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Among the adulterations of butter is oleomargarine, made by churning with 

 cream, milk or buttermilk, tallow oil, deodorized grease, parts of animal tissue, 

 and other admixtures which are mixed with pure butter, and sold, or so reported, 

 as pure creamery or dairy, and eaten by the many supposing it to be so. I place 

 suine or butterine, as they are similarly made and used, in the same category 

 as oleomargarine. Dr. R. W. Piper reports having found eggs of tape-worm, 

 also bacteria and fungi, etc., in the oleomargarine. Dr. Cobold informs us that 

 the cysticercus, from which one kind of tape-worm springs, is found in the fat 

 of swine, and that it is not proven that it does not exist in the fat of the ox. It 

 is quite certain that the tape-worm in the human family is largely obtained, if 

 not wholly so, from the beef and swine eaten too rarely cooked. Now it is said 

 that lard or tallow used in making suine and oleomargarine never is heated 

 above 120 degrees F. If this be so, I would not wish to eat it. 



Prof. Virchow informs us that he boiled a cubic inch of pork for twenty 

 minutes and fed it to a rabbit and trichinosed the rabbit. 



There was a case reported from Iowa some years ago where a Mr. Bemus 

 and some three or four other members of his family ate of an uncooked ham 

 and died. Mrs. Lansing, a married daughter, ate from the same ham after boil- 

 ing for some time and was badly trichinosed, but finally recovered. Mr. Lansing- 

 ate from the same ham after boiling much longer and was not sick at all. There- 

 fore I say most emphatically, when you eat trichinae be sure that they are 

 well cooked, whether in suine, butterine, oleomargarine, or ham. 



Cook beef well whether in the foregoing bogus butters or in steak, and the 

 tape-worm will not be likely to visit you. 



Butter has been adulterated with a kind of magnesian earth called talc. 



Coffee when ground is frequently adulterated with chicory or succory, 

 which is a species of the garden endive, and is said to contain tonic, aperient, 

 deobstruent and diuretic qualities, and might be contra-indicated in diseases of 

 the kidney. It is also reported as having been adulterated when ground with 

 dried ground liver. Coffee in berry that is poor is made to take on a fine sur- 

 face by being placed in a heated and oiled copper cylinder, which is kept rolling 

 until the kernel assumes a nice, plump, green appearance. Not long ago I saw 

 a lady friend purchase some of this coffee. I asked if she usually washed her 

 coffee before roasting. She said no. I suggested that she wash this. The next 

 day I received a bottle containing water and sub-acetate of copper from her 

 with a note asking what it was. 



Now, ladies and gentlemen, having barely broached this subject of adultera- 

 tion, and not having time or space to further pursue it, I will leave it, and if you 

 will bear with me, will try to show you how these articles, or at least some of 

 them, may get into the human system. In order to do this understandingly, you 

 will please study with me the anatomy of the circulatory system for a few mo- 

 ments, commencing with the lacteals and lymphatics, which receive from the 

 ingesta that portion of it which enters the circulation and system proper. These 

 lacteals are located in connection with the bowels in the abdomen, the 

 lymphatics generally over the system. They both enter and pour their contents 

 into the thoracic duct which passes up through the thorax and empties its con- 

 tents into the left subclavian vein, and this in turn pours its contents into the 

 superior vena cava, from which it is received into the right auricle of the heart, 



