Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-08
CHAPTER IS

TubercuIous children succumb more
bread, refined breadstufYs, sugars, syrup,
and starches-such children show slight
resisting power against infection, aI-
though their plump, round contour
might cause them to be looked upon as
"well nOurished"-the iron content of
the blood can be Increased or decreased
according to the nature of the food con-
sumed-an irOn-free diet results in
anemia.
Before examining the amazing expe-
! rience of the Kronprinz Wilhelm poison
squad let us not dismiss the anemia,
hemogloben deficiency, and water-log-
ged tissues of artificially fed hogs, cat
tie, and human beings until we have
noted the conclusions of Czerny relative
to the dependence of immunity to dis
ease upon nutrition.
We have seen that one-sided carbo-
hydrate nutrition with refined -starches
sugars, table syrup, sweets, rice pud-
dings, cornstarch puddings, white
crackers, cakes, biscuits, boiled pota-
toes, macaronl, spaghetti, tapioca- sago
white bread, polished rice, processed
corn meal, etc, actually destroys the
immunity of children.
In striking similarity to the pale
tissues of the hog, as reported by DIR.
Oscar Liebreich, and the diseases which
plague the hog, as reported by DR.. NJ.
P. Ravenel, we have the conclusions of
Weigert that
"Tuberculous children succumb more
quickly when nourished with carbo-
hydrates (sugars and starches). The
water content of the organism is in
versely proportioned to the natural
immunity. Such diet increases Mn-
necessarily the amount of water in the
tissues and prompts a rapid rise in the
body weight
such children, who appear plump,
round, and well-nourished, are water
logged and show slight resisting power
against infection. The lack of absorba-
BILE lime salts in the diet favors the wa
ter-logging."
Liebreich's conclusion might have
been applied to the child and Wei
gert's to the hog. so Identical are they
In substance.
The conclusions of Babcock concern
ing the hemogloben deficiency or the
deficiency of red coloring matter in
the blood of city dwellers who attempt
to subsist on demineralized foods are
strikingly identical with the conclu-
sions of every other investigator re-
ported here.
This hemoglobep deficiency, so mark
ed in the anemia of animals. men, wo-
men, ana children, and so disastrous in
its consequences, is directly due to the
withdrawal from the tissues of the
mineral salts and colloids, particularly
the complex organic iron compounds
found in succulent greens egg yolk
whole grains and vegetables.
Socin fed two groups of mice, giving
food to one group free from iron plus
medicinal iron in the form of inor-
ganic iron chloride. To the other
group he gave the same iron-free food
plus the addition of egg yolk, con-
tanning the iron in a highly organized
form.
All of the mice on the artificial iron
diet were dead before the thirty third
day of the experiment. The other mice
fed with iron as prepared by nature,
not only lived but gained in weight
thereby demonstrating the inability of
the nutritional processes to substitute
the inorganic iron of the pharmacy for
the organic iron of the farm.
Lelensky fed dogs upon polished
rice from which the iron compounds
were removed in order to determine
the effect of such iron-free diet upon
the hemogloben content of their blood
In one dog the percentage of hemoglo-
bin fell in nine days from 1875 to 13.1;
in another from 14s to 11.S in six days