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soybean milk. Letter to Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, Battle
Creek Sanitarium, Battle Creek, Michigan, June 3. 1 p.
Typed, with signature on letterhead.
• Summary: Morse is sending Kellogg 12 pounds of
Bansei soybeans, the type Morse found most promising for
making soybean milk. “I wish to thank you for the bottle
of Soy Acidophilus which one of your assistants brought
to Washington a few weeks ago. I like this milk very much
and am planning to use the acidophilus culture with some
soybean milk.” Address: Senior Agronomist, Div. of Forage
Crops and Diseases, Bureau of Plant Industry, USDA,
Washington, DC.
105. Barton, William S. 1936. Our expanding universe: A
department interpreting the news in science. Los Angeles
Times. Aug. 30. p. I-15.
• Summary: It is now being asserted that soy bean milk
provides a new and more effective way of “introducing
lactobacillus acidophilus, a friend of the human race, into
the human body.” More than 20 billion of “these friends
can be introduced, it is claimed, by swallowing a single
tablespoonful of cultured bean milk.”
106. Good Health (Battle Creek, Michigan). 1936. Healthful
recipes. 71(8):249. Aug.
• Summary: Contains recipes for: Baked soy bean
sandwiches (using canned baked soy beans). “Soy
acidophilus ice cream” (using 1½ Soy Acidophilus Milk, 2½
cups cream, various fruit juices, rinds, and grated pineapple).
107. Kellogg, John Harvey. 1936. Regimen and technic for
changing the intestinal fl ora. Good Health (Battle Creek,
Michigan) 71(8):230-33. Aug.
• Summary: The author offers a four-step plan which “has
been found effi cient in the treatment of hundreds of cases
requiring change of the intestinal fl ora.” These include:
“1. Liberal carbohydrate feeding (Lactose, Dextrin, Lacto-
Dextrin). 2. Discarding of fl esh meats (Combe) of all sorts.
3. Increasing the activity and effi ciency of the colon so as to
secure complete clearance of the intestinal tract at least once
in twenty-four hours. 4. Liberal feeding of a potent culture of
L. acidophilus.
In place of “animal proteins,” one should use “milk
and vegetable proteins.” Note that “milk proteins are less
putrescible than are fl esh proteins, and besides are protected
against putrefaction by the presence of lactose.” “The peanut
and the soy bean supply a high percentage of protein of most
excellent quality... The soy bean provides a basic protein of
high quality, and is rich in food minerals and vitamins and
has the added advantage that it stimulates the development of
the protective fl ora. This gives to the soy bean special value
in efforts to change the fl ora by special feeding. All soy bean
products are to be recommended, especially a milk prepared
from this legume which closely resembles ordinary milk in
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appearance and composition.”
Avoid all medical laxatives, which seriously interfere
“with the effort to develop or implant a protective fl ora...
Only purely physiologic means may be employed, such as
liberal increase of bulkage (Kaba, psyllium seed, agar) and
the enema.”
108. Battle Creek Food Co. 1936. Re: The Dionne
quintuplets and soy acidophilus milk. Letter to Hon. David
Croll, Minister of Public Affairs, Parliament Buildings,
Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Sept. 17. 2 p. Typed, without
signature (carbon copy).
• Summary: “On inquiry of Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe you will
learn that under his advice the quintuplets make daily use of
soy acidophilus milk, a preparation which has cured them
of bowel trouble and keeps them free from this distressing
ailment. For many months, under instruction from Dr. John
Harvey Kellogg, who gave us the formula for making soy
acidophilus milk, we supplied the quintuplets with this
preparation without charge and even paid the expense of
transportation by parcel post. For several months we have
been supplying it at a nominal cost. Dr. Dafoe has mentioned
the use of acidophilus in papers published in medical
journals and the same fact has been broadcast through the
newspaper press.”
“We are anxious that other infants, thousands of whom
are dying of this same trouble every year, should have the
benefi t of this most effi cient and practically unfailing remedy
for this very common affection from which all bottle-fed
babies are likely to suffer and with a mortality rate of ten
times that of breast-fed infants.
“We are preparing to introduce this preparation to
both the profession and the public end desire to refer to the
experience of the quintuplets as evidence that the claims
made for the preparation are valid.
“Will you kindly write us whether we will be expected
to pay a royalty for mentioning the fact that soy acidophilus
milk is used by the quintuplets and, if so, how much.”
Address: Battle Creek, Michigan.
109. Kellogg, John Harvey. 1936. Re: Soy acidophilus milk
and the Dionne quintuplets. Letter to Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe,
The Dionne Quintuplet Guardianship, Callander, ONT,
Canada, Sept. 21. 2 p. Typed, without signature (carbon
copy).
• Summary: “We are seeing such wonderful results from the
soy acidophilus milk that I feel the time has come when it
should be placed before the public so that a larger number
of people may benefi t by it... this business of making soy
acidophilus milk is a purely philanthropic effort. No one
will make any money out of it. The patents have been turned
over to the Race Betterment Foundation and any profi t will
be used for educational work along health lines, chiefl y
the support of Battle Creek College... The manufacture of