| Show THE WAR AGAINST t TION I 1 1 the rile wholesale poisoning scare in regard to pre preserve lives and adulterants adulte rants in foods has been discussed discuss recently in th lay ay iy and medical press it brings UP unpleasant memories ot of the malodorous malo 0 days ef ct tho embalmer embalmed ed beef scandal with he be remarkable conflict of testimony as to whether a little boric acid in ili fresh bor beer were as harmful ful as saltpeter in corned beof indeed one of the government bureaus in ili washington Washing tOlk beems to have been puzzling over ohp r tile alio problem ever since actually experimenting with a poisons poison squad of volunteers desirous of uncomfortably fort ably purchased glory it Is no doubt disquieting to know kilow k ilow that creo sote a tank rank poison Is put on our harns hams or in ili the whisky we might pro pre scribe for others but thole tears fears dis appear when we learn that the old fashioned house or burnt barrels did this the bame ame to tho the bacon anil and whisky of our forefathers indeed it seems to be a rule to look askance at every innovation whether it 11 be good or bad even sugar was once considered a dangerous preservative and forbidden by law copper once thought I 1 highly dangerous in small amounts amount is now known to be quite harmless and cooking vessels of this metal are ara per f emitted the rho minute quantities of dyes i used in our ico fee cream or cake or to color our butter butler to its proper I 1 ing yellowness are quite harmless alum may lie be harmful no doubt but the crusade against it for the trade purposes of certain baking powders bordered on the ridiculous for a time j we were seared scared into making tho crusaders rich beyond nic measure asure of course we do not want the whole ll 11 ofa of chemical preservatives dumped indiscriminately into our foods we prefer them as kiture made them but wo we must remember that we are arc ho fio longer living Is as intended when she supplied the foods we bunch together i too much arid and top to far from the food supply which wu ave get at all by tho the old methods modern cities could not exist it if it were kere not for the new ways of preserving foods long enough to reach tho the consumer it is tight light and propel that we should know all about ther there e now new antiseptics and whether they are mori more harmful than the old ones and we must also keep a firm grasp upon the manufacturers to check excesses excess cs but thero there Is no use ilse getting frightened fright emd over the ri att e r american Amei Amet ican icart medicine |
