Show It Is the Tiny Tiny- Germ of the Wheat That Contains the Needed Vita mine I THE peculiar quality In wheat corn rice and other grains that thatis i is Ic called a vitamin which is not a nutritive property but without which animals and human be- be Ings perish of ot such diseases diseases dis dis- eases cases as beri ben has definitely been found to exist principally in the j germ or embryo The V final Cinal proof of oI this isI is ts contained in a re report report report re- re port to tho the Royal Q G GE e R M M. Society of Great Magnified Magnified- section ecHo Britain on Of 01 grain n of 01 wheat tile meats ments or figures contain made mado by Hariette essential vitamins Maros' lost os' in Chic and E. E Mar- Mar garet Hume the importance of or which says tho the Journal of tho the American American Amerlean Amer Amer- ican lean Medical Association cannot be too strongly emphasized Now in our modern process of milling milling mill Ill ing lag white flour this germ eIm being soft sort and oily Is squeezed out flat and lost lostIn In wheat whole flour it is preserved as well as cs the bran lan l Many strange instances o of outbreaks s of beri bert among soldiers and sailors and civilians civilians civil civil- ians lans and of ot cessations of such outbreaks outbreaks outbreaks out out- breaks are explained by br this discovery For Instance berl ben was rare among Norwegian sailors when they subsisted subsisted subsisted sub sub- on biscuits made from rye flour in which the germ is not removed by milling but as soon as laws s were pass passed ell compelling shipments to feed their men on bread made from white flour the disease became much more frequent Again it is pointed out as very significant in connection with the siege of Kut al Kut-al-Amara Kut that berI-beri berI ben berl should ba have havo broken out among the British troops while on their normal ration of white wheaten flour and should have have cleared up when they were obliged to share In the more coarsely milled and doubtless germ contain in lag ing grain rain of their Indian sol fellow diers LIen hen is what Is called a deficiency deficiency deficiency de de- de- de dis that ase-that that Is one that is caused by some deficiency in the diet it is now known that the human body needs other substances than the tho mere foods and that without the mysterious ous and elusive It will per pen ish |