THE BUTCHER BENEFACTOR

Hokitika Guardian, 30 June 1928, Page 3

THE BUTCHER BENEFACTOR

(Auckland Star)

Every year brings stronger evidence of man’s dose relationship with, and dependence upon, the lower animals. We look now more than ever before to animals to provide remedies in sickness, hut have been led to look with doubt upon the good solid meat diet. The eare of pornieioi s anaemia by raw liver'and liver extract is a recent discovery of immense imnorinn-e. for mineral therapy was an admitted failure and many thousands of lives will he saved which otherwise would have been lost. As partly-cooked liver is also a curative value the doctors were on the right track in. long ago. ordering meat far anaomies. in heart failure and c llap.-C'. in diabetes. nitre, cretinism and many other pathological conditions, animal extracts are our best remedies, and where the serum of mi immune animal is found to be a partial or complete' cure for diseases there is already a list of cases too long to he given here. That Voronoff will find a .substitute .for monkey gland secretion in his treatment of tiie physical failure of old age is probably oniy a question of time, and when lie does the objection now raised to his method will no longer have any force. Animals die that we may live. The idea, is certainly unpleasant to all sensitive people, hut it seems to lie hut one form of the law seen in action throughout Nature and apart from the dominance of pain. ‘ln many wasting diseases raw meat as food has proved of great service, and the stimulant quantities of meat extracts are well known. IMuseular fibre, fat. marrow and selected portions of various animal organs have each s -me special virtue and meat-eating nations are the strongest throughout the wor'd. Man does not easily convert vegetable fibre into nourishment. There are few kinds of vegetation which are readily -similated by man and having suslining. stimulating and hody-h’.iild-The

inH f|ualities in combination ainomit of vegetable food required to give these three tilings at one meal is usually too large to lie comfortably carried l>y tlie norma! stomach. T!io note lias boon prompted by the news

tlint V. Stefanson. 11 it- explorer. who. with In’s companions, lived healthily and happily in a cold climate upm meat and meat only, for very many months, is now encaged in proving (by experiment) to the American medical profession that by the sole use of a meat diet men can retain health and strength without any disability or symptoms of any one of the horrid things—rheumatism, hard arteries, kidney di-ease, etc. —meat caters are so often threatened with hy the believers in -“mixed diet.’’ or fruit and seeds onlv.

Dr Lane has shocked bis friends, who have welcomed bis teaching re wholemeal bread and vitamins by saving that 'Y glass of good beer is better than a pint of tea,” and somehow the mention of leer suggests meat; rather than vegetable diet. .Miss O. R. A\ i 1 - cox (New York “Tribune”) quotes from Pepys. a gord dinner in 1000: ‘A dish of marrow l-ones. a leg o! mutton, a loin of veal, a dish of fowl, three pullets and two <b>/on larks all in a dish; a great; tart, a neat's 1 nguo; a d’sli of anchovies, a dish of prawns and cheese,'.’ High b’-o-o I pressure was common in I’epy's day. bill we bear nothing of cancer. L .is well to remember that nothing whatever has been proved to show the o line t ion between cancer and food of any kill'd. Australians are fine fell ws and great eaters of meat. Tt seems lo me that New Zealanders are running a little too much to seed (vide sioutli African reu.rts) bv comparison. —FLA.Y.