The Butte inter mountain., 1902-12-17
We WILL TRY It "0N THE DON"
Series Experiments of the Effect of Food Aderants and
Posons Began by Experts Upon the Bodies of Volunteers
1t May Be Learned What Is Good and What Is Not.

fast, when they are emptiest," said the
doctor. After donning their clothes they
were ushered to the dining room, cheer
full southwest apartment with four large
windows.
The six young men took their places
at one of the boards-that known as the
"hygenic table" Their first six to ten
days here will be known as their fore
period" During this they will be fed
analysed food, containing none of the
adulterants or preservatives under investi-
cation, and DR.. Wiley will ascertain just
how much of this food will be necessary
to preserve their natural bodily weight in
tact.
After this will commence the "obscr-
vation PERIOD" lasting from six to 10
days more. They will be fed exactly the
quantity of food discovered to maintain
their weight. but to this will be added one
of the substances under investigation. The
doctor will know exactly what quantity
had been added. He will ascertain the
effect of this substance upon completeness
OF digestion and assimilation by collection
and analysis of all excrcta. He will also
determine what has become Of the added
substances, in what way and in what
quantities it has been eliminated from the
body.
The "after period will then be COM
mcnced and will continue during the next
six to ten days. During this the same
quantities of food will be continued, but
the substances under investigation will be
omitted. This period will restore the nor
NAL functions in case they shall have been
disturbed.
The "after period" having been passed,
the boarders will be removed to the second
table in the room, and six more young men
will take their places at the "hygenic ta-
blc." At the second table the six veteran
boarders will be fed for period of from
IS to 80 days the very best food which the
market will afford, without any provision
whatsoever.
Meanwhile the six newcomers at the
hygienc table will be repeating their
ordeal, If such it may be termed. Thus IL
young men will be kept going at once
after the work shall have had complete
start To secure results, as valuable as
possible, the experiments will be repeated
many times. BY taking number of sub
jects DIR. Wiley will eliminate individual
idiosyncracy and accident obtaining a
mean result more valuable than could be
obtained from any one person alone Each
of the adultcrants or preservatiyes will
command the doctors attention for from
four to six months, some for longer and
others for shorter time, perhaps.
Disturbances of digestion lasting for
two or three days will probably result, but
nothing of serious character" said the
doctor, speaking of the observation period
But in no case will it be the intention to
push experiments SO far as to make them
prcjudicial to health"
The menagerie is one interesting feature
of the boarding house. Here Dr. Wiley
will TRY it on the dog" in the truly literal
sense fthe word. While the boarders
are undergoing the ordeal of the "obser-
vation period a cage full of dogs and
guinea pigs will be fed with the same sub
stance under observation. In this menag-
erie the doctor says he will push the ex-
periments far beyond what he could do
with human beings. He will feed his dogs
and guinea pigs increasing doses of the
adulterants and preservatives until he pro-
duces on each a pathological condition.
| Then the animals will be choloformed and
the condition carefully studied. But none
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