The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-06-09
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Richmond physicians and other To-
cal people interested in the study of
foods are greatly interested in reply
recently made to Dr.. J. N. Hurry,
through the columns of the Indianapo-
lis Star, by Edgar Tiff OF this city.
This reply. in full. is as follows:
Edward Westermarck, in his valu-
able History of Human Marriage"
says the concealment of truth is the
only indecorum known to science" A
lover of truth may well wish that DR..
J. N. Hurry, secretary OF the State
Board of Health. would take this as
his motto and stick to It.
| DIR. Hurry in his last decretal says
that Prof. Metchnikoff condemns the
eating of flesh and Endorses vegetar-
ianism. l have read Metchnikoff's
Mature of Man" and THE Prolonga-
ton OF Life" and find no such doc
| trines set forth Metchnikoff, in
speaking of the eighteenth century
health cranks, quotes the doctrine
from Prof Hufeland, a German of the
early time. but he does not give it his
Endorsement. He also reviews the
various fads for preventing old age
and restoring youth, particularly
speaking of that envious Old Tesla
ment treatment for old men, but none
of which does he indorse.
DIR. Hurry further says that Metch-
nikoff asserts that man can never
hope for prolongation of life until
alcohol, meat, flesh-pots, coffee, tea,
lco oh al
# do not deny that the illustrious
Russian scientist may have said this.
only say that in all of his works
have never seen such statement,
and that it is absolutely contrary to
the conclusions he sums up in all of
his books which l have read
Metchnikoff, on the contrary, in
speaking of the prolongation of hui
man life, says: ANY factor to which
long life has been attributed dis.
appears when many cases are examin.
ed. :. There is something un.
known which tends to long life
+. Long life is something in.
trinsic in the constitution. something
which can not be defined and which
must be set down to inheritance" He
then presents great many cases OF
men and women who lived to the ages
of 102, 104, 112. 40 and even 40, who
drank coffee in enormous quantities
! or imbibed alcoholic drinks regularly
and deeply. or who smoked constantly
all their lives. In the town of Chailly
he says, there were twenty old men
out of 52S Inhabitants who had been
. great drinkers all their lives.
! Metchnikoff is true scientist be
, cause he does not conceal the truth
To conceal the truth to support a the
DRY is a grave indecorum. 1t may be
immoral
: Now, as to mans natural food.
: What is It? 1t is myth. There il
no such thing. Looking over mans
history we find that he ate what he
could get. He found no bill of fare
J and no guide as to what was good OF
, what was bad. Sometimes he founs
roots or nuts or berries or fruits OF
meats, and sometimes men ate each
other or ate up the useless old men
1t is lamentable that most OF the his
I tories OF the earthly habitation have
, been nothing but adulations of kings
and human butchers. The monument,
of Egypt. the clay tablets OF Babylonis
and Nineveh dwell so much upon the
glory and greatness of the kingly
scourges OF their time. II we had only
, intimate views OF the lives of the
plain working people how it would
help us out in our researches. Man
had TO find his food and learn by ex
: Iperience what was good or bad; and
lyet. says Prof. Henry Smith William,
In his History OF Science" the ami
NAL system possesses marvellous pow
ers Of adaptation. and there is perhap.
hardy any poisonous vegetable which
Imam might not haxA Learned to eai