The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-11
.APPENDICETISsDUE
 TO WHTTEaFEOUR.
So- Declares Physician. WhoESays1 System3offMilling Is to
 Blame..

h h@ RANGES iS riltlihgsprooesses are re-
 IA sponsibie' for appendicitis, according
 fX )to physician who has been in the -xIeNzsek practice of medicine for. fifty years ..ts and who has observed the spread of tho disease. This physician. Dr. IL C. Howard = l of Champaign. H., asserts that until the v trade demand for exceedingly white flour !, changed the methods of grinding wheat there was no appendicitis,
 a To provo this assertion [ hc physician points 10 the fact that where coarse breads TO used o the disease tS unaS nown.s but that as soon. as tho fine brsadstuffs arc introduced ap-j 6 pendicitis comes along as sequence. . Ior By thls reasoning it Is shown that the peo-i . pie Of agricultural communities who secured k l their flour from small mills did not have the . dtseaSe until the small mills were crowded D | out by the large ones and fine white four l supplanted the coarse
 ~, Then the negroes of the south so long as II Ifthey ate corn bread were free from the dis-i
 I ease, but when the new process flour began ! to be used the disease came among them. n The same results attended the departure of Q the German folks from their coarse bread to . the refped four.
 I Disease, Rare Before 1875.
 M "Ican remember that prior to about 1s75 T 1. Il said pr. Howard. that there was little or
 l none of the ament among the people. In n \ twenty five years of practice among the peo-
 J pie before that time l do not think saw
 more than forty cases of appendicitis Now
 I they arc common.
 <l "Large and extended changes in the diet T of people has contributed to this. For exam .. pie, about the date mentioned there began 10 Y be @ general change from the old method Q sIi of grinding grain to the present method of A | roller smlls q and excessively finc boiling . cloths.A This plan of milling began first in the large cities. and appendicitis began 10 a l Increase first there. Later the now process
 crowded out the small mills in the coun-
 Al .9. 0 by the old processes. They bought products . T of the large milling establishments, and a then the farmers began to have appendi- n citis. t-. s K "Stll, the- negroes Of the rsoutr1dld rnot . have 1t, but in time they began to get away T. l. from their plain corn bread. and they too.
 T began to have apper Gicitis.i So 1t goes. They a did not have appe1dicitis in Germany until they began to eat our fine white flour and d put in the new process of milling after our t fashion,. Now they have appendicitis in Ger. 0 many just as we do.r III Dasarranges Digestive Organs. { :" Experienced nniilers will tell you that tho ij hne -four Is less desirable -four than that ,j made by the. old process. but the trade de- ,J mands 1t chiefly on account of its whfte-
 ness v On account of its indgestbiltty the 4 disarrangement of the digestive organs of
 the people eating 1t has greatly increased.
 The prime cause of appendicitis is found in
 this disarTangement.'
 10 fas" Quite small children have it.s1 know on .s boy who has had thirteen well defined at- tacks of the disease and came out of an of
 them without surgical ? operations. K He
 lchanGed his food to corn bread and mush
 with coarse breads in general, vegetables -<I little meat. and some fruit, and he has taken }, on flesh and has not had a symptom of the U disease for three years.
 2 l. ,"The lack. of phosphates in the food is II visible in the people, and physicians have
 T greatly increased the use of medicines con . tainjng phosphates. It is necessity. Chll- . dren are brought 10 me suffering from con , |, dtlons resulting from 2 lack of material in I their systems 10 form their teeth. Ten days of treatment giving phosphates will bring T relief, and the teeth will begin to grow They I are suffering because the ingenuity of men and the foolish demands of trade have re- , l suited In taking from their food tho material
 which nature put in 1t Tor their growth"
 II.lse new process which is held accountable <aH Y6f 2dseaee takes from the grain the phos- sElsphates chiefly existing in the germ or the . wheat and just under the bran, and leaves
 onlN.the 6tarch and glptSns