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Show oo UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF BEEF TEA. We find It difficult to believe the cable report that Liverpool physicians physic-ians are very much " exercised oor the case of the traveling salesman with delirium tremens induced by too much beef tea Food analysts and nutrition experts have long been aware of the high stimulating power of meat proteins, which. Dr. Chittenden Chit-tenden savs are approximated by onp , sort of protein from the vegetable kingdom, that of oatmeal. The veg-eterlans, veg-eterlans, in fact, base their most effective ef-fective arguments on the fact that the stimulation from meat is in a way like that from alcohol, effecting tissue change or metabolism rather than affording nutriment Beef tea is the highest stimulant among the meat juices. Physicians have long since abandoned the notion that It 16 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 Indeed, dogs fed entirely on concentrated con-centrated beef Juice are so overstlm-ulated overstlm-ulated that they die within a few davs. Experiments conducted by the United States Department of Agriculture Agri-culture on losses In cooking meat showed that beef which has been used for the preparation of tea or broth had lost practically non- of its nutritive value, while most of the "flavoring material" the toxic and stimulating part of the beef had gone into the extract. It is doubtful if the medical men of Liverpool are greatly surprised at the drummer's discovery of the hilarious hi-larious consequences to be derived from beef juice. Beef tea has never been regarded by those who know-as know-as an Innocuous beverage; those who don"t know and who have been experimenting ex-perimenting in their own kitchens for their own convalescents, ma1 well take warning from the sad ca.-e of the salesman in Liverpool New Vork Times. |