The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-01-07

Physicians particularly those who
made specially Of studying the diet
began to look into the matter. AS
Il result, many of their patrons suffer.
ing from Indigestion, liver and kidney
troubles we're advised to form the
buttermilk habit. The quantity usual
ly depended on the case, but quart
could always be easily taken in a day,
and oftentimes much more. The but.
termilk doctors also suggested that
their women patients drop into some
buttermilk depot when in town shop
ping and take a glass of buttermilk
in place of ice cream soda or similar
drinks, claiming that its action is at
once refreshing and invigorating to a
woman's tired nerves.
ButtermiIkers are Mostly Men.
But Boston's buttermilk adherents
are as yet largely men.
The seasoned buttermilker takes
several glasses a day. and when he
goes home will take as many more be-
fore retiring.
1t Is not unusual for a Boston no.
tel, restaurant or drug store to run
short of buttermilk
| In the suburbs there is a steadily
growing increase in its sale, and the
best dairy men have their regular
household customers who take at least
quart Of buttermilk a day and us.
ually more.
While the call for buttermilk is
much larger in the summer, for 1t sure
ly quenChes thirst, the seasoned but
| termilktaker drinks it the year round.
One of Boston's buttermilk enthusi-
asts is DR.. N. G.. Davis of Dorchester,
who has this to say regarding butter
milk and the benefit derived from but
termilk drinking:
"Buttermilk is formed by the action
of certain bacteria, or microbes, which
break up the sugar in milk into the
substance known as Tactic acid. The
peculiar taste characteristic to sour
milk is due to this Tactic acid.
There are. however, $50 varieties of
Tactic acid bacilli. Therefore, it Is
quite necessary that great deal of
experimenting should have been done
In order to find the special form that
will give the best buttermilk and be
of advantage in treating disease"
Doctor Davis not only advises one
| to form the buttermilk habit but he
| practices what he breaches, having TAX
en- buttermilk faithfully himself every
| day for year. He says that while
formerly subject to a severe form Of
| headache, he has found a complete
cure by the taking of buttermilk.
Last Blow to the Doubter.
The genuine buttermilker will refer
! you to a recent number of the New
York Medical Journal, containing an
| article by Haven Emerson, M. D., in
which he says that the use of butter
milk is based on three distinct pro.
perties:
First, that pathogenic bacteria do
not thrive in medium that has a
marked degree of Tactic acid such as
! buttermilk. Second, that the process
of carbohydrate and proteid disinteg-
ration occurring in the souring of milk
makes a softer and more digestible
| and smaller curd and a resulting food
in state of partial digestion. Third
| Tactic acid bacteria as they occur in
buttermilk activates peptic secretion
and digestion. 1t is useful in the feed
! ing of invalids or Of infants who are
suffering from a disordered digestive
process. It's use has been proved val
liable in the dietary treatment of pull
monary tuberculosis, and in the modi-
| I'D &C.. .,1c,
infants be well or ill.,"
| If the doubter be not foored by
these facts he may be convinced by
the statement that business man in
Boston and another in Charlestown
claim they have been entirely cured
Of Bright's disease by buttermilk.
In Germany buttermilk is largely
used as a remedy for various diseases.
One eminent physician claims that the
bacteria of diphtheria, typhoid and
tuberculosis perish spontaneously in
buttermilk. He also says that but
termilk is one of the best dietetic rem
edies of gasto-intestinal diseases Of
children.
The old way Of making buttermilk
| III Iiie udlly was W dllO" Hllih W SOuI
before pouring it into churns After
churning the butter fat was removed
and that left behind was termed but
termilk.
According to the new method of
making buttermilk, cream which has
lost some Of it's former sweetness is
used. This is pasteurized and placed
in the churn after having been ex-
posed to a certain temperature. When
it leaves the churn it contains Tactic
| acid only, all other microbes having
| been destroyed.
Northwest Weddings.
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