. Gaillard's medical journal . f-imposed ordeal, his heart to-day beats thirty per cent, faster thanit did previous to his experiment. No facts in science then are better establishedthan those in regard to the comparative and relative values of different kinds of these facts be applied to the study of the cereal foods, it isonly necessary toremember that the glutenof such foods is their ni-trogenized element ; theelement on which dependstheir life sustaining value,and that this element is,in the white and foolishlyfashionable flour, almostentirely removed ; whilethe starch, the inferio
. Gaillard's medical journal . f-imposed ordeal, his heart to-day beats thirty per cent, faster thanit did previous to his experiment. No facts in science then are better establishedthan those in regard to the comparative and relative values of different kinds of these facts be applied to the study of the cereal foods, it isonly necessary toremember that the glutenof such foods is their ni-trogenized element ; theelement on which dependstheir life sustaining value,and that this element is,in the white and foolishlyfashionable flour, almostentirely removed ; whilethe starch, the inferiorelement, is left behind,and constitutes almost en-tirely the bulk and infe-rior nutriment of suchflours. To use flour fromwhich the gluten (in thebran) has been removedis almost criminal ; thatit is foolish and needlessneeds now no furtherdemonstration. In sickness, and in thesickness of infants espe-cially, starch is highly in-jurious, while gluten islife-giving and foods should berich in gluten, and con-. Fig. 25. Durkees Glutena. CEREAL FOODS UNDER THE MICROSCOPE. 13
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