Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1909-08-07


by 1t the confidence and highest es
TEEN of both bench and bar.
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The traction companies do about ms
they like. They run over people. kill
people. kill horses and ruin teams and
nothing Is ever done to them.
People who are bowling for an In.
come tax will change their tune II
they get one. The rich will escape
as usual. by perjury, while the poor
will have to pay.
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The beautiful trip to Milwaukee on
the great whaleback. Christopher Co.
lumbus. is a proper way to enjoy
yourself these hot days.
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Pellagra Ia not tropical malady"
as claimed. 1t is a bad food and filth
disease. and shows lack of proper
nutrition. This outbreak at Dunning
should be investigated.
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Il was delighted to see In the Her.
aid this morning the editorial ON
The Sterilization Fad 1t was time.
ly, eminently sensible and full Of
meat" said br. Louis Fisher. THE
Herald has properly characterized
this medical craze for sterilization
and pasteurization as precisely wha,
II is-a fad, and It is one concern.
ing which there Is much misunder.
standing and no little misrepresenta'
ton"
DR.. Fisher Is a recognized authority
Of high standing on the subject. He
II a fellow Of the New York Academy
Of Medicine, q visiting physician 70
the Willard Parker and Riverside
hospitals, former instructor In the
diseases OF children In the New Yor!;
rost-Graduate Medical School and
Hospital and the author OF standard
treatise on the diseases OF infancy
and childhood.
"The fact u.s." Or. Fisher continued,
"men who have made careful study
OF the subject are coming to recog.
nize more fully the fact tina. stcrili.
zation and pasteurizatlon OF milk, IN
stead OF being cure all, as MANY
physicians and others would have US
think, Is really an additional evil. In
my hospital practice uniformly use
the raw milk, merely modifying ~
dilmting It to such degree as 70
adapt It TO the assimila.ive capacity
of the child under treatment.
ION the question Of sterilized milk
the weight OF evidence seems t.
show that the process, while prevent
Ing undue fermentation, so changes
certain OF the natural ferments and
some OF the fats that the milk Is lose
easily digestcd and less nutritious
The sterilization OF milk Is advocated
chiefly to destroy pathogeric bac
terra. The profession has been Ell
ucated to the belief that We must
XIII all living micro-organisms in food
| Sentiment Has Changed.
"When the method WIS first advo
Gated the profession adopted II In AL
parts OF the world. 30 that thousands
OF babies have been brought up on
sterillzed milk. Within the last few
years sentiment has CHANGED. S'er
ilizat'on accomplishes the destruction
OF pathogenic bacteria, but 1t also
possesses certsin disadvantages, and
II must be constantly horne In mind
that the spores OF pathogen'c bac'
terra cannot be DESTROYED by the or
binary process of sterilization.
1--WE know now that great many
children fed on sterilized milk d.
velop scurvy. The same Is true OF
children fed on boiled milk. II Is
evident that children require pics
phatic and ferric proteids in a Nv
Ing form, which are only contained
in raw milk. In my own practice '
have so frequently been disappointed
in the use OF sterilized milk that
within the last few years l have en-
tirelv discontinued Its use.
"What have said OF sterilized
milk applies In lesser degree to pas
teurized milk. ] have frequently found
cases OF infants fed on pasteurlzei
milk that showed the same symD
toms. though In milder degree
than what we know to be true Nf
sterllized milk feeding.
I'm applying the principle OF in
FAINT feeding the first thing to do Is
to initiate nature. That means to give
10 the baby Just what nature has or
dained for It to receive-raw milk.
Since clinical experience has demon
strated that the PROLONGED use OF
sterilized milk and boiled milk will
produce scurvy. and that improve
ment is Immediately noted when raw
milk Is given or raw beef Juice, dcNs
It not seem more plausible to com