The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-01-10
APPENDIClTlSsDUE
TO WHITE<.FL0UR.
So Declares Physician,<Who Saws
System Of Z Milling Is to
/ &s~>#.< IA. Blame.. -... ..

~ RANGES IN milling processes ar1- re-
sponsible for appendicitis. according
Y to physician who has BEEN in the
~ practice of medicine for fifty 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 re used
the disease Is unk nown, but that as soon
as the f1ne breadstuffs are introduced ap-
pendicitis comes along as 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
supplanted the coarse.
Then the negroes Of the south 50 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 -four.
Disease Rare Before 1875,
"Ican remember that prior to about 1875"
said Dr.. Howard. THAT there was little or
noue of the alment among the people. In
twenty nve years Of practice among the peo-
pie before that time do not think 1 saw
t-SN
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 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-
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| by the old processes. They bought products
| of the large milling establishments, and
then the farmers began to have appendi-
citia.
! "st1n' the negroes OF the south did NO,
have H., 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 fine white flour am
put In the new process Of milling after on,
fashion. Now they have appendicitis in Ger
many just as we do./
! Dosarranges Digestive Organs.
Experienced millers will tell YOU that The
hne -four Is less desirable: -four than tina
made by the old process, bue the trade de-
| ma nds 1t chiefly on account of Its white
ness. On account Of its indigestibility tn,
disarrangement OF the digestive organs O
the people eating 1t has greatly increased
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this disarrangement.
"Quite small children have It'll know on
boy who has had thirteen well defined at
tacks of the disease and came out OF all o,
\ them without surgical operations. HI
| changed his food to corn bread and musb
Il with coarse breads. in general, vegetables
4 little meat. and some fruit, and he has taker
on flesh and has not had symptom Of the
disease for three, years.
."The lack Of phosphates in the food !!
visible in the people. and physicians iav.
greatly increased 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 !,
their systems to form their teeth. Ten day
| of treatment, giving phosphates. will brin,
relief, and the teeth will begin to grow: The;
| are suffering because the ingenuity Of mel
| and the foolish demands of trade have re
suited In taking from their food the materia
! which nature put in it for their growth,
| The new process which, is held accountabl
Y for disease takes from the grain the phos
pilates chiefly existing in the germ or tn
wheat and just under the bran, and leave
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