Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1907-02-22
Even nail PIECES
AND CUT HAIR TAKEN
FOR FEDERAL TEST
Nothing Is Wasted in the "Poi
son Squad" Experiments at
Washington.
CHOOSE HIS OWN FOOD
DR.. Wiley Would Have Every Mani
Dieting OptionaI-Sulphur
Makes the Blood
Fade.

Washington. ID. c., Feb. 20.-Among
the things DIR. Wiley told the house
members in his recent report We're:
"A man may drink a glass Of ty-
phoid germs IL he is in vigorous health
and may not get typhoid fever, be7
cause his system may throw off the
poison, but il he is broker down, one
of the germs will produce typhoid. Not
a man but what has a pneumonia germ
in his mouth. 1t will not affect the
healthy being, but let a man get a
cold and it will take it's seat in his
lungs
What do you consider the best
food for a man to eat?" asked Mr.,
Littlefield.
Il think a man ought to choose his
own ration" replied DR.. Wiley.
Lots Of persons are vegetarians. !
thing we eat too much meat for health,
the s~ustenance OF physical exer-
ton If you have hard work to do there
is nothing better than starch or sugar.
The cereal eating nations can endure
more physical toll than the meat eating
nations. That is not the accepted view,
but ii Is true. o canno tire out a
Japanese, who eats rice. He will draw
you all around the town on a pound
of rice, and he will be as fresh at
the close Of the day as when he started
You could not do that on a pound OF
meat TO save your life"
With the Poison Squad.
DR.. Wiley told the the committee of
his boys" in his poison squad"
s.VNHHa 10 tho HPth Nyaarp hn cnil Hthat
we have been testing the effect upon
and digestion OF preservatives,
colors and other substances hat have
been commonly used in our foods.
The young men are first allowed to
wholesome food" he went on. I'VE
buy the best in the market. 1t is care
fully inspected by myself and analysed.
They have a preliminary period during
which we vary the ration, so that they
do not either gain or lose In wSight.
Then we add a small quantity of one
of the preservatives, like borax, adding
half a grain a day to their food. They
eat that for ten days. Then we increase
it to a grain, and they eat that for an
other ten days.
Not a Thing Wasted.
Nothing is wasted. If they trim their
finger nails they have to bring the
to us, or if their hair Is cut
they bring us their hair, SO we can keep
Of the income and outgo, just as
you keep a bank account. In hat way
al determine whether these things
the natural progress of af-
I'VE keep that up until we make them
Ill, until we produce some effect, a dis
turbance Of some kind. Then we put
them on the old ration n observe that
ten or fifteen days, unail they are
restored to their normal condition. This
an enormous amount of ana
lytical work, and yet is the only way
IN which these great questions can be
answered. You car theorize about 1t
as much as o like. but the facts must
ascertained before a inal conclu-
sion.
Effect of Sulphur.
lone of the interesting things we
was the effect OF fumes of burn
Ing sulphur, so commonly used in h
preservation Of foods. We examined
microscopically the blood of each of
young men. We counted the blood
white and red, and the
mount of coloring matter, and we
that the they began to
take sulphurous acid their blood cor
began to fade and became
in number, the oxygen car
wing capacity of the blood being dimin-
she'd"