The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1921-07-25
|CHILDREN'S
DISEASES
| UNNECESSARY
Osteopathic Specialist So
Declares at a
Convention -

CLEVELAND, O., July 20
Traditions of medical science were
thrown to the winds today when
DR.. E O. Jones of Evanston, Ill.,,
declared that children's diseases
are entirely unnecessary. ms
revolutionary statement was made
in a paper read at the annual con-
vention of the American Osteo-
pathic Association, which opened
session of one week here today.
Correction of diet and elimination
will prevent these so-called nee
essary diseases, said DR. Jones.
at is much safer to be an Am
erican soldier on the firing line in
France than an American child at
home, declared the speaker. "lf
you hate your child, cram him
with dainties."
The very latest up-to- the-mlnute
researches by the worlds greatest
biologists prove that sickness is
caused by the absorption of pois-
ons from dead cells, not by germs,
said the speaker. Germs are not
the cause of disease. Germs are
present in millions of people who
have no disease but whose resist
ance is so high that the germs
perish because they are killed by
the living cells and have no dead
cells to thrive upon. The body is
immune to germs when it is free
from decomposition.
When just out of infancy many
children are allowed to eat meat>
and sugar and too much syrup
They are eaten entirely too freely
and the remainder of the diet may
consist of bread, butter, cerea
and potatoes. Such eating habits
| fail to make the child develop nor
mally, and we have become so &C
customed to see children WHOSE
physical development is distinct!
below par that as a rule parent:
do not feel sense of guilt for
condition in their children which
lis wholly the result of ignorance
or indifference. The outcome o.
their failure to meet their obliga
tons is a lifelong tragedy fol
their offspring.
| Ignorance of man-made law
does not excuse any one; nov
much less should Ignorance O.
natural laws excuse parents? l
lis high time that every mOthe
should know as much about feed
ing her family as the thousands o
successful farmers know abou
| feeding live stock. The majorit.
of mothers are giving a larg'
amount of thought and time a
well as labor to solving the prob
lens of dressing themselves an
children attractively while leavin!
thier physical development entirel.
| to chance.
| 1t is true that growth and APP
parent health may take place on
| diet of cereals, white f1oul
potatoes and meat, but only thos
diets that contain one or both pro
tective foods THAT is, milk am
leafy vegetables have ever main
ltained animals in a state of muir
ttion which promotes vigor and sus
tains longevity.
During the first year of child
life milk is sufficient with frul
Juice for one meal. During tn
second year allow the child to ca
all the fruit it will take with rel
ish without any sugar on 1t be
fore or after its regulation mea
of milk. The milk of a good goa
is far superior .---.n that OF
COW, being the nearest to mother,
milk and containing very sma
amount of germs as compare
with cows milk. When stare
eating begins, which should nc
be until the last art of the secon
year, let it be always whole graf
fiours, for these give the vitamine
which are so essential to keep u
the body resistance. Remembe
that uncooked foods contain tn
vitamines, therefore supply tn
raw fruits and vegetables i
abundance.
Children's diseases, including tn
eruptive fevers, are caused by If
terrupted elimination from ovel
eating. Fermentation is at tn
foundation of all disease, for W
know that fermentation cause
acidity and acidity is the avenu
through which disease enters @
begins. If we kept our system
normally alkaline, we would neve
be i'll and never have infection
diseases. Food that does not d
gest must take on pathological fel
mentation. There is imperfet
combustion and retention in tn