Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1915-03-17
ARTIFICIAL FEEDING.

lnasmuch as health is the natura
and normal state of mankind,
should not be difficult to preserv
ones health. And it is not. But be
cause health is inherent in us. and be
| cause we are elastic and therefor
tend persistently to revert to the mol
NAL, whatever the provocation, will
very few exceptions we obstinatel.
and fatuously cling to habits and prac
tees certain to impair our physical In
heritance, until some sharp and severe
experience lashes us into conscious
ness Of corporal limitations and com
pels the recognition Of natural laws.
Without exception i'll health, phys
ical debility, sickness and suffering II
general come through repeated viola
tions, either on one'r own part or or
the part of others, of the laws of this
universe, Of which we are a constitu
ent part
Too often irreparable damage IL
done to vital organs before we become
conscious of the breakdown, and then
1t is too late to do anything.
AS a matter of fact the problem oil
life itself can be solved only by the
study Of what takes place in the mi
mute portion of the cell, for 1t Is in
the ''centrasome"-a roundish body
alongside the nucleus of cell that is
undergoing division-that the new for
nation of an individual begins. Re.
member that cells increase by divi.
sion; there is no corpse; each cell
splits into two, indefinitely. We can
not all become cytologists-cell ex-
perts-but we can easily acquire a per.
sonal working knowledge from obser-
walton of any one of the lower organ
isms-such as the chicken, for instance
sufficient for all practical purposes
as safe guide to better things If we
will but open our minds to the truth.
To begin with, we do not know,
here in this country. how many chill.
dren are born annually, because only
few states require birth registration,
and we are therefore unable even to
approximate the percentage Of infants
stillborn as the result of conditions
identical in principle with those that
cause the death Of the chick in the
shell. But we do know from statistics
returned on approximately 60 per cent
Of our population of 100,000,00O that at
least twenty-five per cent of all infants
born die before they reach one year
Of age. In contrast with this condition
we know that II a sitting hen Is given
eggs from the same pens from which
the incubators are supplied and from
which an 80 per cent hatch is consid-
cred highly satisfactory, the hen will,
with but few exceptions, produce
matches approximating 100 per cent.
The mortality in the incubator is in.
significant compared to that which
lakes place among chicks under artifl-
,ial brooding and feeding conditions.
hat is to say, during that period of life
before the chick Is sufficiently mature
% be able to look after its own needs.
II the death of forty to sixty or more
Der cent of a given flock Of chickens
ended the matter we might content
ourselves with the idea that inasmuch
Is each species tends to increase In
the check known always to
,e in action, even though we are not
bile to perceive 1t, which is simply
lature's method Of preserving bal.
nee. must result in an improvement
# the breed But unfortunately, this
8 found not to be true; for invariably
hose survivors of conditions which
'roduce these very heavy mortalities
re themselves SO shattered physically
hat under the same conditions only q
ew generations suffice seriously to de- |
eriorate a fine strain and. If persist
ntly followed, quickly lead to total
Of the line.
On every hand we find these condi.
ions closely paralleled in the human
pecies. Deficient food supply to the
regnant woman gives the same re-
ults following lack Of heat in any
Their incubator, and an excess pro-
uces about the same effect as too
,uch heat in the machine; both inevi.
ably lead to deterioration In the
hid; while artificial feeding is known
, be fully as disastrous to the child as
is so clearly proved to be to the
hick and it's descendants.
The solution is comparatively simple
nd consists in nothing more than
aiming women to have At apprecia-
on OF the obligations of motherhood
nd seriously and conscientiously to
repare to meet the natural demands !