Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-10-26

climb mountains daily, a distressing
muscular fatigue soon comes. Ex-
iperience has shown that sugar is pecu-
liarly acceptable at such times. This
is in line with the known fact that the
working power of those on low diet
increases greatly in regions where the
sugar cane grows, at the seasons when
the cane ripens sufficiently to be
eaten.
Many a sportsman would return to
camp much less exhausted if he would
adopt the plan of carrying a few cubes
of sugar in his pocket to be eaten as
needed when muscular fatigue de-
yelops.
We have all experienced the ire
mendously increased ability of the
digestive organs at the end of a week
in the woods, for they rise quickly to
the emergency. We eat with avidity
bacon and other quickly transformaDle
foods. After this ability to keep up
with the waste has de~eloped, we are
no more than normally tired by the
days exertion. During the stage of
adjustment, the sugar is CT especial
value, and is more urgently called fer
than at other times.
In paper read before the section of
physiology and dietetics at the Ameri-
can Medical Association meeting in
Columbus, DR.. c. E. Woodruff, captain
and assistant surgeon, U. S. A.. who re-
Gently returned from Manila, said In
favor of bacon as a ration:
For many years it Canned roast
beef has been used as makeshift
when fresh meat cannot be procured
1t has been supplied to armies and
ships in such great quantities that
the trade in it is very important. The
board of officers, of which the writer
was member, investigated this article
quite thoroughly in Chicago a few
years ago, visiting the stock yards and
witnessing the process of manufacture
Though we recognized it's excellence
as makeshift, we rejected it as an
emergency ration, because it was in
ferior to bacon for the following rea-
sons: 1t is nothing more than boiled
or steamed beef and tastes like soup
meat and, though it is quite palatable
when mixed with vegetables and
made into a stew, it has to be eaten
as it is, because in an emergency veg
etables are rarely if ever, on hand. 1t
quickly clogs on the appetite, while
bacon does not. In order to sterilize
the beef it has to be 'tprocessed" or
subjected to high temperature, say $50
degrees or more, by steam, under pres
sure. This boiling undoubtedly re-
moves so much of the stimulating ex-
tractives that we must expect canned
meat to be far less satisfactory than
fresh meat"
DR. Woodruff states that owing to the
lack of these stimulating extractives,
vegetables, ETC., the canned roast beef
ration would be an utter failure in the
tropics where there is such an in
creased demand for food to restore or
repair waste. For the doctor has dis
covered that it is mistake to suppose
that the system does not require much
food in the tropics.
| when a chemist wishes chemical
| changes to go on more fiercely, he
raises the temperature of the combin-
ing elements, and we do the same
thing in therapeutics" Says DR..
Woodruff: eve are officially informed
that every case of sluggish metabolism
and defective excretion of waste pro-
ducts is cured by course of hot baths
in Arkansas. Excessive atmospheric
heat does the same thing, and we can
easily understand one e the reasons
for this excessive chemical energy
and increased waste. So the amount
of necessary food to supply unavoid-
able wastes is much larger than in
temperate climates