| Show 4 HEALTH SUPERSTITIONS r I If Ic Ice Cream Gream Isn't Sanitary 1 1 I It Can Cause f Serious Diseases lit 1 y By Dy DR MORRIS FISH FISHBEIN DEIN Editor Edito Journal of the American America Medical As and nd of Hygeia the tho Health Magazine Tho popularity of Ice cream Inthe inthe In Inthe the United t tion Jo to to- American n people It Is n no longer considered a 3 confection or luxury but bilt Is isa a standard dessert dessert- It IL Is Js estimated ted by F F. W. W Fabian that the tho production of 01 Ice 9 cr cream am In th tim tOR United States In 1921 was al al- al most t gallons or or almost 11 1 three gallons allons' for person person In the country In Iii 1510 less than one third one third this amount was wis consumed In t the tto o manufacture ma re of ot I Ice e cream ream the substances used are are lre milk cream condensed and evaporated milk mill milk pow pow- te Fr From m the nie bf view 0 bf th the question ef of bacterIologic control In Involves Involves' In- In the tho control of of at these substances substances' sub sub- st stances stances' The he ot other er constituents such as as' gelatine sug sugar r and flay br bring ing extracts do donot not contribute b bac- bac ct c- c t to terla-to the product It Is IS' therefore nece necessary in the manufacture of ot good l Ice re to begin with go good d milk and arid milk mUk products For some lomo time attempts haye have been made mad to secure se ure by law ipas- ipas 55 of of of'S S ice Ice e. e cream r am mixes which h Includes Includes' the substances bC bc- bc torB r According to a a. recent report two report two st states lt s and nd ono ono province require cai mixes mixes' to be paz pas 1 and arid the tho Dis Dis- of Columbia i- i require the milk and cream am used In Ice cream to be 0 pasteurized cd Some Sorti states require that all ll milk b be obtained bt from tuberculin tested cows cos some soni st states tes require lre certificates certificates cat cates s of health for those employed l In Inthe tho Ice cre cream m th there re S I a a wide variety of- of f tl b be research and standardization Iz Somo pe people may may bo be Inclined to doubt tho the possibility that epidemics may arise from Ice from Ice cr cream am but the actual fact is that h typhoid hold fever ever septic sore sOfe throat diphtheria rIa scarlet sear scar let lct te er dysentery dent t and various other oth oth- lh er Intestinal r. r diseases following the eating of Ico Ice cream wore were duo duo- duoto to metallic substances substances' from the cans c L-it L Later people were Inclined d c to blame ptomaine Now ow It Is definitely understood that In practically every every- Instance when a. a a a considerable number numb r of f ue follow the tho eating of Ice cream cream they are due to bacteria b been n allo allowed ed to to pcr persist in fn the milk and which have In this way vay come coma Into the bodies of the people who wh ha havo eaten the material When one onit becomes beCOm overheated for any iny any reason whatever er moisture re appears appearson on n the s 's surface of the lbs body a arid and d the evaporation of ot this moisture te tends ds to lower lower- temperature tb the temperature of the surface For cor many many years It has been though t that tha one of the chief f pur put pos poses s of waa to rid the bod body of p poisonous ls nou material m Am Among ng inin many oriental p sweat eal baths are ue as a means of f k keeping the body In g good physical condition I In order orde ord r to d determine exactly what th the condition of may may be bt investigators rs In the thep Pre ran hospital In ii delphi have ot made madeI a collection of tion from rom people with various ct cUi eases casc and and have ha It ml cally 1 When tho the perspiration f first rat i ip pears It Isi Is Is slightly more addS l lIts' lIts Its Its' reaction than thai that iii ij pears pear's later This Is hi probably on onto il to the attempts of ot tHe Uie body t maintain Its normal norm l reaction und various circumstances T ert t the perspiration co contains mor more moro o s 's i kaUne kaline material as as can an- anbe be ietI mined by m measuring the c cp p perspiration on protected from th the thai it i Because use h heat at treatment Is fri Q en JY used In Jn In such ze inflammations of ot tho the joints M fall l In rheum rheumatic u disorders diso ders et efforts were ra made to find ci 01 Whether hether tho the perspiration co conti any different substances und th these s conditions s cIt It It vas however r th that the do does s not change during of arthritis rheumatism I 11 J I In t tte t e case of h or or disturbance nc ot of tho ever It na its found that the p persa ri ration Oration do doe doc contain contain- more more nore prot material l inthe form o o prod produCt h th thin than n under unde-r normal con Uon This ot of- course of-course course explains ti value of sweat baths In Iii In cases caus In which the 1 disabled by Infection and Hon tion a r I Perspiration consists ts largely'S fluid fat end nd fatty falty ieH III and sonic some pr protein material well as It a small sinai amount of ot salts Tho human body Ii I marvelous meth mechanism tenil lar largely li t to self regulation self n. n and O studies studies' th that t have e been t def f perspiration Indicate another Pt suet mett od by which it maintains Its ft ph sl equilibrium al S i |
