Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-01-01
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WHITE FLOUR.
Causes Appendicitis-SO
Says a Physician.

are responsible for appendicitis,
according to physician who has
been in the practice Of medicine
for fifty years and who has OBJ
served the spread of the disease
This physician, DR.. II. G.. How
ard, 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 to the facts where coarse
breads are used the disease is I'M
known but rs soon as the bread.
stuffs are introduced appendicitis
comes as Il 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 un-
Til the small mills were crowded
out by the large ones and fine
-four supplanted the coarse. Then
the negroes of the south so long as
they ate corn bread were free from
disease, but when the new process
flour began to be used the disease
came among them. The same re-
suits attended the departure of the
German folks from their coarse
bread to the refined flour.
II can remember that prior to
1875" said DR.. Howard, that
there was little or none of the all
ment among the people. In TWEEN
ty years practice among the peo-
pie before that time | do not think
| saw more than forty cases of APP
pendicitis. Now they are COM
mon. Large and extended
changes in the diet of the people
has contributed to this. For eX-
ample, about the date mentioned
there began to be general change
from the old method of grindin g
grain to the present method of
roller mills and excessively fine
boiling cloths. This plan of mil
ing first began in the large cities,
and appendicitis began to increase
first there. Later the new pro-
cess crowded out the small mills
in the country, and the people
could not get flour made by the
old processes. They bought pro-
duets of the large milling eStab-
lishments, and then the farmers
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 the appendicitis SO it goes.
They did not have the appendicl-
It's in Germany until they began
to eat our fine wheat flour and put
in the new process of milling after
our fashion. And now they have
the appendicitis in Germany just
as we do.
Experienced millers will tell
you that the fine flour is less de-
sirable flour than that made by the
old process, but trade demands it
chiefly on account of its whiteness.
On account of its indigestibility,
the disarrangement of the diges-
tive organs of the people eating it
has greatly increased. The prime
cause of appendicitis is found in
this disarrangement. Quite small
children have it. | know one boy |
who has had l3 well defined attacks
of the disease and came out of all
of them without surgical opera
tons. He changed his food to
corn bread and mush with coarse
breads in general, vegetables, lit
tie meat, and has not had SYM
tom of the disease for three years.
The lack of phosphates in the
food is visible in the people and
have greatly increased
the use of medicine containing
phosphates. 1t is necessity.
Children are brought to me suf-
fering from conditions resulting
from lack of material in their
systems to form their teeth. Ten