Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1902-07-16

A recent telegram from ParNs an
nounces the fact that the celebrated sur
geon, DR. Lucas Champoniere, has as
certained that one of the pril cipal causes
of appendicitis is the free use of flesh
TO ds. Dr. Champoniere was appointed
by the Partisan Academy OF Medicine
to investigate the cause of appendicitis,
/ and embodies the above statement in his
report to the academy The report will
doubtless be no smal shock to consid-
erable number ol persons who are labor
ing under the erroneous belief that flesh
of animals affords the most digestible,
strengthening and wholesome form of
nutriment.
The old idea that appendicitis is due
to foreign bodies lodging in the little
pocket attached to the lower end of the
caecum, has long been known to be
quite untenable. The appendix keeps
its door tightly closed until it becomes
inflamed and enfeebled by disease, then
its valvelike orifice bt comes relaxed and
foreign substances drop in. The cause
of this inflammation and relaxation is
in the great majority of cases, un-
questionably catarrh or chronic in
fiammation Of the mucous membrane.
The disease does not begin in the an
pendix, but in the intestine finding it's
way TO the appendix later
Catarrhal disease of the stomach and
intestines is due to germs which become
colonized upon the mucous membrane
and multiply prodigiousiy when stimu-
lated by favorable nutriment finding
their say into the millions of little
glandular pockets scattered over the
iRtestinos, thus establishing a chronic
LODI ,asaE,
forms of chronic gastritis. entritis, in.
fectious jaundice, colitis and appendi-
citis. Labratory experiments have
shown that the most favorable material
for the cultivation of these germs is
meat and meat juices. They will not
grow in fruit juices and they develop
very feebly and slowly in solutions OF
tfesfy fgpiu s SStt iI Ur ~ .. = -
est degree OF viruIence or tIuaiI y activity
in beef tea, beef extracts, bouLilon, ana
animal broths of all sorts. If flesh food
is eaten freely there is always present in
the alimentary canal not only extracts
of beef, on which these catarrh produc'
ing germs thrive luxur iously, but frag-
ments of half -digested. flesh undergoing
putrefactive changes. The poisons pro
duced by the germs tC, which these pro
cesses of decay are due damage the
mucous membrane, o,wering the vitality
of the patient, and thus preparing the
way for action of the pathogenic or dis
eased condition of micro bes, which gives
rise to intestinal catarrh and the othei
forms Of inflammation.
1t Is exceedingly fortunate that sc
distinguished al authority as DR.. Lucas
| Champoniere, whose fame as surgeon
| is worldwide, has personally investlgat
ed this matter, and Learning the trutf
| has announced it to the world over the
authority of his great name, as it may
be hoped that, coming from such
source, this startling statement nal
receive the attention which it deserves
and may prove another important hnl
| in the long chain of irrefutGble cientiii'
| facts and arguments which clearly uoin
| to the immense damage to the hul1ai
race resulting from the habituai use o
| flesh foods Thousands of intelligent
men and women in this ountry are al
ready convinced of the evils OF habitua
flesh eating and are rapidly curttsiiinl
| their butchers bills, and this new evl
dence against animal flesh as food vii
unquestionable lead many to baLisi
| flesh of all kinds from their tables a
once and forever. Good Health.