Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 May 1900 — Another Article Tabooed. [ARTICLE]

Another Article Tabooed.

If a rnan refused to eat all the arti-clep-which from time to time are placed jmder tie ban by doctors the chances are that he would soon starve to death. A Spruce street physician who is a dietician to the exfent of being known as a crank on the subject, is warning all his patients not ttfeat celery, which has always been regarded as not only harmless but actually beneflcial. This doctor claims to have discovered that she soil in which celery is grown Is laden with germs of enteric fever, and that In the ordinary process of washing it \4 impossible to remove all of the soil, any portion of which, he says, if taken into the system, would contain enough germs of typhoid to fill a hospital. And now his patients are wondering what is to come next—Philadelphia Record.