The Muskogee cimeter. [volume] (Muskogee, Indian Territory, Okla.) 1901-19??, 1909-01-08

shall speak later. Grapes, the
brown part Of wheat, cabbage (raw)
and lettuce readily supply iron.
It has been found that persons living
exclusively on milk lack sand" q
quality which the infant never needs
to display. since it is absolutely de.
pendent.
In the infant the liver is relatively
much larger and more active than in
the adult. In a number of cases in
which the results of an exclusive milk
diet were found to be Injurious. the
liver was weak and inactive, as indi.
Gated by sallow skin. jaundiced eyes
and internal indications. In such
cases, as rule. unfermented grape
Juice. pineapples, lemons and oranges
are Indicated. Sweet milk is always
injurious In these cases in adults.
In flesh-eating animals the stomach
and liver are much larger in proper
tion than in the vegetable-eaters An
apparent exception Is found In the
Eliminating animals, like the COW,
which gathers a large quantity Of food
and stores 1t in the first Of a series of
stomachs for future chewing. The de.
velopment Of the food tube indicates
the food adapted to the animal. Al
though the infant digestive organs are
better adapted to milk than the adults,
they are not perfectly adapted to
cows milk. To feed dog or a child
of two years on what we eat our.
q NnA att A,.A
thoughtless disposition.
Sterilized or boiled milk is open to
the same objection as roasted peanuts
Its vitality, its real life-giving quail.
ties are largely destroyed.
1t Is most unfortunate that our peo-
pie are ignorant of the value of goats
milk, especially for infant feeding.
The goat Is the healthiest Of all anil
mails and the slowest to degenerate
when domesticated. Rarely, IL ever,
is the goat known to contract tuber.
culosis or any other disease. The
milk Is superior In every way to cows,
and the poorest can own a poor mans
cow" which can be fed on the potato
peelings, cabbage leaves or anything
else that is clean.
Hardly any other food is compat.
ible with milk, except uncooked,
whipped eggs, rice or toasted bread.
Flesh meat. being stomach food. is
particularly inharmonious with milk.
The Jewish instructions on diet pro.
hibit eating meat and milk together,
though this may be for an ethical
reason.
The writer has recently made sew
eral days tests Of an exclusive milk
diet on himself and others, carefully
recording results. A change from
the ordinary mixed diet to any mon
odiet Is beneficial, and milk Is not
an exception. But the benefits de-
rived from the milk diet which have
recently been much advertised should
be credited to the monodiet, avoiding
the injurious effects of mixing several
incompatible foods at the same meal.
Equally satisfactory results can be
shown from many other monodiets--
even the peanut. which Is the most
concentrated of all foods. containing
an excess of albumen. Great gains
have been recorded from exclusive
diets Of beans, oatmeal, wheat. etc.. as
we'll as milk, pursued for 60 days or
more.
Prof. Metchnikoff, head of the Pas.
teur institute, who has made most
praiseworthy Investigations into the
causes Of our early decay, has con-
cluded that the failure of the average
man to live his natural term of life.
100 years, is due to the development
Of pathogenic germs in the lower part
Of the food tube from improperly d.
gested, superfluous food, and recon-
mends the use of buttermilk g an