The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1915-03-12
MALT AND MILK.


1t is perfectly obvious that the Ill
innate source OF milk in all mammals
must res. on the food intake. Conse-
quently, wherever q mother suffering
from deficient milk supply seeks,
from those qualified to advise. infor
nation as to how she may correct the
unfortunate condition. she is invariar
ably recommended to use a more nu-
tritious diet In other words, she Is
Informed indirectly that the feed she
has habitually used Is deficient In
some important particular.
Almost without exception, the diet
recommended to a mother includes
some form of malt.
The word malt is believed to be de-
rived from a Sanscrit word meaning
soft. and having reference to the
fact that malt is raw grain made soft
or tender by process in which germ
ination has been caused to proceed to
a certain stage and is then controlled
and checked by the gradual removal
of the water and finally completely ar
rested by drying through the applica"
ton of heat in kilns.
During this limited termination en-
zymes are developed and the constit-
uents of the grain are so modified that
the finished malt differs from the orig
inal raw grain in that the greater
portion is split into simpler COM
pounds that more easily dissolve. An
engine is a complex organic sub
stance. or an unorganized or chemical
ferment. capable of effecting by ca
talytic action the transformation. split
ting up or digestion of other COM
pounds.
The changes effected by the partial
termination and subsequent treatment
of the grain are chiefly the Conversion
of the heterogeneous substances into d.
astase, the conversion of the starch
into grape sugar by the action OF the
diastase, and the imparting OF color
and flavor to the malt in the Kiln,
Diastase is an engine of great physi-
illogical importance in that 1t Is capa'
BILE of converting starch and glycoge1
into sugar principally maltose) and
dextrins 1t occurs in terminating
seeds, in the leaves and in other
parts of plants and also in various AMI
NAL secretions, such as the saliva and
the pancreatic Juice.
A very common medical preparation
in the form of strip of about the
consistency of heavy molasses Ii
made by digesting sprouting malt II
water. expressing the solution, pre-
| cipitating It with alcohol and drying
the precipitate
Two new words nave recently beef
added to our neutrality-suspicious.
by Startling in 1906, and ''vitamines." b,
Funk in 1912. Investigations conductet
since 1889 have fully demonstrated
that some OF our ductless glands plal
a role If vast Importance in genera
nutrition, and this knowledge hal
proved very useful in widening ou
conception of the nutritional relation
in the body The conception that Ger
tain glandular organs may give ris'
to chemical products which on enter
ing the circulation influence the activ
! ity of one or more other organs 1
finding application In the study o
the digestive secretions.
The gastric and pancreatic "secre
tions" are regarded as examples of in
ternal secretions. Chemical product
of this kind which stimulate the &C
tivity of special organs are what Sta,
ling designates hormones.
Following a long series of investiga
lions into the causes of beri-ber' an
similar diseases, Funk In 1912 isc
lated some highly complex nitrogen
GUS bodies from the grindings fror
rice, from seeds. whole grains. ray
milk, fresh meat, yeast. fresh frui
juices, the yolk Of egg and the like
Because these compounds we're nitro
genous and proved to be absolutel
essential to organic life-the absenc
OF them is demonstrated to be tn
cause OF death from polyneuritis-
Funk named them "vitamines.'
The vitamines are soluble in waite
and are destroyed by exposure for tie
to twenty minutes to temperature {
24S to go degrees Fahrenheit and b
extreme dryness. SO far as is know
animals are incapable of making Wit
mines; formally they are found
plants, and especially In their seed
and in animals that eat fresh veget
Bile matter containing vitamines. Fun
regards vitamines as the mother su
stance of ferments and the hormone
and OF vital Importance to the thyrol
: and other ductless glands; cons
quently. they are fundamentally II
regulators OF the general co-ordin
ton of our bodies.
Obviously this all points to re
son for the effectiveness of malt {
, milk secretion and opens wide Il
question of nutrition In general
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