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Show TEST PROVES SULPHURED FRUIT TO BE HEALTHFUL San Francisco, Jan. 21. Dr. A. J. i Atkins' "health squad." formed to test ! the effect of California sulphured fruit I on the human system, has finished the j ordeal with results that the experi-i experi-i menters declare give a complete refutation refu-tation of Dr. Wiley's charge that fruit dried by such process Is unhealthy. Of the nine rueif, who ate the fruit every day for a month, all except one gained In weight, and the one, who lost, attributes the fact to a great loss of sleep which he suffered during the month. All of the subjects ate from ' four to five ounces of the sulphured j fruit daily except Policeman E. P. Richardson, who ate that quantity three times a day. The policeman showed the greatest gain. Chemical tests showed that each one of the subjects consumed about sixteen grains of sulphur dioxide during the experiment. The results of the" test will be sent to Washington today to be used by the California delegation in trying to bring about a repeal of the antl-sulpburlng clause of the pure food law. The test has been watched with the closest Interest by a large number of prominent local physicians and scientists. Among the number was Luther Burbank, who has written a letter to Dr. Atkins, in which he asserts as-serts the belief that sulphured fruit is far more healthful than the unsulphur-ed. unsulphur-ed. which Js subject' to microbe and vermin. |