Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1902-11-05
DUE TO WHITE FLOUR
So Declares an Illinois Physician
Regarding Appendicitis
wAsrs Coarse B~rsaastuRs were Ussa0
There never Was Know q Case
Of the Dlseane ModeFn
milling a. blame.

Changes in milling processes are re-
sponsible for appendicitis, according
10 a physician who has been IN the
practice Of medicine for 50 years, ana
who has observed the spread Of the
disease. This physician, DR.. n. C. How
ard, Of Champaign, Ill, asserts hae
until the trade demand for exceeding
" white -four changed the methods OF
grinding wheat there was no apPenot-
citiE, reports the Chicago Tdbuns.
To prove this assertion the phys~
elan points TO the fact TIM where
coarse breads are used the disease is
unknown, but that ~ soon Aa the hne
breadStuRs are introduced appsndieitis
comes along "a q sequence.
By this reasoning Il Is shown that
the people Of agricultural communities
who secured their Aour from small
mills aid not have the disease until the
small mills we're crowded out by the
large ones and fine white Hour sup
planted the COarso.
Then the negroes Of the south 90
long as they ate corn bread were free
from the disease, but when The new
process -four began 10 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 hour.
81 can remember that prior TO about
1875" said DR.. Howard "thero was
little or none Of the ailment among
the people. In Is years Of practice
among the people before that time l
do not think 1 saw more than 40 cases
Of appendicitis. Now they are COM
mon.
large ana 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 &c
increase first there. Later the new
process crowded out the small mills
in the country, and the people could not
get -four made by the old processes
They bought products of the large mill
, ing establishments, and then the farm
, ers began to have appendicitis.
"Still the negroes of the south did
not have it, but in time they begaI
to get away from their plain corr
, bread, and they, too, began to have ap
: pendicitis. SO it goes. They did no
have appendicitis in Germany unit
, they began to eat our fine white houl
and put in the new process Of milling
> after our fashion. Now they have ap
: pendicitis in Germany just as we do
: Experienced millers will tell yol
that the fine -four Is a less desirabl
-four than that made by the oil
process. but the trade demHndsit, chiei
" on account of it's whiteness. On &C
count of its indigestibility the dsal
rangement of the digestive organs o
|. the people eating it has greatly II
creased. The prime cause Of appendic
tbs is found in this disarrangement.
"Ouite small children have it.
. know one boy who had Is well define
attacks Of the disease and came out G
all Of them without surgical oper'
!. tions. He changed his food TO cor
bread and mush, with coarse breads
: general, vegetables, little meat, an
/, some fruit, and he has taken on fes
!, and has not had a symptom of the di
=. Ease for three years.
= "The lack Of phosphates in the foe
% is visible in the people, and physician
have greatly increased the use Of me
"a icines containing phosphates. It is
h necessity. Children are brought
w me suffering from conditions resul
r. ing from a lack Of material in the
q systems to form their teeth. Ten da.
h. Of treatment, giving phosphates, "
bring relief, and the teeth viii beg
ar to grow. They are suffering becau
az the ingenuity of men and the fooli
- demands Of trade have resulted in ia
Nv ing from their food the material viii
ID nature put in it for their growth"
Of The new process which is held
q countable for disease takes from t
-es grain the phosphates chiefly existing
the germ Of the wheat, and just und
the bran, and leaves only the star
and gluten.