Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-03

twelve mineral elements is surrendered
by our food for the building processes
of our bodies. We invite disorder and
decay when we remove from our food
one or more of these building mate
rials.
All foods contain some of these
building materials; other foods con-
tain all of them.
Man heedlessly removes many of
them from the food which he manu-
factures and sells to his neighbor,
thereby converting such food into in
adequate building materials.
Yet the menu card, cataloguing the
building 1aterials supplied by break
fast. dinner and supper, is only too
frequently left to accident or to the
Whlm of an ignorant kitchen drudge
or to food factory concerned chiefly
IN the profit of its products.
Many foods, for instance, contain
calcium in the highly organized com
binations which are acceptable to the
needs of the human body. CONNER
clal methods of manufacture remove
this calcium from their products.
Absurd methods of home cooking
also remove them. That such calcium
loss should not be tolerated is dis
closed by a study of the functions
performed in the body by calcium,
If we kill frog, for instance. and
place Its still pulsating heart on a
slab OF marble, 1T will be noticed that
tne heart VIII not lose a single puIsa-
ton for some time. EventuaIly of
course, 1t will collapse and appear
hisless, put II we wish to prolong its
pulsauons we need only bring il into
the presence of a solution of caIcinno
Under the influence of this com
monest of earths, usually confined In
tn imagination of the peopIe 70
whitewash and mortar, that dead
heart Will show many nanifestafions
OF life. Its pulsations will be re-es-
tablished.
Calcium assists the digestive for
ments to perform their duties. when
food is robbed of its calcium normal
digestion does not progress. This in
fluence on ferments Is not confnad
to the digestive tract. In the Jabora-
tory and the food. factory also we see
1t at work. $50
Rennet. for instance, is fermen+
1t Is used to make curG from mill
Curd is the first step in the n1n,,,' n'riN
facture OF cheese. In order that the
rennet Lay perform it's duties ~ Az
manner expected by the cheese
maker 1t is necessary that the col
cium natural to all normal min, he
perfectly soluble To make sure of
tilio 5piubiiNy Nlit CneeSe-mat(er ID,
hydrochloric acid to the mill lis
knows that IL the calcium is throI,,'s Ire
out of solution the curd will ne,,on ~
become cheese. o'ei
OXalic acid would throw tho oo,
cium out of solution. So wonid ,teI
ilization at the boiling point Tn 'eer, an,,
mixture of milk so treated +ba far ny
ment rennet thus deprived of tho H.,
fluence of calcium, refuses to onorato
and the cheese-maker makes Nc
cheese. Ho
If, while in a state of heaItb vo,,
should cut your finger, the snl,IhJa
calcium in your blood would csnso- =,
to coagulate at the surface os a.
wound and you would NOT bIead to
death, as you would II il were not se,, ~
the interference OF the calcium at ~
disposal of nature. AZ 'iie
In certain diseases where tho non
NAL content of calcium is no Ionea,.
present in the blood. the wound 80
fuses to heal. One of the corr roo,,aa.
symptoms of anaemia. acidosis na,.,,
Gus prostration, etc, is the refnsaI ~
even the slightest wounds 70 baei
promptly.
Surgeons. realizing the innor+snca
of this function performed bv caIciun,
frequently attempt to infrodnca a.
intol the blood before serious onerat
tions in the form of calcium ,satn.a
They do this in order to prevent bem-