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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1933-01-26, Page 7This Week's Science Notes Vitamon D Added 'to Both Dried and Pasteurized Product — Other Notes T'hare is good reason to believe that from 50 to 96 per cent. of the young children suffer to some degree. from rielcets—the disease caused by lack of bone -hardening vitamin D. When it was discovered shat poverty-stricken thildrex, of the tropics who play in the elan are less likely than city ehildren to have bow -legs --one of the signs of rickets—it occurret. to Dr. Huldschin- sky that the ultra -violet rays in sun - lig -ht must have some effect on bone formation. He proved his theory by some striking. experiments with mer- cury-vapor lamps that emitted ultra- violet rays. When Drs. Hess and Steenbock in- dependently showed that foods which were not preventives of rickets could be made potent for that purpose merely by exposing them to ultra- violet rays, the case was complete. Cod-liver oil, for example, owes its vitamin content to the fact that fish devour sea food that has been irradi- ated by the sun. Milk is good be- cause cows digest grass turned green by the sun. Vitamins are affected by the heat. Pasteurized and dried milk therefore lose some of their more valuable pro- perties. For this reason babies fee on pasteurized milk are always e,.ven orange juice. It occurred to early in- vestigators that if pasteurized or dried milk were subjected to ultra- violet radiation vitamins would bre synthesized --especially the antirachi- tie vitamin D. The experiments were euccessfuL INTRODUCING VITAMIN D. Dr. G. C. Supplee, the director of an indu:.trial laboratory at Bain- bridge, N.Y., where the manufacture of dried milk is scientifically con- trolled, has now reduced this discov- ery to commercial practice by stanc'.- erdizing the exposures. He and his associates found that the rays do not penetrate more than a fraction of an Inch. ` Hence the milk is allowed to Dow in a very thin layer in the beams of a carbon arc. Reflectors distribute the rays evenly, and at constantly changing angles. The total exposure does not exceed sixteen seconds — not Brough to affect the milk chemically. Dr. Stipplee has thus activated 5,000 quarts of milk an hour at a cost of one twenty-fifth of a cent to the quart. Since it is important to know how intense the radiation is, Dr. Supplee makes exact measurements with a modified photo -electric cell. He i0e5 the cell much as any dairyman would use the thermometer, but in this case to control the temperature of the pasteurization. The work of Dr. Supplee is impor- tant because it is now possible for manufacturers of dried milk and pas teurizers to sell a uniform product that will meet the standards set by physicians so far as its contents •.ri. itamin le are concerned. THE BLESSINGS OF DUSTY AIR. One of the 'stock exhibit:. of com- nxattees organ'izeo to teach the public how to avoid contracting tuberculosis is a pair of miner's lungs, black with coal dust. Yet that biological revo- lutionist, Dr. J. B. S. Haldane of Cambridge University, rather start- led an audience of physiologists and bio -chemists at the University of Michigan by maintaining that dust, whether coal dust or rock dust, is not the menace it is commonly supposed to be. Rock dust by itself, Dr. Haldane admits, is a real danger. It consists of fine particles of silicates, each a little knife that cuts into lung tissue sed. this p'xoduces the disease known es silicosis. But rock dust mixed with coal dust is no health hazard. According to Dr. Held:see, coal dust et]mulates expectoration. As he clears his lungs and throat the miner gets rid of the coal dust as well as the rock dust that may be mixed with it. In fact the irritation produced by coal least may actually be a benefit of warding off silicosis. Gold miners in the quartz seams of the Rand in Recurring Weakness Mrs, Carr Finds Dr. Williams' Pink Pills Wonderfully Beneficial In Restoring Strength Feels Quite improved "I am a middle- aged woman, mar- ried 12 years. I havea weak heart and sometimes get so weak I can hardly move about," writes Mrs,. H. Carr, Port Carling, Ont, "I was advised to try Dr. Williams' Pink Pills and they have been a wonderful tonic to me. After telling three boxes, I feel quite proved and am able to walk again. consider De. Williams' Pink Pills a teat blueing to humanity." $. Rdre. Carr's high praise of Dr, Wfl- eras' Pink Pills is typical of what ousands of other grateful women floe written. These ills actual! p y Create the rich new blood which is !aching In ran -down, exhausted aye - terns, Growing girls in groat num- bers b.ave found Dr. Williams' Pink fills a veritable blessing, Older peo- e have equal need of them. Get supply from your druggist. 