“The ketones in our saliva won’t metabolize melted cheese.”

He also said …

“Melted cheese and fried food can back up to cause a bursting appendix. Pain first appears on the left side at the splenic flexure. The splenic flexure bulges to the back, an inverse dilation.”

David Riesman, M.D., & O.J. Kelly, M.D. (“Pathology and Bacteriology,” The American Year-book of Medicine and Surgery, Vol. 10, 1905) wrote …

“E.P. Joslyn (Boston), in a series of experiments to determine the action of various fats on the formation and excretion of β-oxybutyric acid and its derivatives (diacetic acid and acetone), found: 1. That conclusions as to the relative action of the various fats, administered as neutral fats, fatty acids, or soaps, upon the elimination of acetone are of little value without proof of their absorption. 2. Neutral fats, whether of the higher or lower fatty acids, do not increase the elimination of acetone in a healthy individual during starvation for 2 days. The glycerin which such fats contain suffices to prevent the acetonuria. 3. Oleic acid produces a marked acetonuria amounting to 34% and 97% above the control experiments in the healthy starving subject, while the same quantity of butyric acid is without effect. The poor absorption of palmitic acid and stearic acids suffices to explain the negative results obtained in this and other experiments. 4. Sodium palmitate produces a marked acetonuria in the healthy starving subject. This cannot be explained by the presence of the alkali. 5. Butyric acid does not increase the acetonuria in the healthy fasting individual.”

“Persistent or even cyclic albuminuria should cause anxiety, and indicate the advisability of further examination, extending over months, or even years. The mortality among persons with albuminuria, as indicated by the statistics of life-insurance companies, is extremely high.”