Show BEEF TEA AS AN intoxicant wo find it difficult to believe the cable report that liverpool physicians are very much exer alsed over the case of the traveling salesman with delirium induced by too much beet tea says a writer in the new york times food analysts and nutrition experts have long been aware of the high stimulating power of meat proteins which dr says are approximated by one sort of protein from tha vegetable kingdom that of oatmeal the vegetarians in fact base their most effective ments in the fact that the stimulation from meat Is in a way like that from alcohol effecting als sue change or metabolism rather than affording nutriment beet tea Is the highest stimulant among the meat juices physicians have long elace abandoned the notion that it Is a food capable of repairing tissue for laboratory tests have proved that it causes more rapid wasting of the body than no food at all foft 1 indeed dogs fed entirely on concentrated beef juice are so that they die within a few days experiments conducted by the united states department of agriculture on losses in cooking meat showed that beet which has been used tor the preparation ot tea or broth had lost practically none ot its nutritive value while most of the flavoring material the tollo and stimulating part ot the beet bad gone into the extract it la doubtful it the medical men ot liverpool are greatly surprised at the drummer s discovery ot the hilarious consequences to be derived from beet juice deef tea baa never been regarded by those who know as an innocuous beverage those who don t know and who have been experimenting in their own kitchens tor their own con vale scents may well take warning from the sad and remarkable case of the traveling salesman in liverpool |