The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-04-27

any vivisection except such as had al
ready been produced by war or some
other means. DR.. Beaumont made some
very successful experiments He found
that the lining of the stomach might
be so irritated and infiamed as to be
covered with ulcers and eruptions, and
actually bleed, without st. Martin be-
ing aware of the least suffering, and
without his showing any sign of disc
ase that any ordinary doctor would be
able to detect. Is not this the most
striking warning to us? We say:
'Such-and such a thing does not hurt
US, so long as we take it in moder-
alton" We can feel nothing wrong,
therefore nothing is wrong within us.
But neither did st. Martin feel any
thing wrong, and yet here the eye
could see the terrible results. The
blood circulates throughout the body,
and there cannot exist this illness in
the stomach without the rest of the
body being more or less affected. When
st. Martin ate greedily and quickly,
when he ate coarse food, the stomach
became angry and distressed. So DR..
Beaumont concluded that an extensive,
active chronic disease might exist on
the membraneouS tissues of the sto-
mach and bowels without any appre-
cable sense of pain or even of dis
comfort
If ST. Martin had said that certain
things, let US say pepper and mustard,
with ordinary porridge and beer, did
not hurt him at all, and if Dr. Beau
mont could point out to you certain
things with your naked eye through
that inchwide hole, would you believe
st. Martin or your own sight?
Had st. Martin been absolutely pure
blOoded as we'll as strong blooded. it is
probable that the effects of amy mis-
takes in food or feeding would have
Immediately produced discomfort, in
the same way that those who do not
take arsenic will at once feel the effect
of a small dose of arsenic, whereas
those who are sufficiently poisoned al
ready will take without appreciate
difference dose which might be suf-
ticient to kill two or three people.
All May Not Trust Their Desires.
So when one tells you, or when you
try to tell yourself so-and-so (you
know we'll enough what does you no
harm, think of St. Martin, think of
your blushing stomach; or. if the ex-
cuse should be Il want it because I
am hungry, ask yourself whether you
might be like the er-lady-whether
your hunger might not really be due
to kind of fever in your stomach.
Remember how those who have typhoid
fever go nearly mad in their desire for
large meals.
No, if you are intelligent you won't
trust your desires or feelings unless YOU
are healthy. Then go ahead. You
will get there some day, but before
you do, you. must walk warily.
Your inside is a much-enduring beast
or series of beasts; and, when it does
complain, it generally does so a long
times after you have whipped it and
bullied it. II often bears in silence in
jury after injury. What years of
faithful, pathetic brooding it must
tolerated And then at last it either
growls or bites. In either case you
say 'Ill-tempered curl" 1t is really the
cruel master that is to blame. Treat
the dog we'll; do not spoil him, and
do not starve him, and he will be your
best friend.
But there is another matter. You
are probably not alone. You live with
others, or you take your meals with
others, and you do not want to upset
all their arrangements, even if you can
do so. Very we'll; then begin carefully:
try a change for some one meal. See
how the simpler foods with enough
nourishment suit you for that one meal.
Be sure that you get your staple
God or basis of nourishment to take
the place of meat. Let it be cheese or
some nut-food or perhaps peas or
Beans properly cooked. But for good
ness sake do not neglect the materials
with which to build and repair the
body.
A sudden rush into a simple diet
such as mine might perhaps agree with
you perfectly; and. then, again. per-
haps it might not; who knows? 1t
agrees with large numbers of people,
1 believes but that is all; and there is
sure to be some opposition, especially
from those who have the very best in
tentions about you. And perhaps you
have not faith in the diet; perhaps even
all the athletic feats that have been
accomplished on the simple foods do
not convince you. You may be sure
that you will die; your relations will
agree with you, and back you up Cor
DOWN. All those who live with you
may be perpetually ill., if they like, with
inf1uenzas, colds, coughs, headaches,
grumpinesses. In such cases the eX-
plantations will be that these occur
rences are most unfortunate" $50
cruel" such hard lines" But you,
one day, living on the fieshless foods,
may look pale. MY dear Augustus,