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Show NEED OF A STANDARD BREAD. Dr Leonard Hill, tho English physiologist, phy-siologist, has made recently an interesting inter-esting contribution to the question of what the 'English arc now calling, "standard broad," the standard containing con-taining about SO per cent of tho total grain as agalpBt 70 or 1? per cent contained con-tained in the whiter broad now generally gen-erally used. Although tho discussion has thrown much light upon the chemistry at flour and has served to show In how many ways flour Is treated and how many things may bo added to "Improve" "Im-prove" It, It has. contributed but little to our Knowledge of the physiological value of tho different flours. Dr. Hill has been conducting experiments ex-periments on the nutritive valuo of white and standard bread, using rats as subjects. He says that his results have been astonishing Rats fed on white bread or flour did very badly. Many of them died, the others grew slowly, Increased but slightly In weight in six weeks, after which time nearly all of thorn began to lose weight. The rats fed on thp standardj bread or flouf) did much better; fewer of them iVifii and tUeir Increase n weight, was more than twice as great as in those fed on the white, broad and flour. Dr. IIIll concluded that either thei standard flour contained .something essential to growth which was not In white flour, or that the latter contained something dotrlnlont-'al, dotrlnlont-'al, "improvers," for example. ' - These are not the first experimcnLs which .show that different wheat bfeads have markedly different physiological physi-ological effects. In bulletin CO of tho hygelnlc labratory Hunt states that mire fed upon the "whlto wheat bread" obtained from the Washington bakery showed but one-fourth the resistance re-sistance to certain poisons that was shown by mice fed upon similar bread from another bakery, although dealers considered them equivalent. It Is quite provable, says the New-York New-York Medical Journal, that breads which have such markedwly different effects upon lower animals would also have different effects upon infants and young children, and perhaps urJn adults, especially in sickness. The lower animals are usually supposed to be resistant and adaptable as regards re-gards food, whereas the extreme sensitiveness sen-sitiveness of infants to slight changes In diet Is well known. |