The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-10-30
TEST FOOD ON HUMAN BEINGS.
Government to Conduct Series of
Experiments I'm Washington.

Experiments In Washington.
From the Chicago Chronicle.
Twenty-four young men have offered
themselves at the altar of their coun-
ty. They have signified a willingness
to eat any and all kinds of food provid-
ed them at the government expense
without asking any questions and
agreeing to abide by the consequences.
They are to do this for two reasons
first, because they viii obtain food
free during the progress OF the expert
ments, and. secondly. in behalf of SCI
| ence.
One of the conditions is that they
shall not know what they are eating.
| They will be divided into two squads
and each squad win alternate between
\ the ordinary table and the training ta-
BILE. They will be piled with all sorts
of preservatives, coloring matter and
baking powders and the experiments
will continue for months. When the
experimenters are through they VIII be
able to give people an immense amount
of useful information on this subject
OF food and its effects on the human
system. aA
The United States government has
authorized series OF experiments on
human beings, which viii be begun in
Washington Nov. 1 under the direction
of Prof. Fl. w. Wiley of the Depart
ment of Agriculture.
The professor delivered an address
on What the Chemist Can Do to
Conserve the Public Health" before
the Chicago section of the American
Chemical Society at the Bismarck last
night.
Experiments on Young Men.
I'VE propose to begin in few days"
he said, "a series of experiments on
a number of healthy young men with
a view of determining the effect OF
preservatives. coloring matters. adult
erations and substitutes in human food
preparations on the human body. The
newspapers have announced that we
could not get any young men to ex-
pertinent on, but the exact opposite is
the truth. We have secured the SER
vices of "a young men, though we need
only twelve, so that IL we kill the first
dozen we shall have a reserve force
Of a dozen more. They come to us
from a double motive. They are sim
cerely interested in the experiments and
as they live on small salaries they are
pleased at the prospect of receiving
elegant board at government expense.
They know exactly what they viii have
, to submit to and have all taken
solemn oath to conform to our rules.
Water Proves Deadly.
IF alcohol has slain its thousands,
water has slain it's tens of thousands"
the professor continued. 1.-THE victims
OF intoxication cannot be compared, in
point of numbers. with the victims Of
germ-laden water, whether drunk as
water or as milk. Typhoid fever is the
great scourgc of the human family"
Prof. Wiley, who is on his way back
to Washington after having delivered
an GRAFTON at Lawrence University In
Kansas, covered in his remarks last
night the whole field of chemical work
in connection with human life and
health. No science, he said, stood in
such close connection with human hap
piness as chemistry.
Beginning with pharmacy and the
u1ateria medica. he discoursed on the
discovery and synthesis of new reme-
dies, the evils Of adulterated medicines,
the study Of the effect of drugs on the
system, government control of the wa
ter supply and milk supply, the control
of smoke and fumes. the disposal of
garbage. the adulteration and coloring
of food. the evil OF preservatives and
the discovery OF antitoxins and serums.