TREATMENT OF CONSUMPTION

Otago Witness, Issue 3698, 27 January 1925, Page 17

TREATMENT OF CONSUMPTION

SOME REMARKABLE RESULTS. CHRISTCHURCH, January 23. Some remarkable results in the treatment of consumption by a diet of fruit and green vegetables have been obtained by a leading Christchurch medical man who was interviewed yesterday. As me doctor is a member of the Eiitish Medical Association he is unable by the rules of that body to allow his name to lie published. He stated that he had several patients who had been given up by the Cashmere Sanatorium and also given up by other doctors as beyond all aid. When they came to him he put them on nil absolute starvation diet at first, and afterwards put. them wholly on to a fruit and vegetable diet, mostly uncooked. In this way he had got come wonderful results with patients who were thought to be beyond all hope of relief. Although so far as he could see, there was no hope of curing these patients entirely, they were getting along and enjoying life, and, for invalids, feeling “jolly well” indeed. The doctor added that everything had been done without any drugging whatever. but on a diet of fruit and green vegetables after a last lasting for about a week. This method of treatment was quite contrary to the accepted theory, which was to give patients a stuffed diet. Nature sometimes cured tuberculosis by depositing calcium or lime -n the tissue. Doctors usually gave lime to their patients in an organic form, which was not a bit of good from a medicinal point of view. The way to give lime was in the organic form par excellence, such as spinach (uncooked) and celery. lie prescribed for his T.B. patients ns much spinach, celery, lettuce, and other uncooked green vegetables as they couM tolerate.