The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-07-10
Meat as Medicine
ny JANE EDDINGToN.

| IN tho great meat packing houses or
/ to-day there are chemists and doctor.
who have rescued from portions Of the
animal formerly thrown away extracts
OF many sorts. all of them expensive
and some OF them selling for pheuoue-
| nally high prices. Thyroid glands. SPY
I nal cords. stomach Innings. special func-
/ ton organs Of beasts have all been
made 10 Yield extracts which arc given
1 to human beings for their benefit
However. long before these things
were discovered meat extracts wcre
/ used in Illness, because meat liz pro-
eninently the most stimulating nour-
I !shncnt there liz. Yet AZ such IL has
/ faults as grave as any OF those Of the
artificial stimulants. like alcohol. Its
/ effects are 80 much more insidious thar
! the blame for evil results has been
I placed elsewhere.
There is a strict relation between the
! uick-spoiiing qualities OF meat and its
unwholesome side. AS has been said
it's tenderness is a proof OF the first
step toward Its decomposition.
| Perhaps no one has gono into this
question OF meat as medicine and food
80 thoroughly as \. Gautier In his book
Diet and Dietetics," lie gives the rea-
son for his book By saying: Il have
thought IL useful. then, that the nu-
merous and delicate problems conncctco
with the study of diet. In health or III
sickness. should be examined by a bio
logist and chemist. by the clear anc
penetrating light which our modern
F.! chemical Knowledge throws on these
/ Important questions"
When you get a chemist after a ma
tcrial he finds out what Is really in II:
! there Is no thcorizing. When the b!o-
loGist gets to studying lire as Il goes
down toward death, as well as up from
a vcgcta bic source. We get such a study
Of the effects OF food on X as has never
been.
IL meats arc diseased. of course they
are bad as food and worse as medi-
c!nes for the sick. Gauticr says: The
meat OF animals afflicted with infcc-
tious diseases transmit these dis.
eases II the mouth or digestive tube
OF the person consuming 1t Is not
! healthy. and especially If these meat.
/ are not we'll cooked"
i; Is not actual disease alone. but It
is the same with the flesh OF over
driven animals, those slaughtered in a
state OF fever or madness. They taste
doubtful and cause diarrhoea and some
times proNokes poisoning"
Nenison from deer spen, with long
pursuit has been known To cause death
SO has meat that has been allowed 10
hang or become high" AS you value
your future. have nothing 10 do with
IT, Half poisonous Is Infinitely worse
than wholly so, for in the latter case
| The housewife often thinks 1t best to
dip ii in sour milk or vinegar, or rub
with soda rather than throw away :.
piece OF meat OF which she is reason
ably suspicious. What she ought Ia
do is to bury or burn IL at once or
such Gautier says:
They not only contain very veno-
nous ptomaines, but also toxic albumi-
noids. or toxins, whose action on the
digestive tube causes. sometimes ut the
end OF two or three days only. serious
enteritis. which often proves fatal"
1t is better to be violently sick at the
stomach after eating something as
many eaters are during the rapid meat
spelling season, than to have trouble
which may not develop for two or three
days.
Meats are less dangerous, Gautier
says IL well cooked. Cooking destroys
the spores, germs and various para
sites Which are able to exist on and
in meats and render them unwhole-
some. But in spite OF these disadvan-
tages. cooking, whether by roasting or
by the action of boiling, has also its
disadvantages"
One of the advantages OF raw meat Is
that 1t is diGested three times a quick
~ as cooked or even underdone roasted
beef II is for this reason that raw
meat is given to the sick. Raw meat
is tho food which agrees best with very
delicate stomachs, with the tuberculous,
tabetics. chlorotics, and even with
many children, who are obliged to be
weaned prcmaturely: but 1t is neces-
sary to know how to use and choose 1t
mcthodlcally"
Raw Meat Spheres.-For these raw
meat spheres Gautier says: 1T is ne
cessary to pay attention to the meat or
shecp or OF horse. rather than that OF
the OK. Pigs flesh should be altogether
avoided. as 1t is too firm and NAV
transmit various parasites
Meat intended to be eaten raw should
be deprived of all fat. scraped and re-
duccd to pulp with tho edge of n good
Knife and not chopped. BY scraping
are LETT aside the greater part of tho
tendons. etc" With this. pulp spheres
each about the size of small nut. NAV
be made. without addition, or with sail
or niue cognac, rum, sugar. or the
gravy of cold roast meat These
spheres of meat pulp should be swal-
lowed by tho invalid. without being
chewed
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