Show CALLED ELIXIR OF LirE Eminence Testify to the Men of k Worth of Buttermilk Assuming that you have forsworn iJcohol and have found nothing to re tact the glass ot beer try buttermilk In good condition at Its sourest It is B genuinely refreshing sharp drink acid but not thin like lemonade nourishing nour-ishing but not Insipid like milk It Is a harmless substitute for intoxi tuberculosis and cants a remedy for complaints and beneficial ni pulmonary final to the digestion Russian Ko miss nearly tho same thing Is sour mares milk and It Is well known that the tribes who drink It are Immune from consumption Koumiss Kou-miss has consequently been largely used as a cure for that disease The famous Russian Count Tolstoy who with tuber was at one time afflicted culosls attributes his cure largely to the drinking of Koumiss In abundance while living in a tent on the Russian steppes A famous English physician Sir Lauder Brunton says of buttermilk that It Quenches the thirst supplies food and also contains a ferment which If absorbed may he useful In aiding the conversion of sugar Into lactic acid within tho body I am inclined in-clined to attribute the benefits occasionally occa-sionally derived from the use of skimmed milk to Its possessing similar simi-lar properties to buttermilk But I consider the latter superior When It is allowed to become very sour and all Its milk sugar has been converted into lactic acid it would probably be still better According to Professor Metchnlkoff sour milk or buttermilk Is a sort of elixir of life In that it Is a remedy for the slow intoxications that weaken weak-en the resistance of the higher elements ele-ments af the body Buttermilk Is very easy of digestion 1 and assimilation In diabetes where milk Is more or less objectionable buttermilk can be safely given with advantage It is also given as a refrigerant |