Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-17
FOODS WHICH CAUSED COLLAPSE
OF GERMAN SAILORS DESCRIBED
CHAPTER 50,

The Striking Contrast Between the
Foods Which Caused the Collapse oi
the German Sailors and the Foods ON
Which They Quickly Recovered
Strength and Health Has Become a
Stumbling Block i'm the Path of Food
Authorities Who Persist in Attributing
to High CaIorie Foods the Virtues
| Which DO Not Belong to Them.
| The lesson of the KronprinZ VIII
helm is this. She has proved con-
clusively the inadequaoy of those very
foods on which America relies so
heavily. Heretofore no prolonged eX-
termine the evil results of living eX-
clusively on such foods. The Kron-
prinz has furnished that experiment.
There can be no greater or more suf-
! ficient proof of the folly of unbalanc-
ing food by refining processes; of the
folly OF ignoring the meaning of the
salts, colloids and vitamines natural
to all unprocessed foods; of the folly
of claiming for high calorie foods the
absurd virtues which they do not
possess.
Shortly after the arrival of the Ger
man cruiser at Newport News, the
ships surgeon, Or. Perrenon, con-
sidered with me all these points and
many more. He realized the neces-
sick men the bases or which they had
| been deprived.
The formula which 1t was my privi-
lege TO suggest, and which was
adopted by him for the treatment of
the acidosis among the German sail
ors, was as follows:
ITO one hundred pounds of wheat
bran add two hundred pounds water.
Leech for twelve hours at 120 degrees
| F. Drain off liquor. Give each man
eight ounces each morning.
Give each man one teaspoonful
wheat bran morning and night until
contraindicated by loose stools.
Boil cabbage, carrots, parsnips,
spinach, onions, turnips together two
hours. Drain off liquor. Discard
residue. Feed liquor as soup in gen
erous quantities with unbuttered
whole wheat bread.
Wash and peel potatoes. Discard
potatoes. Retain the skins. Boil
skins two hours. Give the liquor TO
men to drink, four ounces a day.
Give to each man yolks of four
eggs a day in fresh, sweet, unskim-
med milk, one yolk every three hours,
with as much milk as he will drink by
slipping. .....
AT noon, with. dry whole wheat
bread, give one ounce fresh roast beef.
"One hour before drinking milk give
Juice OF ripe orange, OF lemon juice,
diluted with water without sugar
Keep apples or apple sauce within
reach of men all the time.
AT the end of first week let men
eat solid vegetable soup as well as
| liquor.
1T is imperative that men shall
avoid all cheese, whites of egg, but
ter. lard, fat of any kind, white bread,
crackers, pastry, puddings, mashed
potatoes, sugar, saccharine, salt meat,
fish, polished rice. pearled barley, de-
terminated cornmeal, and gravy
From the ships cook. as translated
by Dr. Perrenon, was obtained a chart
showing what each meal consisted OF
prior TO the breaking out of the dis
ease among the men. This chart not
only accounts for the disease, but also
for the nature of the prescription re
corded above.
BREAKFAST, MONDAY
! Cheese, oatmeal, condensed milk
white bread. butter, coffee, sugar.
BREAKFAST, TUESDAY
Sausage, white bread, butter, fried
potatoes. coffee, condensed milk
sugar.