Show THE STRUGGLE AMONG BACTERIA I In these times of bacteriological research I search when microorganisms play such an Important part In nuturca processes J tho human imagination Is I ready for any announcement no matter how startling concerning the bacteria we eat and drink and the bacteria constantlY present in the healthy human body It was a good whllo ago that science revealed the fact that the process of digestion di-gestion stomach and intestinal is carried ou by bacteria In fact tho digestive Vermont Ver-mont Is Itself bacteria A few months ago a wellknown Illinois physician living at Champaign who la recognized na an expert in the treatment of appendicitis rtclared In a published Interview that this diseaseVins caused by the lack of phos I phorm In modern foods the clement upon which tho bacteria of digestion live The lack of phosphorus drives the bacteria of tho small intestine down Into the largo Intestine where they become diseased dis-eased Their great abundance makes them croWd down Into the trmlfonn appendix ap-pendix which Is attached to tho caecum causing Inflammation to sot in resulting In appendicitis Vhcthur this Is a correct theory or not the average person is not affrighted nowadays now-adays over the announcement that his internal In-ternal regions are teeming with bacteria In an article on tho Stnigflc for Ex letenCo Among Bacteria In the current Independent Prof H W Conn of Woa leyau university tells uu that when milk Is twelve hours old there are from two to three hundred millions of bacteria In each cubic Inch of the fluid The title of Prof Connji article however la misleading mis-leading The struggle hn refers to Is not the struggle of human beings among bacteria but the struggle ot one form of bacteria against annihilation by another and hardier form of bacteria This struggle strug-gle begin In milk for Instance as soon na It cornea from the cow Tho bacteria which produce putrefaction and decay begin be-gin a death struggle with the lactic bacteria bac-teria which convert the milk sufrnr Into lactic acid and this soura the milk lie lactic organlsmH being made of sterner stuff triumph over the putrefying bacteria bac-teria and wave tho milk from ruin Chicago KccordIIcraia t |