The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1904-11-11
FOOD pRrsEevArvrs.
Or Wiley Describes Experiments on
Human Beings.

fAhttN0 Ut i-IohefNdiNeS on Health ana I
Digestion was the subject Of lee.
iure delivered here by DR.. rs. " |
Wiley CHIEF Of the bureau Of chemis-
try ir the department Of agriculture. !
For the last two winters Doctor Wiley /
has experimental with class OF
voung mea drawn from the depart
nents in Washington. These men
were boarded free Of charge It being
stipulated they should eat nothing
save that placed before then by Dr
Wiley and his assistants
The experiments which the lectur
er described We're made upon these
men,
Modern civil alton demands .hat
food shall be manufactured and pre-
I served and made moro or loss ready
tor ugo said Dr. Wiley "m these
+ processes FROM the earliest times
well known methods OF preservation
have beer practiced The removal ot|
water from a foo7 product is a meth.
cd OF preservation which has been
practiced IRON the earliest times The
/ use OF certain condimental substances
such as salt. sugar. vinegar and wood
smoke has also been recognized from
the earliest periods of history fer pres
ervatve as well as condmental our
poses.
I'm the last hundred years the ster.
ilization OF food by heating apd the
Z exclusion OF the germs therefrom
have been practioed on large scale.
: and are siill one Of the safest and
I most approved methods Of preserva.
ton.
"Fcr the last fifty years, however.
there has grown up a system of food
? preservation based on the use Of so
called antiseptics: that is, chemical
products which of necessity must be
= colorless and without taste or odor.
Those have the power Of paralyzlng
{ or destroying the fermentlng germs
which cause food to decay It IS this
. class Of preseUatives to which atten.
e dion rs directed at the present tune
e rhe more common of these arc well
4 known, such as toric acid, borsx. rali.
e cylic acid. benx0c acid sulphurous
q acid tornaldehyle. etc.
Concerning the use OF these bodies
G The greatest difference of opinion pre-
d walls Naay manufacturers and d
> numher Of physiologists and chemists
= say sat The use Of these bodies is in
q no way detrimental and that their use
,. should not be restricted.
n "lt was for The purpose OF deter
mining these points Of difference pc
r Ngeer experts that the experimental
2. work Of the department of agrioulrur.
on food and preserpatiyes was under
taken The results Of one series o
oxDenempts OF this kind have beer
q collatcd ana arc almost ready ioc pub
b neation
IN these experiments borax an,
e boric acid were added to food, begin
Is ming with email and gradually increua
! ing 20 lareo doses per day. The small
s. doses were one half gram az grains
Il and the large doses we're from three 4
$. four grams (i5 to 60 grains) per 'las
n These experiments were carried o.
u during a period Of about nine month
and the results. which we're manifest
ig ed, are as follows
IL 'Boric acid and borax in gradual
80 increased loses. With a maximum &
re from three to FIVE grains per la,
r. cause a disturbance Of digestion an
IL health manifested in loss Of appetite
OF loss Of weight, a feeling Of unoas
" ness and sometimes Of illness of tn
IS. stomach q fullness in the head whic
n often developed into a duh and pc
'e sistent headaclie, a general disturb
le ance Of the metabolic functions Of d
~ gcstion and many other disturbance
TX which were Of "a markedly mfavorabl
g character
when ioraA and boric acid are az
- ministered in small doses namel,
n onehalf gram (7@ graIns) per dal
BE- over a long period Of time simila
d- symptoms IN a less acute form are do
re yeloped in the majority Of cases.
u "Borax and boric acid are regardo
v by most experts as the least narnfi
he Of the ansiseplics usually employees
he Whether This Is true view OK n
"a matter or rot remains 10 be determli
"a ed by subsequent experiments H.
d. evident that eating small quanutie
Of borax in food occasionally woul
not prove or any lasting injury to III
re- ordinary citizen in good health, br
N the weak and ieable must be protec