Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-11-19
CAUSED BY FINE FLOUR.
he. Caused by Modern Milling
Methods.

sponsible for appendicitis, according
to q physician who has been in the
practice of medicine for so years, and
who has observed the spread of the
disease. This physician, DR.. n. c. How
ard, of Champaign, ILL.,, asserts that
until the trade demand for exceeding
| ly white flour changed the methods OF
grinding wheat there was no appendi-
citis, reports the Chicago Tribune.
To prove this assertion the physi'
| clan points to the fact that where
coarse breads are used the disease is
| unknown, but that as soon as the fiae
breadstuffs are introduced appendicitis
| comes along as sequence.
BY this reasoning it is shown that
| the people of agricultural communities
| who secured their flour from small
mills did not have the disease until the
small mills were crowded out by the
large ones and fine white -four sup
planted the coarse.
Then the negroes Of the south SO
long as they ate corn bread were free
process -four began to be used the dis
ease came among them. The same
results attended the departure of the
German folks from their coarse bread
to the refined -four.
II can remember that prior to about
1875" said DR.. Howard, "there was
little or none of the ailment among
the people. In rs years of practice
among the people before that time
do not think saw more than 40 eases
of appendicitis. Now they are com.
mon.
Large and extended changes in the
diet of people has contributed to this
For example, about the date mentioned
there began to be a general change
from the old method of grinding grain
to the present method of roller mills
and excessively fine boiling cloths.
This plan of milling began first in the
large cities, and appendicitis began to
increase first there. Later the new
process crowded out the small mills
in the country, and the people could not
get flour made by the old processes.
They bought products of the large mill
ing establishments, and then tho farm
ers began to have appendicitis.
Still the negroes of the south did
not have it, but in time they began
to get away from their plain corn
bread, and they, too, began to have ap-
pendicitis. So it goes. They did not
have appendicitis in Germany until
they began to eat our fine white -four
and put in the new process of milling
after our fashion. Now they have ap.
pendicitis in Germany just as we do.
Inexperienced millers will tell you
that the fine -four is less desirable
flour than that made by the old
process, but the trade demands it, chief
~ on account Of it's whiteness. On &C.
count of it's indigestibility the disar.
rangement of the digestive organs of
the people eating it has greatly in.
creased. The prime cause of appended.
tbs is found in this disarrangement.
"Quite small children have it, I
know one boy who had 10 we'll defined
attacks of the disease and came out of
all of them without surgical opera.
lions. He changed his food to corn
bread and mush, with coarse breads IL
general, vegetables, little meat, ane
some fruit, and he has taken on flesh
and has not had symptom of the dis
| ease for three years.
'The lack of phosphates in the food
is visible in the people, and physician
have greatly increased the use of med
icines containing phosphates. It is p
necessity. Children are brought
me suffering from. conditions result
ing from a lack of material in thei.
systems to form their teeth. Ten day
of treatment, giving phosphates, will
bring relief, and the teeth will begi:
to grow. They are suffering because
the ingenuity of men and the foolish
demands of trade have resulted in tax
ing from their food the material which
nature put in it for their growth"
The new process which is held &C.
countable for disease takes from the
grain the phosphates chiefly existing IL
the germ of the wheat, and just unde,
the bran, and leaves only the stare
and gluten.