Show i I POOR SOUPS LEAD TO SUICIDE J It r 1 II Ji Dr Mark L Knapp of New York city a specialist in diseases of o f 1 s the stomach declares that one cause of disease is the inability of the thel th e l 1 cooks in this country to properly prepare such such a simple article of diet die t i 1 h as ordinary beef b f soup it I 1 1 lilt It is surprising g says Dr Knapp p that the plainest of o all the th e preparation of cf ordinary beef soup is unknown to the mass of the people What should be the healthiest dish is turned into a very harmful concoction Soup is spoiled by the prolonged cooking for fo r several hours I I I As an introduction I should like to remove if possible that t t stigma of American dyspepsia having found dyspepsia just as a s prevalent in Europe During my stay in Berlin at the Augusta hos hospital hospital hospital pital ten years ears ago I Iliad had plentiful occasion to treat the dyspeptics dyspeptic of all nationalities who constantly to be treated Amer Arner America ArnerI America I ica sins no more with regard to eating than does the rest of the world The one nation gets sick from overeating of meats the other from overindulgence in vegetables another from eating earing too much starches etc S I I At least of all aU chronic diseases directly or indirectly come from the stomach It therefore behooves us to have great re I sect for the most important organ of the body and since it is the th e function of that organ to take food and digest it we should learn t to o prepare that food properly Utmost simplicity is the watchword in inthe inthe inthe the preparation of food |