The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-01-10
APPENDICITISsDUE
TO WHITESFLOUR..
So Declares Physicians.Who Says
System4of Milling Is to
Blames

~ RANGES in milling processes ar9 re- /
sponSibe for appendicitis, according
to 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.. H. c. Howard
of Champaign. ILL.,, asserts that Until the
trade demand for exceedingly white -four
changed the methods OF grinding wheat there
was no appendicitis.
To prove this assertion the physician points
10 the fact that where coarse breads are used
The disease Is -urax nown. but that as soon
as the fine breadstuns are introduced ap-
pendtcitls comes along as a sequence.
BY this reasoning it is shown that the peo-
pie Of agricultural communities who 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 -four
EupplaHted 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 Hour 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 -four
Disease Rare Before 1875
~ can remember that prior to about 1875"
said Dr. Howard. e that there was little or
none of the ailment among the people. IN
twenty-five years of practice among the peo-
pie before that time do not think 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 dale mentioned there began to
be a general change from the old method
Of grinding grain to the present method OF
roller mills and excessively fne 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 coun-
try. and the people could not get -four made
by the old processes. They bought products
/ Of the large milling establishments and
then the farmers began TO have appendl-
citEs.
sim 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 apper dicitis.s So 1t goes. They
/ did. not have appendicitis in Germany until.
they began to eat our fine white flour and
put IN the new process Of milling after our
fashion. Now they have appendicitis in Ger
many just as we do.
D0sarranges Digestive Organs.
Experienced miilers will tell you that the
! Ane -four is less desirable -four than that
made by the old process but the trade de-
| nnands It chiefly on account Of its white
ness. On account of its indigestibIhtya the
| disarra cement Of the digestive organs of
/ the people eating It has greatly increased.
1 The prime cause Of appendicitis Is found in
| this dasarrangement.
Quite small children have II. know one
1 boy who has had thirteen well defined at
tacks of the disease and came out of all of
/ them without surgical operations He
i changed his food to corn bread and musb
/ with coarse breads. in general, vegetables,
/ little meat. and some fruit, and De has taken
on flesh and has not had a symptom OF the
| disease for three years.
The lack Of phosphates IN the food is
| visible in the people, and physicians have
/ greatly incre ased the use of medicines con
/ tanning phosphates. It 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 it for their growth"
/ The new process which is held accountable
| for disease takes from the grain the phos-
| pilates chiefly existing in the germ OF the
J wheat and just under the bran, and leaves
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