Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1915-12-07
Milk the Most Wonderful Drink.

| MIX IS sucn well-stuoleu beverage
so necessary to infants and the surviva
of the human race, 80 liked and enjoye'
as drink, that 1t might be we'll suppos
} ed that nothing new could be learnet
about 1t. This, however, is not true
knowledge gathered almost every da.
proves that, while, In q general sense
there may be. nothing new under The
sun, there Is in detail an abundance o
unknown facts yet to be brought Il
light.
Milk, for instance, Is now used by th'
Allies to stimulate all of their soldiers
before they 60 into battle. The leu
tons serve their men with beer, but th'
Allies on the western front, thanks tt
the discovery of the chemical psycholog
ical division of the Pasteur Institute ir
Paris, have found that milk is not only
helpful food but one of the most power
full stimulants known.
The way this discovery was made, like
most great discoveries, was in part acci
dental and in part deliberate. A large
number of puppies, 125 to be precise,
were under experiment with various
drugs, the purpose of which was to find
the relative differences between them in
the way of improving the ability OF the
animals to work miniature treadmill.
All the well. known medicines, such as
caffeine, strychnine, digitalis, quinine,
| and a long list of drugs were inoculated
into the young creatures, and their ener-
gy, power, endurance, and strength
were measured in accordance with the
speed, time, fatigue, respiration, and
heart beat. The puppies thus tested
were found to exhibit varying degrees
of vitality and strength under the infiu-
ence of the drugs given, but were sooner
or later more exhausted after burst OF
Herculean strength, artiticially pro-
duced, than when left to themselves.
After each training exercise and ex-
pertinent, the investigators were accus-
toned to reward the little tired crea-
lures by giving them different foods,
such as sugar, beef-juice, milk-toast,
milk, and candies. This soon put the
doggies on their feet again and they
were put back into their comfortable
quarters to sleep, rest, and be ready for
the next days research.
One of the Investigators one day OBJ
served that three of the puppies that
seemed to have an instructive dislike to
meat broth, candies, and bread, had
been, consequently, fed almost exclu-
sivey upon cows milk, seemed to be
growing faster and also to be more ac-
tive and muscular and less given to fall
ing Immediately to sleep than the 9TH
ers. He called his colleagues attention
to this. At first they were loath to at
tribute the superior energy of these
three puppies to the milk. DR.. kam-
band, therefore, determined to secretly
give half Of the dogs-60 to be exact-a
half saucer of milk before they were
placed on the miniature treadmills.
There was much amazement when the
entire corps of experimenters watched
the records that day. The puppies,
which had been given the milk, per-
formed their work with dash and form
three times greater than the other sixty
odd puppies, were less exhausted and
more playful after their work, and did
this irrespective of the particular drug
which was given them beforehand.
Moreover, it was found from that time
on that the puppies were more attentive
and alert when put to their tasks. All
of the dogs were tried in this way and it
was found beyond peradventure that
milk showed slowing of the pulse,
strengthened the heart and muscles,
toned up the whole animal, and acted as
an undoubted stimulant of the most ETH
cient type. :,
When beer, claret, white wine, and
other liquors were tried upon these
baby dogs, not only we're they not stmu-
lated, but they were found to become
dull, sluggish, and literally "dogged' in
their work. The pulse and respiration
went fast and outwardly deceived as If it
were stimulating them. As matter OF
fact, 1t could be seen on the charts that
they were weak and not living up to
past performances.
Upon the publication of these results,
the military authorities Of Paris and
London published their new anti alcohol
laws. Absinthe is to be used to make
high explosives and October 10th was
set as the last day for treating in Eng
land.
Milk itself has now been found to have
all the qualities of true elixir OF lie.
IL contains sugar, mineral oils and fats,
albumens, starches, and water. These
are all the foods necessary to man. Now
it is also seen to contain some mystic
rious and magic power of not only whip
ping up the living tissues, but holding
them pleasantly to the task without the
subsequent reaction and collapse 30 US
ual with strychnine, quinine, ergot, and
other artificial stimulants.
Furthermore, drugs are prone to set
up bad habits and also to send up blood
pressure to varying degrees, whereas
milk is vital tonic, an essential food,
and the sort of tonic that leaves not
the slightest trace of harm behind. The
French government, realizing this, has
ordered all cafe proprietors to push
the sale of milk as a beverage superior
to coffee, tea, cocoa, and all the popular
soft drinks,-Dr. l.. K. Hirsbberg, Mary