Omaha daily bee., 1903-01-11
APPENDICITIS DUE
TO WHITE.FLoUR.
So Declares Physician. Who Says
System Of Milling Is to
Blame.

>HANGES IN milling processes are re-
sponsible for appendicitis, according
10 a physician who has been in the
practice Of medicine for nifty years
and who has observed the spread OF the
disease. This physician. DR.. II. c. Howard
OF Champaign, ILL.,, asserts that until the
trade demand for exceedingly white four
changed the methods OF grinding wheatthere
was no appendicitis.
To prove this assertion the physician points
10 the fact that where coarse breads arc USED
the disease 10 unk but that as soon
as the fine breadstufs are introduced aD-
pendicitis comes along as q sequence.
BY this reasoning II 10 shown that the peo-
pie Of agricultural communities who secured
their flour from small mills did not nave the
disease until the small mills we're rowde
out by the large ones and n white nour
supplanted the coarse.
Then the negroes OF the south so long az
they ate corn bread were free from the ois-
ease, but when the new process four began
to be used the disease came among them.
The same results attended the departure Of
the German folks from thesr coarse bread TO
the refined nour. 20.
Disease Rare Before 1875
~ can remember THAI prior to about 1875"
said DR.. Howard. " that there was little or
none OF the ailment among the people In
twenty. nve years OF practice among the peo-
pie before that time 4 do not think l saw
more than forty cases OF appendicitis, Now
they are common.
Large and extended changes In the diet
OF people has contributed to this. For exam
pie, about the date mentioned there began TO
be q general change from the old method
Of grinding grain to the present method OF
roller mills and excessively hne boiling
cloths. This plan or milling began first In
the large cities. and appendicitis began to
increase first there, Later the. new process
crowded out the mail mills In the coun.
try. and the people could not get -four made
by the old processes. They bought products
pf the large milling establishments, and
then the farmers began to have appendi-
citb.
18TH the negroes OF the south old not
have H., but In time they began to get away
from their plain corn bread, and they, too,
began TO have apper dicitis., 80 1t 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 appendicitis in Ger
many just as we do.
D~csarranges Digestive Organs.
"ExperIeneed miliers will tell you that the
hne -four is a less desirable. -four than that
made by the'old process, but the trade de-
mandS II chiefly or account OF its white
ness. On account of its indiCestIb!htY the
d-isarrsngeTnent OF the digestive organs of
the people eating Il has greatly Increased.
The prime cause OF appendicitis 10 found In
this d"dsarrangement.
"Quite small children have Il. i know one
boy who has had thirteen well defined at
lacks OF the disease and came out OF all Of
them without surgical operations. He
changed his food to corn bread and mush,
with coarse breads in general. Vegetables,
little meat. and some fruit, and ne has taken
on flesh and has not had a symptom Of the
disease for three years. r'~ @-
THE lack of ~phosphates in the food Is
visible In the people, and physicians have
greatly increased the use OF medicines con.
tanning phosphates. It is a necessity. Chill
dren are brought to me suffering from con-
ditions resulting from a lack OF material in
their systems to form their teeth. Ten dave
| Of treatment, giving ~phosphates. will bring
| relief, and the teeth Will begin to grow. They
are suffering because the ingenuity OF men
and the foolish demands OF trade have re-
suited in taking from their food the material
which nature put In II FOR their growth"
The new process whichis held accountable
for disease takes from the grain the phos-
pilates chiefly existing in the germ or the
J wheat and just under the bran, and leaves
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