Nelson Evening Mail THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1905. ANOTHER CONSUMPTION "CURE." THE JUICES OF VEGETABLES.

Nelson Evening Mail, 19 October 1905, Page 2

Nelson Evening Mail THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1905. ANOTHER CONSUMPTION " CURE." THE JUICES OF VEGETABLES.

YET another allogod cur.c for consumption is now ly.*ing exploited in England and America— Dr KusseU s, of is'ew York. It has the endorsement of some well-known memfjc-r** of the medical profession, including i.r Josiah Oldfleld, founder of the /Fruitarian Hospital, at Bromluv near London, who -K associated with the popularising i scientific subjects iby • means ol lectures and pamphlets. But at th( same time a warning is given tiial ,no assumed cure can be i'e&urded as a panaceia. Dr Russell's "cure' may or may not tie effective. As laymen we are not in a. position U pronounce any opinion. But it maj be of interest, a nd use, to sufferer; to give such details as are ' availeJiJjm through the press, and lot eaoh individual concerned judgo. » » * • The "cure" first came under notice by discussion caused by the is sue of a private and corifidentaa circular fco all prominent physicians im. New York from the New Yorl Post-Graduate Hospital. It nun nouuced the discovery of a vegis taJble fluid which it was believei would prove a cure for aonsaimp tion. The circular describes th method of preparing* the litijiid a; follows : "Elqaial pants of woight o raw -vegataibles soruhlbod with i brush in fresh water, then mixe< and chopped until the parts ari small enough to go into the reoeav •** of a grinding machine-, where tih< mass is reduced to a pulp. Fron the pulp aro collected the juices which are squeezed out through i coarse muslin cloth. The 'machine are designed to tear and grind th mass rather than to cut it up. Thi vegetables first used are potato onion, beet, turnip, oablbtogie an< celery ; later aro added sweat pota to, apple, pineapple, carrot, par snip, and still later rhubarb, sum mer squash, tomatp, spinach, ra dishes, string beans, -ami green pea with the pods.' r This juice is pra parad every day at the hjo<sp<ital< aiu kept on ice. Each patient receive two ounces twice a day aft(c-rnn*efels •« • •• * . ■ An analysis of the mixed vegp talble juice showed the following -re suits :— Wat'CT 92.53 per cent, starcl 1.02, di saccharides (cane sugar etc.), .81 ; monosaccharides (glu cose, etc.), 2.04, pern toses aiiid pen tosans, traces ; fat, .40 ; essentia oils (volatile), .11 ; essential oil.' (»on vplatile), .04 • colouring mat ter, ,22 ; ftlWaloid-al 1 salts, trace tartaric acid, ,73 ; cellulose, .21 malic, succinic, n»d oxalic acids trace ; volatile acids (calculated a* acetic), .24 ; tannin, <tr ft ce X pro tecid (nitrogen multiplied toy 6.25) An AinerTcaii' correspondent o wew Zealand papers, writing recently from C-hicagp, sai<j that th*evjuic< if KJ yen w»th a 4iet cxjnsistin* largely of milk, and that'll w7i averred that th* mWta ql many months of exhaustive ond coath experiment showed complete cures in cvS ll S Sane\ ance S Uiß furt *ier , declared that eleven subjects <w\ho, aun^ mil f ,ngthe traat^o^ht, Tver riS^ 8 f l om consumption W re svJlvects for a ljf e insurcmce risk It is also stated that fifty (Sietnnstfl} „ " ndcr treatment \lT\w Kg ffi V elerao »t, heretofore tients as were C% as many pan twelve months d,Bmisged

enaeuve or a s non-effective as Sat B S Cy fld F^a;fan°S>spit° a ■cg«m»Pti^ a. tt^fiSSS? 1 thl ?£Tftv Llood corpuscles of iJn^&i and si st them to eni,Mn^ J/^ 1 pmv t, r to combat tubera^L^ aso - B » t at Bromley no advanced cases^ of consumption are <f/ n y Dr + u Ol^ field PUts raisins fai above other fruit or vegetables for the purpose of the juice treatment. They are found much superior to grapes, because not only are raisin? sound grapes originally but the^ sugar has Leon thoroughly matured and ripened and transformed ready for digestion. Of 'all vegetables Dr Oldfleld ilnds raw carrots— Ser aped , not chopped— the Best. Cooked vegetables, according to Pr Oldfleld, lose a groat part of their virtue, as the chief salines ane thrown away in the water used for v bojling. CaMSage, rhubarl), and other vegetables that crow rapidly are reemrded by Dr Oldfleld «c ef douhtful value. This is fn a n«a|sur« Sue t« tfa«. fact that in England tliey are often grown on sewage farms, and their fapid development prevefttri |h>W

'rom having a completely organised tissue ior t>he hitman organs to Eeed upon. Ur .Oldtoeld has little to say iiv.7fav6ur of the potato ; but he is a-tjieat believe*"-^not in beery out itf yth'e 4quor of grains as one ot'the most important causes of : i-S stamina of- the Kngiish people. Xt til inks that one«of the factors ip, , io...oting the growth o£ the Bri-. L...M race 'has been the old dish .of •*. unenty," made of barleycorn. He stays that the former, beer of kngland was much more of the nature of barley tea than alcoholic beei' of the present da j-,- and the merits of the beverage consisted hot of its alcohol but of its barley salts. In other words, the sweet wort of the old British farmhouse breweries, which was really matt tea, contained a largo quantity of nerve food. It should be explained,, however, that Dr Oldfield is no believer in intoxicants, for he adds with regard to his references to the use of malt liq-uor in nerve building :— "ln my opinion, there is the essential value of the early beer, or as it really was, malt tea. I believe in that form of beer—l think alcohol ia an injurious addition to make' it keep." In writing about aUeged cures for various human diseases oiie has to be careful to avoid two pitfalls— that into .which the" over-sa-nerniiie and over-crodulous fall ; and thet whieh'nL* set for the feet of the absolutely sceptical. In these columns frequent ventilation has been given to various "curas" ; but. always it has been first ascertained, that if used the medic v. tent or method, if it can do no good, oan do little if any harm. We ar6 informed that the description of the simple milk sheet in i'ever, rheumatism, etc., given in these columns, haa been the means of alleviating the sufferings of raa.iy. IMiOlasses in cancer has alleviated if it has not cured, causing no iH. Similarly. tlie taking of a moderate -.-"uitntity of kerosene for rheumatism has done some persons good, find there has been no evidence of anyone suffering harm. In these circumstances wo feel justified in placing before those interested tho ideas now in circulation with regard to vegetable juices for the alleviation of consumption. More will doubtless be heard of the Russell "cure," if it proveall that is hoped from it. But meantime it is within the ability of aU to make use of the simple processes of extracting unfenmonted vegetable juices Or teas from our common garden products, raisins, barley, etc.. and their use, if it do no good, will certainly do no haim.