The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1903-03-12
FLOUR AND APPENDICITIS.
Physicians Say Modern Milling Is
Responsible For Disease.

Changes in milling processes are re-
sponsIDIe for appendicitis, according 10
a physician VINO has been in the prac-
tice of medicine for hGty years, and
VINO has observed the spread of the
disease. This physician, Dr. II. Z.
Howard of Champaign, H., asserts
that until the traue demand for ca
ceedingIy white nour changed the
methous of grinding wheat there was
no appendicitis.
To prove TINS assertion the physician
points to the fact that where coarse
breads are used the disease is UNI
known, but that as soon as the hne
breadStuftS are Introduced appendicl-
It's comes along as a sequence. by this
reasoning ii is shown that the people Of
agricultural communities VINO secured
their flour from small mills did not
have the disease until the small mills
were crowded out by the large ones
+ and fine white flour supplanted the
| coarse. Then the negroes of the south
so long as they ate corn bread were
free from the disease, but when the
| new process flour began to be used
the disease came among them. The
same results attended the departure IF
the German folks from their coarse
| bread to the refined flour
| Il can remember that prior to ABOUT
/ 1910, Stllu LII. I1OWdIuI lHeIG was
little or none of the ailment among the
people. In twenty-five years of prac-
tice among the people before that time
l do not think l saw more than forty
cases of appendicitis. Now they are
| common.
Large and extended change in the
| diet of people has contributed to this.
For example, about the date mentioned
there began to be 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 to
increase first there. Later the new
process crowded out the small mills
in the country, and the people could not
Eget flour 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 began to
get away from their plain corn bread,
and they, too, began to have appended
tbs. So it goes, Thew did not have
appendicitis in Germany until they be-
| gan to eat our fine white flour and put
in the new process of milling after our
| fashion. Now they have appendicitis
in. Germany. just as we do.
Experienced millers will tell you
that the fine flour is a less desirable
flour than that made by the old pro-
cess, but the trade demands it chiefly
on account of its whiteness. On ac-
count of its indigestibility the disar-
rangenent Of the digestive organs OF
the people eating it has greatly In
creased, The prime cause of appended
It's is found in this disarrangement.
Quite small children have it. know
one boy who has had thirteen well-de>
fined attacks of the disease and came
out of all bf them without surgical OPP
erations. He changed his food to corn
bread and mush, with coarse bread in
general, vegetables, little me, and
some fruit, and he has taken o. flesh
and has not had symptom of The dis
ease for three years.-Chicago tribune