Burden to Df-
gestfon.
The present condition of scientific
knowledge, says a writer in The Coun-
try Gentleman. totally ignores this old
idea Of the French scientists, as to this
inclosing pellicle of the fat globule. and
il anything is now certain it is that
milk is an emulsion, holding in visoid
fluid these suspended PARTICLES of fat in
precisely the same way that the globules
of codliyer oil are suspended in the
emulsion of gum water prepared by the
physician. This process Of emulsifying
this oil as a remedy for consumption
(tuberculosis) has been in use since the
Investigations of the first scientific med
ical association in the world, by whom
exhaustive experiments were made some
few years ago, the result of which was
for one thing that the oils of these fatty
liquids were emulsifed by the pancre-
attic fluid and then passed into the in
testines, where they were Immediately
absorbed into the blood by the Will Of
the intestines and taken up Immediately
into the blood along with the digested
food. Thus the fats of the food are not
digested at all, except so far as they may
be separated and distributed, not in any
way dissolved, and this word digest"
among its several other meanings has
this separation and distribution" as
two of them, but it has been shown that
the az yet incomplete blood carried to
the portal vein from the digestive organs
contains the fats of the food distinctly
in their natural condition and that
from this great supply canal of the sys-
tenn the fat globules are poured into the
heart and then into the lungs and
thence back to the heart to be diffused
throughout the body and assimilated by
the final absorption into the system.
Thus, giving up it's load Of nutri-
ment, the current goes back to the heart,
whence it is forced again through the
lungs, where its load of effete and used
up matter-the wastes of the system
are oxidized and the blood is purified,
and, having its supply of nutriment
again poured into it, goes on its way
again by the impulse of the heart at ey-
cry beat of the pulse So that while we
may reasonably think that the fats Of
the food may in some way be changed
in form by the act of emulsion in the
intestines we have no reason to believe
that there is any change in the oondi-
ton of the fat globules, but rather that
they enter into the circulation un.
changed in every respect and are actu-
ally deposited in the tissues in the same
form in which they are ingested, or are
returned to the lungs as unassimilated
matter to be oxidized there.
Right here is the pith Of this whole
matter. For if any part of the fats Of
the food is not healthfully disposed Of
in this way this remains in the blood
and gives rise to disorders of various
kinds. So that this disposal in d health
full manner of the fats of the food is one
of the most important matters for the
physician to study and meet in his prac
tioe. We all know the evil results of ar
excess of fat in our food, how it leads
to disturbance Of those organs lsuch al
the liver) whose functions are the puri
fication of the blood. If there is an ex-
cess of work thrown on these organs
the system is disturbed and various dis
eases occur AS the infants ability tc
digest and assimilate food is weak, We
are to ease the action of it's functions il
every way that may be possible, and al
the growing infant does not need fat Sc
much as sugar to sustain the vital heal
and heterogeneous matter, as the easein
to support its rapid growth, any excess
of fat is injurious as tending to throw
excessive work on the weak system, ant
this of course is detrimental, and il
weak infants may be easily too mucf
for the system to bear, and fatal results
NAV occur.