Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-07-11

colon bacillus" And there are plenty of
other acute diseases attributable to &C.
casionai rampages of this internal enemy
of ours. among them gastric ulster, gan
stones and dysentary, but FAR greater
number of chronic ailments are known to
depend on absorption of the poisonous
products of the colon bacillus.
Now one might think It would be the
simplest thing in the world to take an
occasional dose of Grandma Perkins In
fallible Herb Tea or Old DR.. kidds Tn
failing Liver Pills and so clean out these
i pesky old age germs and be done with
them But the trouble is they multiply
! faster than you can drive them out-and.
! besides, you can't drive them out, to De
! Irish about it. For instance, forty -odd
/ billion of them might take up quarters In
| the appendix or in the gall sac-without
| starting anything, mind you, but Just
| dwelling there in peace. manufacturing
| toxins-and all the laxatives in America
couldn't dislodge them, Nor would any
lamount of intestinal antiseptic medicines
worry these exclusive bands. If, indeed
| such remedies even annoy the common
/ horde in the canal.
The only thing that worries a colon
bacillus very much is his pabulum. He
| wants his meals regular and frequent
and he likes lots of meat extract. He's
| "a hard worker. this old-age microbe-on
the job about a hours a day-and he
simply must have meat or else he goes
all TO pieces.
| Note. please. that Metchnikoff used
lmeat broth cultures of colon bacillus in
This famous experiments He wanted
good lively bacilli. and, knowing the
habits and tastes of all kinds of germs
from intimate association with them. he
furnished what they liked best-meat ex-
tractives.
In order to demonstrate that tho colon
baclli is very reluctant vegetarian
Metchnikoff took two culture tubes, one
containing chopped meat. the otter vege-
tables only. and inoculated them with
colon baeili He ineubated both tubes
two days Then he injected a few drops
of the vegetable culture into rabbits
The Dummies didn't mind IT at ell. But
when he injected a few drops OF the
meat culture the rabbits promptly turned
up their toes and died Here Is the most
convincing argument, In favor of yese-
tarianism.
The American working man seems to
be a victim of habit and the Bel 'iriis..
His meat three times a day" IN tkcs him
an old man at A..
The sustaining quality of all food ma
terai is computed the basi; of ca
tories or heat-work units. eaiorie is
the amount of heat required to raise the
temperature Of silogram tahout a
quartz of water one degree centisrade, or
the amount of energy required to lift
one ton La feet. \ man doing moderate
work requires at least 1900 calories OF
food energy daily to replace the muscle
tissue burned UP and to supply tie gen.
eral needs of BODY repair. Three thous-
and calories represent the ene-Ey ex-
pended in carrying one and oIe-haf
tons about mile up the mount Tin.
Three pounds of rib beef alone would
furnish the 5000 Galleries; two pounds of
ham would do it, or pound and a quar-
ter of bacon, or four pounds of fowl, or
Is pounds of Goldfish. or eight quarts of
solid oyster meat, or FIVE quarts of milk,
or pound and half of Cheddar cheese,
or less than a pound of butter. or two
pounds of entire wheat bread or one and
three quarters pounds of oatmeal, five
and one-half pounds of baked beans, or
two pounds dried peas, or 10 pounds OF
white potatoes, or 81 pounds muskmelon
or one and three-quarter pounds of pea
nuts.
Experiments and experience show that
| protein or heterogeneous food, of egeta-
BILE origin Is much less susceptible to
colon bacillus putrefaction than animal
protein or meat. and the vegetable pro-
tein is at the same time quite as digesti-
bic il not more digestible. A nickers
worth of peanuts furnishes more and
better working energy than quarter S
| worth of porterhouse steak.
The high cost of living is what we pay
| for a host OF minor ailments, occasional
1 severe Illnesses and premature old age.
| Old age depends largely on the char
| acter of ones own colon bacillus; and
that is determined largely by tie guam
tity of meat consumed.
Ponce de Leon was only So years old
/ when he set out In search of tile foun-
tain OF perpetual youth. You see. ne had
lost his job governing Porto kico and,
L fired at middle life. he worried himself
sick over it and died a few years laler
i from a trifiing wound inflicted by a
poisoned arrow. Juan Ponce de Leon did
not find eternal youth. Ellie Metchnikoff
stayed right at home in his own labora-
tory and found not only the germ that
causes the cold gradations of decay. but
also the germ that opposes the germ that
produces the poisons that harden the ar
i teries that refuse to work for the man
Il with premature senility.-New York
Il World.
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