Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-10

phosphate, either acetate or carbon
ate, magnesium phosphate, liquids of
the lectithin group, nitrogen COM
pounds, such as histidin, aspharagin,
and various amino acids elaborated
in the digestion of meat, eggs, cheese,
etc., potassium iodine, thyroid ex-
tracts. Romans salt mixture, cot
ton oil, egg albumen or any COM
bination of these substances"
The failure of vitamines, when con-
other food elements necessary to nor
NAL nutrition, to perform the miracle
OF sustaining normal life and health
requires little demonstration.
These vitamines, some of which, as
isolated by Casimir Funk, are COM
plicated chemical compounds occur
ring as colorless needle-shaped crys-
tails with melting point of 451 de-
grees Fahrenheit, when added to q
diet of sugary and starchy foods, will
not maintain life, although sugar and
starch are rated among the very high
est of the high calorie' foods, and
therefore are looked upon by mistaken
scientists as the most important of
all foods.
In fact, however high the calories,
or however abundant the vitamines,
unless the other food elements, so
wantonly destroyed by food refine
ment, are present the body cannot
make proper use or them.
The experiments of Voegtlin, and
Towels with foods of high calorie"
value deprived of their mineral con-
tent demonstrate the inadequacy of
the calorie theory.
These Investigators found that IAN
aqueous extract of autolyzed spinal
cord from which the coagulable pro-
tein has been removed contains Vita
mines or anti-neuritic substances
which cure symptoms of polyneuritis
in birds fed on polished rice when adj
ministered in daily doses correspond
ing to four grams of dried cord. \
These vitamines or anti-neuritis
substances, when added to a diet of
polished rice seem capable of remov-
ing some of the nervous symptoms
of disease, but fail absolutely to es-
tablish normal metabolism and the
affected birds do not recover"
This is known. The simplest of
natural foods contain all the mys-
terious physiologically active prin-
ciples required to maintain normal
health. Still we find scientists blindly
rummaging through fields of expert
mental darkness seeking complicated
and high-Sounding explanations for
| Pneumonia so humble on the surface
and so majestic at the core that they
have defied, so far, all the cross-eX-
aminations, all the problings, all the
The grain of wheat simply asks to
be left alone. The other cereals cry
out to humanity, 1--WE are sufficient
in ourselves; do not change our ma
ture, do not undervalue our functions,
do not manipulate our attributes, do
not destroy those potent forces
which we have brought forth from
the bowels of the earth for the food
of man."
In vain shall we seek for peace
while we are at war with the laws of
God. Scientific phrases are not sub
stitutes for the laws of life, howso-
ever they may contribute to the vain
glory of the eminent members of that
august inner circle of established
regulations whose mighty wisdom,
ignoring the simplest laws of life,
Clashes with the all-sufficient but hid
den purposes of the Creator.
The shadow cannot ignore the sub
stance; the dream cannot ignore the
reality; the reflection cannot ignore
the flame. The lore of the libraries
cannot ignore the miracle found in
a drop of milk or a grain of wheat.
Real science, in all the humility of
true greatness, suggests in what it
is doing for the welfare of the world
an image of the divine, but the semi
scientific confusion which has COM
plicated the dietary of nations is but
modern Babel How true these
statements are we are about to see.