The Detroit times., 1911-06-30
ICE NECESSARY
TO HEALTH

Advice on what to do to keep cool
Is drug on the market these hot
days. Most of II is sane and whole3
some, too, but 1t Is strange to see rel
iterated some "Don'ts," which ara
now out-to-date. The most useless
Don't is that which advises against
drinking ice-water. This warning n
based on two beliefs once generally
held, but now completely disprovedr
The first is that ice in water may
carry into ones system some Dis
ease-causing bacteria; and the $780,
ond, that ice-water is of SO low
temperature compared with the hxr
man body that shock from its u9e
results, which II not inevitably ~
tai, is always dangerous. M
The truth OF this matter Of ICED
drinks has been learned after patient
study of facts. Ice contains over -
per cent less bacteria than the WAFER
on which IL formed. Large perco1sf
tages of mineral matter In soiut10u
are eliminated. and, as DIR; Eugo4o'
II. Porter, Health Commissions O.
New York state says, the Ice ID from
95 per cent TO 98 per cent purer than
the water. After harvesting, natural
ice lies In ice houses from two TO-
four months, before being used Dur
| ing this time, the steady, low tenn
perature kills any bacteria lett u
| the ice when first frozen, so that oc>'
cording to DIR. <. o. Jordan. Profos<
sor OF Bacteriology of Chicago untver-
sity, natural ice stored six to eight
weeks Is purer than city water put
Through sand filters, and many scter-
lists consider II practically sterile
1 No case of disease, caused BY BAG
terra In Ice, has ever been establish
ed. The conclusion OF DIR. H. w. Hill.
Epidemiologist OF the Minnesota
State Board OF Health, IL that natural
! ice neither has caused, nor can Gauss
typhoid and he declines now TO con-.
slider IL as a cause Of epidemic1- *.
! AS to the effects on the human
system of drinking ice-water. here ~
what Americas leading SanitArianp
lDr. VIM. T. Sedgwick, Lecturer on
Public Health, at the Massachusetts
Institute Of Technology, says: <
| 81 am a thorough believer IN n
| wholesomeness and wisdom or
the general use OF ice-water, 80
pecially in countries Ike some
of the United States, which have an
almost tropical climate during .
considerable part of the summer>
The principal physiological e.
feet OF ice-water ID that OF = pow
erful and, when one II habituat-
ed to IL, a most agreeable stimu-
i lua, and I have never seen or
! heard of any good evidence that
this stimulus was harmful 80
II In a noteworthy and signincan<
fact that cracked Ice In now re<
quently taken into the moutn
and, as II were. eaten By many
hospital patients, as well as ~
travellers on shipboard incline
to or recovering from seasicG
ness. This appears to Be done
sometimes to reduce fever, som
times TO reduce fever. somekimoI
10 diminish disagreeable tnc<G
I'm the mouth. and sonetime1
supply an agreeable and h.
less stimulant."
In view OF these Opinions, l1cro
Ino ground for the repeutin 81
! advice TO shun ice-water - -
Tout this satisfying drInk y nee
selfdenial-one without point a.
pose. Al a mild stimnlant -
restores courage and strength O.
: news energy IN both old and
: Land Il n important hat The
become more genere(6 known
the entrance to the (orrid ho11
, dog days.