Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1901-05-23
THE QUICK LUNCH HABIT.
Dangers That Threaten Fast Eaters
Who Bolt Through Business
Lunches at Noon.

The business lunch threatens to
accomplish the destruction of the hui
man race-or so much of it as dwells
in Chicago and other large American
cities--if the statist ties adduced the
other night by eminent physicians
and surgeons at a meeting of the Chi
cago Medical society are found to be
the unfailing mirrors of destiny that
the doctors promise.
In the alarming increase of intes-
tinal or gastric" ulcers such eminent
medical practitioners as Drs. \. S.
Davis, Jr., w. A. Evans, j. Il. Herricli
and T.. w. Andrews announced in a
symposium recently that they feared
the American stomach would give out
in the course of time unless the pub
lie became wise enough to curb and
regulate the lunch counter method
of hasty eating, says the Chicago
Chronicle.
1T would seem that danger from
gastric liberation is not confined
alone to the men, who are the con-
sumers of the business lunches, but
that women are also threatened. To
the women's habits Of eating a few
bites at many hours of the day their
imminent peril is ascribed.
In paper read before the meeting
by DR.. Andrews he went on record
with the statement that stomach ul-
ceration from abuses of the digestive
organs, a disease "discovered" by
medical men only five or six years
ago, is more on the increase than APP
pendicitis and is much more danger
Gus to the permanency of the human
race.
statistics newly compiled and tab
ulated have shown that this disease
has increased about 200 per cent.
within few short years of its medi-
cal history" said DR.. Andrews. 1T
is, therefore. of the greatest impor-
tance that the medical profession
should give the disease their best at
tention and take all proper measures
to battle with it as new and formi-
dable danger to humanity"
What is considered as giving un-
usual significance to the symposium
was the coincidence that each of the
four readers of papers, who are all
of them professors in the local med
ical colleges, laid stress either infer
entially or in strong assertion that
Indigestion. due to overeating or
hasty eating, is to be blamed for the
alarming increase in this newest of
diseases.
1t was learned by several of the
speakers that in this country and
abroad this newest peril to health is
now more frequent than appendicitis
and that the treatment was more ex-
acting and the necessary operations
more delicate and difficult.
A phase of the discussion that par
ticularly interested the large audi
ence of doctors in the lecture-room
of the society w,~s Prof. Andrews
sketchy description of the hunt for
the ulcer after the surgical incision
is made. In this quest the profess or
told how small glass tube, with a
light, may be inserted in the stomach,
and that liberia! exploration of the
abdominal cavity may then be made.
In his paper on the symptoms and
causes of the disease DR.. Davis pre-
sented interesting arguments. The
pathology of the disease was dis
cussed learnedly by DR.. w. A. Evans,
while the most advanced ideas on the
complications and treatment were set
forth by Prof. Herrick. a round-table
discussion followed, in which several
of the physicians in attendance par
ticipated.
stripped of its medical tcrminol-
ogy this discussion may be regarded
as an arraignment of the business
lunch" said DR.. James II. Stowell,
chairman of the meeting. 'In lesser
degree it may also be taken as an ar
raigument of woman's perpetual eat
ing habits, the history of this new
disease showing that women are suf-
ferers from it more often than men"
In the same lecture-room at night
the members of the Chicago Society
of Internal Medicine discussed the
bubonic plague.