The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1907-02-21
Nail PIECES q G
and Cut HAIR TAKEN
FOR FEDERAL TEST
Nothing IS Wasted in the HPoi,
son Squad Experiments at
Washington.
CHOOSE HIS W FOOD
Or. Wiley Would Have Every Mant
Dieting observation-disclosures
Makes the Blood
Fade.

Washington, d. c., Feb. 20.-Among
the things DR.. Wiley told the house
members In his recent report were:
"A man may drink a glass Of ty-
phoid germs IL he is In vigorous health
and may not get typhoid fever, be-
aus his system may throw off the
poison, but IT. he is broken down, one
OF the germs will produce typhoid. Not
u man but what has a pneumonia germ
in his mouth. It will not affect the
healthy being, but let a man get a
cold and it will take its seat in his
lungs"
What do you consider the best
food for a man to. cal 2. asked Mr..
Littlefeld.
II 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.
For the sustenance Of physical exer-
ton IL you have ard 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 lot h accepted view,
but 1t is true. You cannot tire out q
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
This is the fifth year." he said, that
we have been testing the effect upon
health and digestion Of preseryauyes.
colors and other substances that have
been commonly used in our foods.
THE young mel are first allowed to
eat wholesome food" he went On. I'VE
buy the best in the market. 1t is care
fully inspected by myself and analysed.
They lave a preliminary period during
which we vary the ration, SO that they
do not either gain or lose in weight.
Then we add a small quantity Of one
of the pr%eservatives, like borax, adding
half a grain a day to their food. They
eat that for ten days. Then we increase
1t 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
trimmings to us, or IL their hair Is cut
they bring US their hair, Sc we can keep
track Of the income and outgo. just as
you keep a bank account. In that wa
we can determine whether these things
disturb the natural progress Of af-
fairs.
W. keep thai 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 and observe that
for ten or fifteen days, unail they are
restored to their normal condition. This
requires an enormous amount of ana
lytical work, and yet is the only way
In which these great questions a be
answered. You can theorize abou 1t
as much as you like. but the facts must
be ascertained before q final conclu-
sion.
Effect Of Sulphur.
zone of the interesting things we
found was the effect Of fumes of burn
ing sulphur, SO commonly used in the
preservation of foods. We examined
microscopically the blood Of each OF
our young men. We counted the blood
corpuscles, white and red, and the
amount of coloring matter, and we
found that the m they began to
take sulphurous acid their blood cor
puscles began to fade and became
diminished in number, the Oxygen car
rying capacity Of the blood being dimin-
ished."