The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-01-10
.APPENDICITISgDUE
TO WHITE:FLOUR.
SO Declares Physician.Wh Saws
System of milling Is to
Blame..

.>HANGES In milling processes are re-
~ sponsible for appendicitis. according
10 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 m thods OF grinding wheat there
was no appendicitis.
To prove this assertion the physician points
10 the fact that where coars - breads are used
The disease Is unknown. but that as soon
as the fine breadstuffs are introduced ap-
peudicitis comes along as sequence.
BY this reasoning tt is shown that the peo.
pie OF agricultural communities Who secured
their -four from small mills did not have the
disease until the small mills were crowded
out by the large ones and fine white -four
supplanted the coarse.
Then the negroes OF the south so long as
they ate corn bread were free from the dis
ease. but when the new process flour began
to be used the disease came among them.
The same results attended the departure OF
the German folks from their coarse bread TO
the refined nour.
Disease Rare Before 1875.
az can remember that prior 10 about 1878"
said Dr. Howard. that there was little or
none OF the aiIment among the people. in
twenty-five years OF practice among the peo-
more than forty cases OF appendicitis. I 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 70
be q general change from the old method
OF grinding grain to the present method OF
roller mills ana excessively fne boiling
cloths = This plan or milling began first in
the large cities. and appendicitis began TO
increase INST there Later the new process
crowded out the small mills In the coun-
try. and the people could not get hour made
by the OLD processes. They bought products
OF the large milling establishments. and
then the farmers began to- have append.
citis.
q" Stinrtne- negroes OF the south ala y NOT
have IT,. but In time they began to get away
from their plain corn bread. and they too.
began TO have apper dicitis., So It goes. They
did not have appendicitis IN Germany until
they began to eat our fne white hour and
put IN the new process OF milling after our
fashion. Now they have appendicitis IN Ger.
many Just as we do
DasarransesI Digestive Organs.
!" Experienced nhiiiers will Tell YOU that shx
nne -four Is less desirable -four than that
made by the.o process. bua the trade de-
mands It chiefly on account Of It's WHITE
ness. On account OF It's indigeetibility the
disarrangement OF the digestive orsans of
the people eating Il hos greatly Increased.
The prime cause Of appendicitis Is found sn
this d1sarTangement.
-" Quite small CHILDREN have it!ss1 know on q
boy who has had thirteen well defined at.
lacks Of the disease and came out OF eli of
them without surgical operationaY 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 q symptom Of. the
disease for three years.
|, 1.-THE lack OF phosphates In the food n
visible In the people. and physicians have
greatly increased the use OF medicines CON.
tanning phosphates. 1t Is 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 DAYS
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,
i The new process which Is held accountable
for disease takes from the grain the phos-
pilates chiefly existing in the germ or the
!, wheat and just under the bran. and leaves
QplN,thA staESh. and Glpte0