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White or Brown Broad.
Nineteenth Century.
The earliest agitator in the
observed two years ago, when
ing in Gloil v, that the laboring
there live healthily and work well upon
a vegetable diet, the staple article of
which is bread of well-ground wheat
meal. 3STor are the Sicilians by any
means the only people so supported.
"The Hindus of the Northwestern
Province can walk fifty or sixty miles
a day with no other food than 'chapat
ties,' made of the whole meal, with a
little 'ghee,' or Galam butter:' Turk
ish and Arab porters, capablo of carry
ing burdens of from 400 to 600 pounds
live on bread only, with the occasional
addition of fruit and vegetables. The
Spartans and Romans of old time
lived their vigorous lives on bread
made of wheaten meal. In northern
as well as Southern, climates, wo find
the same thing. In Russia, Sweden,
Scotland and elsewhere, the poor live
chiefly on bread, always made from
some whole meal wheat, oats or rye
and the peasantry, of whatever clime,
so fed always compare favorably with
our South English poor, who, in condi
tions of indigence precluding them
from obtaining sufficient rnpat food,
starve, if not to death, at least into
sickliness, on the white bread it is our
modern English habit to prefer.
White bread alone will not support
animal life. Bread made of the whole
grain will. The experiment has been
tried in France by Magendie. Dogs
were the subjects of the trial, and every
care was taken to equalize all the other
conditions to proportion the quantity
of food given in each case to the
weight of the animal experimented
upon, and so forth. The result was
sufficiently marked. At the end of
forty days the dog3 fed solely on white
bread died. The dogs fed on bread
made of whole grain remained vigorous,
healthly and well nourished. "Whether
an orignally healthy human being, if
fed solely on white bread for forty
days, would likewise die at the end of
that time remains, of course a ques
tion. The tenacity of life exhibited
by Magendie's dogs will not evidently
bear comparison with that of the
scarcely yet forgotten forty days' won
der, Dr. Tanner. Nor is it by any
means asserted that any given man or
any given child would certainly re
main in vigorous health for an indefi
nite length of time if fed solely on
wheat-meal bread. Not a single piece
of strong evidence has been produced
however, to show that ho would not;
and in the only case in which whole
meal bread has been tried with any
persistency or on any considerable
scale among us to-wifc, in jails facts
go to show such bread to be an excel
lent and wholesome substitute for
more costly forms of nutritious food.
ment of the
president's
friends will
Paying President Garfield's Doctors.
Washington Dispatch to the Cincinnati Commercial.
One of the first things that will be
brought up in congress is the settle-
bills incident to the late
illness. Gen. Garfield's
advocate the appointment
of a committee to audit bills and make
a statement to the secretary of the
treasury, whom they will ask to be
given power to pay the amount from
any moneys in the treasury not other
wise appropriated. It is thought that
in this way the matter may be fixed uu
quietly, without any undignified squab
bling in congress over the precise
amount of money needed. The phy
sicians have been asked by the finan
cial agent of Mrs. Garfield to sond
their bills to her, but they have refused
to do so. Dr. Bliss said that he would
not think of taking from Mrs. Garfield
what would be a mere bagatelle to the
government, while it would sensibly
reduce her income. He and the other
physicians have declined to take any
thing at all unless it comes from, the
government. Dr. Agnew has figured
up the direct loss to him through his
connection with the case, and it
amounts, it is reported, to $9,500. Dr.
Bliss, in loss of practice and expenses
incident to his devotion to the presi
dent, amounts almo3t to some $10,000.
This allows nothing for the constant
service, anxiety and labor as nurse and
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physician, night and day, for the long
weeks of the president's illness. Drs.
Agnew and Hamilton did not give all
thoir time to tho case, or their loss
would havo been much greater; but
Dr. Bliss surrendered his entire prac
tice of necessity. Drs. Agnew, Ham
ilton and Bliss, it is expected, will con
sider $25,000 apiece a fair compensa
tion for their work. Drs, Barnes and
Woodward are ofllcers of the govern
ment, so that they suitor no pecuniary
loss from their attendance on tho case.
The physicians hope tho matter will
be settled before the holidays, and
Gen. Garfield's friends desire tho bills
Fdt led before tho eulogies are pro
nounced. Skimmed Milk.
Dr. Koote'a J Ienllli Monthly.
Dr. Brush, of Mount Vernon, N. Y..
has written to tho Medical Record a
sensible protest against the wanton
waste of skimmed milk, which is fre
quently seized and poured into tho gut
ter by the inspectors of the Board of
Health. There ia, he says, no reason
to regard skimmed or oven watered
milk as injurious to health or innu
tritious, and for babies and adults
with weak stomachs, it is to be pre
ferred to milk which is rich in fat. Ho
quotes authorities who state that oven
calves thrive best on skimmed milk
not because in a state of nature their
mother's milk would be too rich for
them, but because as cows are fed and
continually milked, tho secretion be
comes unnaturally rich in solid and
fatty constituents. It is further argued'
that when children are fed on over
rich milk, a portion of tho fat passes-
through them unabsorbed, and conse
quently Liebig proposed the use of
skimmed milk of cows in the prepara
tion of milk to correspond as closely as
possible with human milk. Skimmed'
milk sent to cities is not liable to be1
the product of diseased cows, for their
milk cannot bo kept long enough for
tho cream to rise in paying quantity.
Therefore tho only possible objection
to the sale of skimmed milk is that peo
ple may be made to pay tho same price
for it as though a part of tho cream
had not been removed. Instead U .of
confiscating and destroying it wiien
found coming into a city, there should
be some punishment for dealers who
I charge a full price for it, and an extra
fine put upon those who add water,
for the dilution of milk to the require
ments of babies can better be attended
I to "at home."
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A Peculiar HaBitt'
Di Poole's Health Monthly
Dr. S. Weir Mitchell, in a work on
nervous diseases, refers to an affection
common to children and not uncommon
in adults, to which he has given tho
name "Habit Chorea " ll consists of
a frequent spasmodic action of some
muscle of tho face or body which
causes a twitching of the eyelid, draw
ing of the mouth one way or another,
twisting of the head, elevation of one
shoulder, etc., etc. There is a large
variety of such movements which tend
to make tho subject an object of curios
ity or of laughter. It is well called a
chorea habit, because it is something ef
the nature of St Vitus' dance (chorea),
and occurs generally in nervous organi
zations, or when because of general ill
health the system becomes debilitated
and proportionately irritable. In the
Medical and Surgical Reporter a
pgysicimi relates his experience with a
few such cases, and concludes that
in many of them the fault may be over
come merely by calling upon the indi
Tidual to exerci80 his will power to
prevent tho movements. In this the
friends and relatives can be of service
in frequently reminding him to bo on
his guard and control himself TUfc
longer the habit is permitted if) go on
the more difficulty there will bu m
overcoming it especially in children.
When it is evident that tho movements
can be controlled by the exercise of the
will, it is important to urge them to
check themselves early, and if there is
any reason to believe that tho general
health is impaired, this should aslo re
ceive due attention.
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