CURED BY DIETING.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 11636, 14 August 1905, Page 6

CURED BY DIETING.

A New Treatment foi* Consumption.

Consumption is cured in New York by a simple dispensary cure. Five verified cases were discharged on June 11 as entirely cured from the Post-Graduate Medical- School and Hospital, where all the treatment Was given. The institution, authorities made official announcement 'of such results.

A remarkable feature of the cures i 3 that medicine played a very small part in working them, scientific dieting having been the jwincipal method followed. Another noteworthy fact is that .the patients — a tailor, a barber, and a. .cook, a woman, and a guard — continued their work during thn treatment, which lasted from two years in the, case of the tailor, to .two months in .tho instance of the 1 «

, All the cures wore absolute, according to Dr. Bickerton and Dr. Bars^y, authorities on pulmonary diseases. Credit for the results is given to Dr. Russell, who-, with the support of the PostGraduate authorities, undertook in March, 1898," to demonstrate by a series of experiments that cases of nnconvplicated pulmonary tuberculosis could be successfully coped with by dispensary attention 'without obliging the consumptives to have a change of climate or abandon their work. Since that time forty-two cases, including the ones in qixestion, have .been passed on n'urod by the committee*. The treatment is founded upon the fact Ihat consumption is a result of malnutrition, and, that in a healthy, body the consumption germs have no chance of'existence. It aims to build up the body by a scientific diet -faster than the. disease can break it down. In this diet, varying though it doe 3 with the circumstances of individual cases, eggs, millc, cheese, and fats are prominent — the fat being designed to supply the necessary heat and energy, thus saving the protoids in other substances "for \\se in building up tissue. In order to make sure that the patients consume the proper quantity of food, they are made to report at the Pos1;-Graduato dispensary twice a day, and. drink . there a cupfiil of an emulsion of fairs. The hours at the, dispensary are arranged for the convenience of the working people, and the "class," as it is called, assembles early in. the' morning, and afj;er -work in the evening.^ Every. Sunday morning the patients are weighedj the gain in pounds be.ing both an index of thorr progress toward recovery and evidence of their faithfulness in carrying out the prescribed" rules.