The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-03-01
POPULAR MEDICINE
BYDR. HIRSHBERG
Intelligent Observation of Rules
of Hygiene will De-
crease Illness.
By DIR. LEONARD X. HIRsHBERG.

By DIR. LEONARD X. HIRsHBERG.
Researches Just announced by some Of
the staff Of the Rockefeller Institute for
Medical Research demonstrate that age
withers and custom dries up the human
fabric as age creeps on apace. Analy-
ses made Of mans brain and spinal cord.
as well as his nerves, show that, the
amount Of water In those textiles Of life
decreases as the years glide by. The
younger the man, the more water on
the BRAIN" the older he is. the more he
is dried up" Physiology thus literary
backs up human figures Of speech.
Perhaps these discoveries are inu-
mately associated with the late Prof.
Metchnikoff's investigations upon old
age. He firmly convinced many persons
that decay in the human intestines
brought on senility, debility. hardened
arteries and high blood pressure. Fur
thermore, the studies Of Prof. Herbert
Spencer Jennings in the geological lab
oratories Of Johns Hopkins University
upon eternal life In animalcules living
and active unto the ten thousandth gen.
Grafton. go TO prove that decay. old age
and death come about through consti-
patton, waste accumulation and a lack
of fresh water.
Avoid Artificial Aids.
All of this is strictly apropos OF the
well attested fact that many people
live upon too little water and too
much constipating pabulum.
Unless mans victuals and drink are
made up OF more fresh water and
coarse foods, which will act as laxa-
tives, evacuants, cleansers, extermina-
tors, and destroyers of poisons he will
begin to dislntegrate at sixty, instead
of living his span of ,three to five
score years.
Recourse to drugs, pills, salts, salty
waters, and the usual easy roads"
to active intestinal movement should
be absolutely the last resort of the
wise health seeker. There are so
many ways, dietetic and natural, for
warding of the old age Of the consti-
pated, that he who takes medicines is
often Justly considered either too lazy,
too negligent, too obstinate, or too inN
capable OF applying knowledge to &C
ton.
Breads, biscuits, and cakes made of
oatmeal husks or wheat bran are pala-
table and pleasant, and especially lax
alive. The bulk made by wheat bran
is a tonic and a food to the alimentary
canal The worst and most unendur-
able examples OF constipation have
been restored to health and regular
action by its use.
Laxative Foods valuable.
Bran, rolled oats and coarse wheat
ara auparfor Ia~atIyas Dag.tn, an
pies, prunes, peaches, and currants,
dried, no less than fresh, are fine
breakfast foods to bring about the
desired result.
Needless to add, water that is
drunk copiously between and before
meals, rather than with meals, Is a
stimuIsnt and a shower to mans
digestive tube.
Chopped dates and raisins mixed
with cornmeal, rolled oats, bran floui
and molasses butter, a little soda
and sour milk can be variously com
bined to make the most enticing sort
OF laxative conceivable.
Pancakes of bran or graham flour
and rolled oats make as fine a bat
ter for griddle cakes as any one
could wish.
A cupful OF white flour and half a
cupful each OF cornmeal and graham
flour, two teaspoonfuls OF sugar, a
heaping one Of baking powuerS one
half teaspoonful sof salt, the batter
OF which is to receive q cup OF
cream with a big pinch OF baking
soda, after a hard beating, makes al
fine laxative hot bread IL baked for
of an hour in a mod
crate oven.
ICopy't, 1911. by Newspaper Feature service.l