The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-08-15
Eat Chalk and
Live Forever
Will Make Us Bigger, stouter
and Stronger, According to
Famous Savants.
Chicago Tribune

Chicago Tribune.)
Munich's famous b~acteriologist, Ru-
dolph Emmerich. and another Ia
nous Munich man. DR.. Loew. hold
that swallowing chalk is an infallible
road to health. They saw that If neo-
pie will add to their food a sprinkline
Of calcium chloride they will grow
bigger, stouter and stronger; they will
resist disease; be always in a good
temper and live so long that they will
die of boredom with life.
Emmerich is professor Of hygiene
and bacteriology in Munich university.
he mas eaten queerer things than
chalk. In 1895 Abdul Hamid sum-
moned him to Constantinople to study
the cholera. and Emmerich ate several
thousand cholera bacilli and inoculat-
ed his blood with other germs. He
survived the ordeal and now claims
that while eating cholera germs is
merely harmless. the daily consump-
o OF a sprinkling OF chalk is cura-
tive and invigorating.
Emmerich and Loew have Just con-
c!uded a series Of experiments to test
the influence Of calcium chloride on
the human body and the bodies of an
imals. They soon discovered that by
feeding young animals on calcium
chloride their growth and weight nay
be amazingly increased.
Their first important experiment was
with a litter Of pigs. They divided
the litter in two. In feeding one-half
OF the litter they added to the food
one gram of calcium chloride for ev-
cry kilogramme Of the piglet's weight.
ina is, they gave to each piglet once
a day a t%housandth Of its weight in
calcium chloride.
The other piglets were fed with ex-
actly the same food as were the be-
chalked piglets. but they got no chalk.
After seven weeks both patches were
weighed. The piglets which had been
chalked up We're found to have in
creased by 1856 per cent, and their
rivals by only seventy-fve per cent.
From this Emmerich inc Loew con-
clude that the normal food given to
animals and man does not contain
enough lime. So they have made ex-
periments with an ailing baby which
had been putting OF weight very
slowly. Considerable quantities Of cal
cium chloride were added to the in
fant's feed every alternate week. and
the weight was each week infinitely
recorded. It was found that in the
weeks when calcium chloride was eat
en- the rate Of growth was one-third
greater than in the weeks when or
binary food was given. Thereupon
calcium chloride was administered
with food every week and the infant
grew more than normally big, strong
and animated.
I nthe need Of the animal body for
lime there is nothing new. The nov
city was in feeding animals with the
chemical in an organic state. German
military statistics show that districts
with water rich in lime salts supply
a larger portion Of conscripts than dis
tricts with soft water. Carnivorous
animals eat the bones Of their victims
merely because meat contains little
lime and they are driven by instinct
rich bones.
The same instinct impels domestic
fowls to peck at stucco walls. Lime
is normally found in large quantities
in bones, lungs and gray substance OF
the brain; but little is found in the
muscles. except in the heart muscles,
which contain four times as much
as their share. The heart and brain,
says Ernnnerich. require lime quite as
i~mperatively as do the bones.
A limerick diet is necessary. but it
is not enough. The chief articles Of
diet, meat. bread. potatoes and fruit
of the apple and pear class are all
poor in lime. Rice, lentils and cher
ries have much lime; ags have very
much lime; egg yolks cabbage, and
strawberries still more lime. But
richest Of all il milk. That is why
milk is the ideal food both for chill
dren and adults.
Even the diet which is richest in
lime. says Emiherich. does mo- contain
enough to cure and to prevent dis
eases. Every ma should. therefore,
eat daily q certain amount Of chem
ically pure calcium chloride.
Emmerich administers the calcium
chloride in two different methods. One
method is a daily dose Of from 1 to
Is grams Of pure c~rystallized calcium
chloride taken as 1t Is. This has a
bitter taste which many dislike. A
safer way IL to dissolve one hundred
grams Of the chloride in 500 grams
Of water and to take thrice daily be-
fore meals q teasponful OF the solu-
ton in coffee, tea OF soup. The bitter
taste IL hardly noticed then. The
other method ID to eat Calcium chlor-
ide bread" Prof. Emmerich has
commissioned a Munich baker to put
this "KAlkbrot" on the market. The
bread u easiiy made. TO every two
pounds q Aour ID added 20 cubic CEN
.tinneter8 Of . ten per cent solution Of
c~ryStAllixed calcium chloride. The
water and salts ordinarily u6ed for