50e a 1age, etuth Africa are now being shifted to coal urines in order to teat this `theory. Just what constitutes "bete "air," the subject of Dr. Haldane's Michigan ad- dress, depends on what the viewpoint it, VW unquestionably pure air that' o1ie aviator breathes at 20,000 feet is '`bad'' in the sense that tri, re is not enough of it and that it exalts and leads to reckless acts. Air charged with rock dust, particles tossed up in the process of grinding cutlery, -sand, and minute bits of cotton "fluff" is bail because, if breathed continually, it may in uce tuberculosis and pneumo- nia. Apparently air charged with limestone and tiourmill dust is snot "bad" in this sense. PASTE VS. SCIENCE. Protests rise_froln gourmets. Good cooking means cleanliness is itself. But hygiene! The word smells of iodoform, carbolic acid, surgical dressings. A dish hygienically pre- pared tastes of the laboratory and not of the kitchen. And the glass shops with the sterilized air and the white -clad butchers—must we oe forever reminded of appendicitis? Cooking is an t,rt, not a surgical or chemical procedure. And so the con- servatives predict that the cordon bleu will continue to follow the tradi- tions of cleanliness, give all his senses a chance to judge the fitness of fool to be served in a casserole and leave the fear of bacteria to the white -tiled food factories, where ma- chines and thermometers are the real clocks. For the Slim Figure By HELEN WILLIAMS. Illustrated Dressmaking Lesson Fur- nished With Every Pattern Take one of the lovely new soft woolens, plaided, tiny self -check pat- tern or monotone, to fashion this charming daytime dress. For its col- lar, you can take white crepe silk or pique if you choose plain woolen. If novelty woolen is your choice, repeat one of the colors in a rough crepe silk or plain woolen and you are ready to start. Note the snxart buttoneu neckline. Another is the similar buttoned hip treatlnei t, so distinctly chic and slim- ming. Style No. 3289 is designed for sizes 14, 16, 18, 20 years, 36, 38 and 40 inches bust. Size 16 requires 21/$ yams 54 -inch with �a yard 35 -inch contrasting. HOW TO ORDER R PATTERNS, U'rite your name and address plain- Iy, giving number and size of gauch patterns as you want. Enclose 15c in stamps or coin (coin preferred; wrap it carefully) for each number, and address your order to Wilson Pattern Service, 73 West Adelaide Ste Toronto. Treatment of Poles Ottawa.—The tendency of a water- soluble salt when eat(' as a preserva- tive against decay to climb up the sap- wood to the top of the poles when they are placed in the ground has been the subject of investigation by the Forest Products Laboratories of Canada, For- est Service, Department of the In- terior. Work conducted in connection with this investigation indicates that poles treated with such watersoluble preservatives as zinc chlorides, are not !Demme for an indefliiite peelod to fungous attack in the vicinity of the ground -line, the Most vluneiable point, be cau,ze of the tendency of the a Ito to gradually creep up to the upper post of the pole. The motorist calleda t a Tillage pg shop and asked icor a toothbrush. "Sorry, sir," replied the shopkeeper, "we haven't got in our stock of Nein Year novelties yet." 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K,'s Weekly (London). In the old farm chimney Sane and I espied A poor shrivelled sb..l.ep's heart, BIack and mummified. • Tucked away upon the shelf, Where the flue begins, We found a sheep's heart, Stuck full of pins. How it cane to he there None could discover; Nor who had stuck the piss in: it To plagr her faithless lover, Who the jilted maiden was And who the truant swain, I could only wonder, And likewise -Jane. -• "How she must have sufferedt" Said Jane with a sigh— "She probably deserved to, And more," quoth I. "When she drove a pin home Did he feel a pain?" "I hope not," I answered, "I hope so!" said Jane -- "1 hope so, I hope so, I HOPE so!" Said Jane. A hope unaccompanied with a godly life had better be given up, and the sooner the better; for, if re- tained, it will prove as a spider's web when God shall take away the soul. —Aughey. ANSny ER RAle STNT E 11 I N 0 T T 7 F T E TO L -.,ST WEEK'S PUZZLE STICK S CANOE A Ale'DEPL 0 A29 DA E C 17 s R M I. N E K A M E BA E D T L, . 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The mountain creat section of the boundary and the 120th meridian as far north as township 97 hied been surveyed by an Interpro- vi>ea1 Boundary Commission and nearly all the map sheets are now available from the Topographical Sur- vey, Department of the Interior, Otta- wa, + Do You Know? ielieeNee }i, PMVAMUMMNal A* \.•y\ � - y`` -.. \ \ " Com^'' : ma000suroroc �kAbti«3b.v«.�R\3°kae •, , , s aet0Mk: 2RD Axa 'N. i That in Wainright 13u0,10 Park, Alberta, experiments have been carried out In cross -breeding buffalo and angus Battle in an en- deavor to produce a milk and food animal capable of withstanding the rigors of tho 'very ter North? 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