Show eliat nat suit for LI libei A against 9 calinst the cereal co ltd gave a splendid chance to bring out facts 0 A disagreement about advertising arose arone with a weekly journal following it an attack on us appeared in their editorial columns sneering at the claims we made particularly regarding appendicitis we replied through the regular papers and tho the weekly thought we hit back rather too hard bard and thereupon sued for or libel the advertisement the weekly attacked na its about claimed that in it many cases of appendicitis an operation could be avoided by discontinuing indigestible food washing out the bowels and taking a predigested predl rood food crape nuts observe we said MANY cases not tit all that knowledge be a comfort to those who fear a surgeons knife as they fear death the weekly writer said that was a lie we replied that he was ignorant of the facts tie ile was put on the stand and compelled to admit he be was not a dr and had no medical knowledge of appendicitis and never investigated to rind find out it if the testimonial monal letters to our co were genuine lne A famous surgeon testified that when an operation was required grape nuts would not obviate it T true rue we never claimed that when an operation was required grape nuts would prevent it the surgeon testified bacteria helped to bring on an attack and bacteria was grown by undigested food frequently we wa claimed and proved by other famous experts that undigested food was largely responsible for appendicitis we showed by expert testimony that many cases are healed without a knife but by stopping the use of food which did not digest antl and when food was required again it was helpful to use a predigested predl food which did not overtax tho the weakened ortans organs of digestion when ft pain tit in the right side appears it la Is not always necessary to bs be rushed off to a hospital and at the risk of death be cut plain common ense allows tho the better way la Is to stop food that evidently has not been digested then when too fool I 1 Is required use an easily digested food grape nuts or any other 1 it you know it to be predigested predl partly digested before taking we brought to court analytical chemists from new york chicago and mishawaka Mis hawaka ind who swore to tho the analysis of grapo nuts and that part of the starchy part of the wheat and barley had been transformed into sugar the kind of sugar produced in the human body by digesting starch the large part of food some of the state chemists brought on by the weekly eald eala grape grapo nuts nuta could not be called a predigested food because not all of it was digested outside the body the other chemists said any food which had 1 ad been partly or halt half digested outside the body was waa commonly known as predigested predl splitting hairs about the meaning of a word it Is sufficient clent that it if only one half of the food to 1 predigested predl 1 it is easier on weakened stomach and bowels thin than food in which no part la Is predigested predl to show the facts we introduce dr thos darlington former chief of the N Y board of health dr ralph W webster chief of the chicago laboratories and dr 13 sachs N Y if we were a little severe in our denunciation of a writer self confessed ignorant about appendicitis and its cause it ts Is possible the public will excuse us in view of the fact that our head mr C W post has made a lifetime study of food food digestion and effects and the are indorsed endorsed Indor sed by many of the best medical authorities of the day Is it possible that we are at fault tor for suggesting as a 17 father th ther and mother alother might to one of the family who announced a pain in the side stop using the food greasy creasy meats gravies mince pie cheese too much starchy food etc etc which has not been digested then when again ready for food uso use because it Is easy of digestion or should the child be at once carted off to a hospital and cut cuta we have known of 0 many cases wherein tho the approaching signs ot of appendicitis have disappeared by the suggestion being followed no one better appreciates tho the value of a skilful physician when a person is a in tho the awful throes of acute appendicitis but an ounce of prevention la Is worth a pound of cure just plain old common sense la Is helpful even nowadays this trial demonstrated grape nuts food I 1 Is s pure beyond question it Is partly pr predl lif ested seated appendicitis generally has rise from get food it Is not always necessary to operate it la is best to stop all food when ready to tte bebin eia teudine tec fe eding dine use a predl rood food it Is pala palatable able and strong in nourishment it will pay fine returns in health to quit tho the heavy breakfasts and lunches and use less food but select food certainly known to contain the elements nature requires to sustain the body may we be permitted to suggest a breakfast of fruit grape nuts and cream two soft boiled eggs and some hot toast and cocoa milk or the question of whether grape arripe nuts does or does doea not contain the elements which nature requires for the nourishment of the brain also of its purity will be treated in later newspaper articles good food Is important Import and its effect on tho the body Is also important theros a reasons reason cereal co ltd battle chov mich |