Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 December 1895 — Iron and Food. [ARTICLE]

Iron and Food.

Professor Bunge, iu the course of a paper on iron ns a medicine, read before the German Congress of Internal Medicine, has been ventilating some ideas which are as much a matter of general science (and therefore extremely important) as they are details connected with the physician’s domain. He is strong on the point that iron should reach our blood through the medium of our food rather than through the druggist’s specialties. Iron, as everbody knows, is a food element absolutely essential for the proper constitution of the hoc y. It is as rigidly demanded by the plant as by the animal; and it is from plants that Professor Bunge shows we should chiefly receive our iron | supply. Spinach, he tells us, is richer in i iron than the yolk, of eggs, while the yolk j contains more than beef. Then succeed apples, lentils, strawberries, white beans,' | peas, potatoes and wheat, these subi stances being given in the order iu which ; they stand as regards the plentifulness of their iron constituents. Cow’s milk is poor in iron, but, as balancing this deficiency in the food of the young mammal, it is found that the blood of the youthful quadruped contains much more iron than the adult. Thus, in a young rabbit or guinea pig one hour old, four times as much iron was found as ocj curs in these animals two and a half ! months old.