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consumption of meat”).
Note: This is the earliest English-language document
seen (June 2009) that uses the term “immature green
soybeans” to refer to green vegetable soybeans. Address:
Chemist, Agric. Exp. Station, Newark, Delaware.
141. Good Health (Battle Creek, Michigan). 1938. A special
milk for bottle-fed babies. 73(6):179-80. June.
• Summary: This special milk is prepared from the soybean,
which the Chinese call “the honorable bean” and which has
“for thousands of years been found a perfect substitute for
breast milk [sic] in the feeding of babies deprived of their
natural food supply. Soybean milk looks like cow’s milk, and
tastes much like it, and is more easily digestible and richer in
lime and iron, though in other respects much like dairy milk.
The great virtue of soy milk is that it encourages the growth
of the wonderful protective germ acidophilus with which
every nursling is inoculated by contact with its mother’s
breast.”
“Many foods discourage the growth of the acidophilus,
especially greasy and fried foods, hamburger steak and
sausage, as do also alcohol, tobacco and laxative drugs.
Bread and milk, breakfast foods, bananas and fresh fruits
and vegetables of all sorts encourage the growth of friendly
germs, which differ from ordinary buttermilk germs chiefl y
in the fact that they are able to grow in the colon, whereas
the buttermilk germs die at the level of the stomach because
they cannot survive without oxygen, while acidophilus can
obtain its oxygen from sugar of milk, dextrin and some other
carbohydrates.
“One to three glassfuls of soy acidophilus milk taken
daily will keep the colon free from offensive gases and foul
odors, clear the skin and the tongue, sweeten the breath and
promote better appetite and a sense of fi tness to a remarkable
and almost unbelievable degree. Every bottle-fed baby
should receive a teaspoonful of soy acidophilus milk at each
feeding as an almost certain protection against the bowel
troubles of bottle-fed infants.”
142. Good Health (Battle Creek, Michigan). 1938. Colonic
irrigation found benefi cial. 73(9):280. Sept.
• Summary: In autointoxication of intestinal origin, colonic
irrigation is far more effective than the ordinary enema.
Patients with this disorder require a strictly antitoxic diet;
that is, the avoidance of meats of all sorts. The food should
be chewed carefully. “Acidophilus cultures, especially soy
acidophilus, and Lacto-Dextrin should be used in suffi cient
quantities to change the intestinal fl ora; that is, to arrest
putrefaction and produce non-odorous stools, with the
absence of intestinal gas.”
Note: This is the earliest English-language document
seen (June 2003) that uses the term “colonic irrigation” to
refer to a method for changing the intestinal fl ora.
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143. Glotova, E.V.; Chebotareva, S.V. 1938. [The infl uence
of lactic acid microorganisms on the formation of toxin by
B. botulinus in acid soybean milk preparations]. Voprosy
Pitaniia (Problems of Nutrition) 7(3):132-39. (Chem. Abst.
34:7325). [8 ref. Rus; ger]
Address: 1. Abteilung fuer anaerobe Infektionen (Vorst).
144. Battle Creek Food Co. 1938? Overcoming intestinal
poisons with soy acidophilus milk. Battle Creek, Michigan. 8
panels. Undated. 16 x 6 cm each. Front and back.
• Summary: Contents: Soy acidophilus milk changes the
fl ora when other means fail. When the protective fl ora is lost.
Why soy acidophilus succeeds. How to change the fl ora.
Simple rules for changing the fl ora. Who should use soy
acidophilus.
“The soy bean is rich in vitamin A, the growthpromoting
vitamin which cereals lack, as do ordinary beans,
and also the fertility vitamin E.
“Von Noorden, Neumann, and other eminent European
physicians, highly recommend soy products in diabetes, as
did the late Professor Dujardin-Beaumetz.
“Soy acidophilus milk contains only about one-third as
much fat as does cow’s milk, and its fat (lecithin) does not
fatten [sic]. Soy acidophilus is thus especially valuable in
cases of obesity. It may be freely used without increasing
weight. This has been proven by experiments upon both
animals and human beings. Rats do not gain in weight on a
soy milk diet. On soy milk they reproduce freely, showing
the presence of the fertility vitamin (Daniels and Hutton).
On cow’s milk they seldom reproduce and their young rarely
survive.
“Soy acidophilus is especially recommended for
persons who have failed in their efforts to change their fl ora
by acidophilus milk, Lacto-Dextrin, or other means. The
combined use of soy acidophilus and Lacto-Dextrin will,
we believe, change the fl ora in every case in which they
are faithfully and persistently used.” Address: Battle Creek,
Michigan.
145. Stegman, Henry M. 1939. The soybean a blessing to
mankind. Good Health (Battle Creek, Michigan) 74(1):11.
Jan. [1 ref]
• Summary: “A promising fi eld in this country is the
employment of soybean milk for medicinal purposes. In the
stomach this gives a very fi ne, fl occulent precipitate instead
of the large, tough curds of cow’s milk. The period of stay
in the stomach is thus made much shorter, and the peristaltic
motion of the stomach is less and more coordinated. It also
curdles at a lower acidity...
“The defi ciency of the soybean ash in sodium and the
large excess of potassium makes the food an important
alkalinizing agent... The standard which gives milk an
alkalinity of 0.5, places that of the soybean at 12...
“The soy acidophilus milk which the Dionne quintuplets