The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-05-27
CDR. Thomas l.. Allen in WASHINGTON
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PoSt.)
through the courtesy of DIR. G. w.
Werber of WASHINGTON, l have a copy
of the Post OF Sunday. May 12, CON
tanning Il report of elaborate expert
ments made by Prof. James Rollins
Slonaker of Stanford university. with
rats. which is represented as proving
c~ohrluslNely that man ca" do better
work. intellectually as we'll as physi-
cally, by including flesh meat in his
Diet. h experiments are said to be
"a k~nock-down blow to vegetarian
enthusiasts"
II this conclusion is correct. every
wise man. including myself. will at
once resume the eating of meat as a
part of his daily diet. | am sure
have no prejudice whatever against
flcSh. | am not a vegetarian. have
often directed attention in the Daily
Hints to the benefits of an exclusive
mono'liet of meat. as we'll as of other
monodiets. | have maintained that
an exclusive meat diet, or at least a
diet of meat and bread. would be
much better than the ordinary ex-
cessiNely mixed diet of incompatible
foods.
This is not an argument in favor
OF meat, but against the mixed dict.
which ] believe to be the chief cause
on disease, inefficiencN. and premature
senility in man. And while have
many cases that go to prove this. ex-
p~erimentallY or clinically. 7 have none
n a will serve my purpose better
than this brilliant course of expert
ments by Frof. Slonaker.
Experimental With Mice.
"A rev years l made arrange
ments with h manager of a new
paper at Aurora. H.. to conduct lltst
such a course of experiments with
mice as that reported by Prof. Sion.
ker with rats. the results to he re-
ported in the paper daily, to prove
that Il m%onodiet will give better results
IN working capacity n in longevity
than n mixed diet, whether includ-
ing meat or not, and that those ami
mails fed on an excessively mixed
diet would develop cancer much more
numerously than those fed on various
monodlets. ] regret that the expert
ments We're not carried out as plan
ned. and hope that before long the
receive so weighty an object lesson
as this would be.
| have directed attention to the
experiments made by Prof. Enrich
with mice. reported in McClure's mag
azine, December. 1909. confirming my
ground with regard to the causation
of cancer n the effect of the ex-
cessively mixed diet in general. Prof
Ehrlich found that mice fed ON rice
and other cereals. and particularly
those fed oil rice, exclusively for a
time, recovered from enSrafted can
GERS much more readily than those
fed on a mixed diet. l have also di-
rected attention recently 10 the re-
suits of experiments reported in the
journal of the American Medical as
ISOLATION, showing that mice fed on
one or two articles of food We're
much more resistent to certain poi
sons than those fed on a mixed diet.
Dict Tends to Longevity.
iro1. Slonaker maintains that the
diet that tends to longevity tends also
to efficiency. mental as we'll as physi-
cal. / think this is correct. with GER
tain qualifications. Certainly a diet
that maintains health will tend to
longevity.
In his we'll known work on the
p~rolongation of life. Prof. Metchnitf-
Oft reaches the conclusion. after a
most thorough course of investisa-
ton. that premature senility. which
affects man dcplorably, is due pri-
marily to intestinal putrcfaction
which he would antidote with butter
milk. In support of this conclusion,
he gives the diet Of many noted cases
of longevity. all of whom used milk
as a large part of their dict. none Of
them using flesh meat: but he fails
to note the fact that in every case
only one or two other articles of food
We're used, almost invariably bread.
while he also fails to note that the
most remarkable case of longevity of
which we have readable records. that
of the Italian nohleman who lived
more than sixty years after physicians
told him he nus die. by adopting an
almost exclusive diet of unfermented
wine and eggs-an argument not i'm
favor of wine or eggs or against but