Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-13
HUMAN LIFE LONGER
NOW, SAYS CHEMIST
MORE MOTHERS NURSE BABIES
is ONE CAUSE
Outdoor Treatment of Consumption,
Checking of Typhoid and Asep-
tic Methods Of Surgery
Help Longevity

WASHINGTON, Sept. R.-Dr. Harvey
w WILEY. chief of the bureau Of chem
istry of the department of agriculture,
and one of the foremost autnoritles on
pure food in the country, asserts that the
average span of human life Is increasing,
and this afternoon he explained to COZ
RESPONDENT some of the reasons Tor MS
belief. -.
| He based his opinion on facts within ms
| own observation, and ascribed the increase
| of years partly to change In fasnion anu
| partly to the accomplishments or science
| Among the chief factors in prolonging nu-
| man life in the opinion of DR.. Wiley, is
4 the comparatively recent Improvement OF
social ethics which has made 1t fashion
| able again for mothers to nurse their
| babies themselves, with the consequent
| decline in vogue of the numerous "bapy
| foods"
| There are several other reasons why the
human race is tending to longer Ire,
| and Dr. Wiley thinks that they are having
such a potent influence that the time VIII
come when three score years and ten VIII
be the usual and not the exceptional al
lotment to men. Beginning with the I'M
provement in the rearing of small chill
dren, DR.. Wiley said
Fewer Deaths of Infants
among infants years old are not so nu-
merous as they were twenty-five years
ago A baby under 5 years now mas
about twice the chance of living that II
had then. People have learned that artiii-
cial baby foods are not to be compared
for the nourishment of babies to natural
foods. Mothers are now nursing their own
babies to greater extent than they DID
some years ago, and are aoonsnlng artii-
cial baby foods"
The doctor added very seriously:
"It has grown to be fashionable for
mothers to nurse their own babies since
the queen of Spain declared her intention
to nurse the heir.
"F,xcept mothers milk, the only safe
food for babies is pure, certified COW
milk, without any manipulation at all. II
the child is i'll, the milk should be modihed
upon a prescription of a physician so as
TO get the proper amount of fat and other
nutritiye elements. 1t should never be
modified otherwise, except upon pre-
scription; and when l say physician, l
mean q competent physician, not merely
one who is called Doc
"Experiments have shown that when IN
fants are artificially fed the use OF pure,
sweet, fresh milk from healthy cows alone
eliminates that deadly disease known as
summer complaint
Typhoid Fever Cneckeu
another factor in prolonging human
life" continued DIR. Wiley, lis the check
to the ravages of typhoid fever. So sue
cessfully has this dreadful scourge been
checked that in Vienna the deaths from
typhoid fever do not exceed one In 1000
annually. In fact, this disease is almost
unknown in that city. Since 1t is known
that typhoid fever is principally propagat-
ed in water and milk, 1t is certain that the
proper control OF these two great supplies
will rob typhoid fever of it's principal
terrors.
"Another factor adding to the length of
human life is the outdoor treatment
and segregation of consumptives.s Scien-
tific investigation has established the fact
that tuberculosis is an infectious disease.
If the tuberculosis germ can be prevented
from entering the lungs, consumption VIII
be destroyed. The segregation of con-
sumptives taking the germs out of the
street and open air life of the segregated
camp. will save many an invalid from
death"
Progress in surgery. and especially in
asepsis and anti-sepsis. is another cause
for the prolonging of life.
Asepsis the doctor explained, is the
treatment of fresh wounds before germs
collect in them, and anti-sepsis is the
treatment of wounds to destroy the germs
after they have collected. Then he con-
tinued
Better Surgical Operations
..The deaths from inflammation and gan
CREME attending surgical operations are
now almost unknown, and thus thousands
of patients are saved.
.'Still another cause for the increasing
length of human life is in the hygienic
education manifested, not only in the fam
lily, but in the common schools, the high
schools and the universities"
All these forces taken together. DIR.
Wiley says. are saving and prolonging
life A better and more resistent type of
human animal is growing up. All with