"Much Less Harmful Than Alcohol."
Starving Russians who are compelled to eat a mixture of grass clay are receiving undue sympathy, in the opinion of Dr.
Blob, an eminent French surgeon, who declares that earth-earth-eating is not so harmful to health as the daily use of even a small quantity of alcohol.
The Paris correspondent of the Central News quotes the doctor as saying:—'"Geophagists have been known since the earliest times. The whole question is one of adapting the human organs to the use of strange foods, which is merely a matter of time and conquering the first pangs of hunger.
"Some soils in Russia, India, and Persia have always been sought by the natives for their health-giving qualities.
"In the territory of Hela in India there is a blackish soil known as Tschouma, which is constantly used as a sweetmeat when mixed with small quantities of ordinary grasses and leaves."
of Tschouma also are found in the Scientists say that certain forms {Ural region, and it is likely that ithe sight of earth-eating "which appalled investigators was merely a harmless indulgence. in an age-old known to appease.
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