The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-05-04

had been it's only food for pro-
longed period" said DR.. Joseph E.
Winters. For 80 years DR.. Winters
has been a specialist in the treatment
of children. He is prominent men,
Der of the American Pediatric So
ciety, is consulting physician at the
Demilt dispensary and visiting ply
stefan to the Willard Parker and Riv-
erside hospitals.
Dirty Milk Dangerous.
THAT contaminated, germ-infested
milk can be rendered clean, pure,
suitable food for infants" Dr. Win
tiers continued, ''is unworthy of con-
sideration. Pasteurization does not
render dirty milk clean, stale milk
fresh, nor germs harmless. Pasteur-
ization is a recourse to palm upon a
Icreduious public milk unfit for food.
"Proteid is the vital constituent of
every cell Cell nuclei are rich in
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.
Heat DissOlves Union.
+ Animals for which milk is a suf-
ficient 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 up.
Organic union of mineral and pro-
ted in milk is light and easily dis
solved. Heat dissolves this union.
Pasteurization, therefore, dissolves or
loosens this union. Milk in which
the organic union of mineral and pro-
teid has been dissolved will not sus-
tain 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 recuper-
ability are attributable to the need of
minerals and proteid in organic
union, for the formation of the cells
and the renovation of tissue.
physiological chemistry immut-
able and fixed as the rising of the
sun, interdicts pasteurized milk. And
experimentation also concurs, as ex-
perience demonstrates pasteurized
milk to be ubiquitous. Pasteurized
milk was in practically universal use
among tenement babies during the
summer of 1908, and yet between
June l and July Is the mortality
from diarrheoa among infants under
/ year old was Al per cent higher
than for the corresponding period
of 1907.
In IS summer weeks, from all
causes, the deaths of infants under 1
years old were 1862. Cells half liv-
ing, half dead, invite diseaser. The
zealot of pasteurization is as arbi-
trary to the law of nature, which is
the law of the creator, as is the anar-
chist to the law of government.
Now as to the claim that the pas
teurization of milk is an economy to
the poor as well as a hygienic boon,
the fact is that five six-ounce tubes
sell for cents. whereas an Scent
quart bottle of milk will make at
least three quarts of the diluted mix
ture in these tubes, or more than Is
cents a quart for the whole milk.
Furthermore, with the pasteurized
article there is no rental and no de-
livery 1t would appear, therefore,
that pasteurized milk is neither char
ity nor philanthropy"
"Mournful Little Old Men,"
DR.. Winters views on this subject
were already well defined two years
ago. At that time, in response to an
inquiry addressed to him asking his
opinion of pasteurized milk, DR.. Win
tiers wrote:
Introduction of sterilized milk
was promptly followed by an epidemic
of scurvy-rickets. Pasteurized milk
substitutes a sub-acute form of this
affection, insidious, obscure, equally
pernicious. Rachitic or semi-rachitic
weakly children are inevitable where
pasteurized milk is the exclusive food,
and the reason is obvious"
DR.. Winters here specified the
points already enumerated concern