The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1909-04-22


cine which pertains especially to the,
hygienic. care OF children and the,
treatment Of their Observation-Disclosures.
to show q lively interest in the al
legged exposure of the fallacies of tnel
pasteurized milk fad = /
"A rosy, plump, lusty child was
never seen where pasteurized milki
had been It's only food for a prof.
longed PERIOD" said DR.. Joseph e.
Winters, OF No. rs West Thirty-sev-I
enth street. For thirty years DR..
Winters has been a specialist In the
treatment Of children. He is a prom-
lnent members OF the American tPe-I
diatr1c Society, is consulting phSsi7
clan al" the ,Demilt Dispensary and
visiting physician to the Willard Par
her and Riverside hospitals.
That contaminated, germ infect
ed milk can be rendered clean, squire,
suitable food for infants" DIR. Win
ters continued, "is unworthy of col,-
s1deration. Pasteurization does not
render dirty milk clean, stale milk
fresh, nor germs harmless. Pasteuri-
cation Is a recourse to palm upon al
credulous public milk unfit for food.
"Proteid is vital constituent @of
every cell. Cell nuclei are rich in
iron. magneisa, phosphorus, lime,
potash and soda. No formation : Of
cells for fresh growth can occur I'M
less these minerals are in organic
union with proteid, as minerals to-
be assimilated must be in organic
union with proteid.
Dissolves the Union. d. ....:
Animals for which milk is a sufi-
cient food die. Of hamilton when the
minerals are extracted. The result, is
the same with the minerals restored
| to the proteid, fat and milk sugar,
the organic union being broken I'D.
| Organic union Of mineral and proteid
in milk Is light and easily, dissolved.
Heat dissolves this union. Pasteuriza-
| ton, therefore, dissolves or loosens
| this union. Milk in which the. or
ganic union, of minerals and proteid
has been dissolved will not sustain
life. Milk in which this union is
partially dissolved half sustains life
Cells In every part of the body are
half living, half dead. This Is the
primary and fundamental cause Of
the excessive death rate in children.
susceptibility to disease, lost recu-
perab1llty are attributable to the
need Of minerals and proteid in or
ganlc union for the formation OF the
cells and the renovation of tissue.
| bile and fixed as the rising Of the sun,
1nterdicts pasteurized milk And ex-
Fermentation also concurs, as ex-
per1ence demonstrates pasteurized
milk to be ihiquitous, Pasteurized
milk was in practically universal
use among tenement babies during
the summer Of 1908, and yet be
| tween June 1 and July Is the NOR
tally from diarrhoea among infants
under one year old was forty-seven
per cent. higher than for the CORE.
spending period of 1907.
I'm thirteen summer weeks, from
all causes. the Deaths Of infants I'M
der one year old were 1862. Cells
half living" half dead, invite tdisas-
ter. The Zealot Of pasteurization is
as arbitrary to the law Of nature,
| which is the law of the Creator, as
is the anarchist to the law of govern
| ment.
| NOW as to the claim that the pas
| teurization Of milk Is an economy to
the poor as we'll as a hygienic boon,
the fact Is that five six ounce tubes
sell for five cents whereas an eight
| cent. quart bottle of milk will make
| at least three quarts Of the diluted
mixture in these tubes, or more than
fifteen cents a quart for whole milk.
Furthermore, with the pasteurized
article there is no rental and no de-
livery. 1t would appear, therefore,
that pasteurized milk Is neither
charity nor philanthropy"
| "MournfuI Little Old Men,"
DR.. Winters view on this subject
were already we'll defined two years
ago. At that time, in response to an
inquiry addressed to him asking his
opinion Of pasteurized milk, DR..
| Winters wrote:
| Introduction Of steriliZed milk
was promptly followed by an epidem-
llc Of scurVy-rickets. PasteuriZed
milk substitutes a sub acute 'form Of
| this affection, insidious, obscure,
| equally perniciOus. Rachitic or semi
rachitic weakly children are inevita-
bic where pasteuriZed milk is the ex-
elusive food, and the reason is OBJ
v1ous."
DR.. Winters here specified the
points already enumerated concern
! ing the necessity of organic union Of
the proteids and minerals for assim-
| ilation and nutrition. He then went
| on:
"The half-starved, rachitic, mourn
| full little old men and women fed on
| pasteurized milk, distributed under
supposedly philanthropic auspices,
are sad examples Of this. Numerous
obscure, unanalyzable, undefnable,
| unrecogniZable, morbid states are en-
| countered in the wake Of pasteurized
| milk-the aggregate expression of
want of proteid and minerals In or
ganic union. 1t is alleged that pas
teurization of milk prevents diarr-
hoea in children and is a cure for
this affection. The worst and most
favourable cases Of this disorder seen
at the Demilt Dispensary during the
summer months are those Of young
infants exclusively fed on pasteurized
milk from the public stations. These
observations have been made by Dr.
Babcock, DR.. Tyrrell and myself for
Years. The children recover on raw