Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 December 1907 — LEAN MEAT DIET. [ARTICLE]

LEAN MEAT DIET.

Dasgerons Food for Persona Prone to Liver Tronble. The truth seems to be that a person subsisting upon a lean meat diet, while he may manifest a greater amount of strength than upon a more natural diet, and may beunconsciousof any abnormal condition, isTike~A person In a powder magazine—he is in constant danger of vital catastrophe, is the verdict of Prof. Rauther of Bonn, says the Philadelphia Record. The poison-destroying functions of his liver and the poison-eliminating capacity of ibis kidneys axe taxed to the utmost to keep the’proportion of ptomaine and leucomaines in the tLssues down to a point which permits of the performance of ,tlie vital functions. margin- of tsafety wfaidrmature has wisely made very large in order to provide for emergencies is reduced to the narowest possible limit, so that anything which temporarily interferes with the functions of the liver or the kidneys, or which imposes additional work upon them, may be sufficient to obliterate the safety margin and produce an attack of grave or fatal disease. Invasion of the body by ptomaineproducing microbes, such as the typhoid bacillus, the bacillus of diphtheria, the pneumococcus of Friedlander, the shocks resulting from accident, and even the depression of a severe cold may be sufficient to consume the meager emergency capital, and the result Is actual inflammation of the kidneys, or death under chloroform or from shock following an operation under anesthesia.