Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-06-28

Considerable has been lately said in med
ical journals, concerning the value OF mill
as remedial agent in certain diseases. and
we mud the following statement bearing
upon the subject in one Of our exchanges
"An interesting article upon this subject
lately appeared in the London Mitk Jour
nal, in which il is stated ON authority Of
DR.. Benjamin lsrke that in The East Indies
warm milk is used to great extent as 9
specific for disrrhea. A pint every fouI
hours will check the most violent diarrhes,
stomsch ache, ineipient cholera an / dyson
terry. The milk should never be boiled, but
only heated sufficiently to bs agreeably
warm, not too hot to driuk. Milk which
has ,een boiled is unfit for use. Tbs writer
| give several instances to show the value OF
this simple Substance in srresting this dis
ease, among which is the following. The
writer says: sit has never failed in curing
in six to twelve hours, and l have tried il,
l should think fifty times. L have
also given it to dying man who had been
subject to dysentery eight months, latterly
accompanied by one continual diarrhea;
and it acted on him like charm. In two
days his diarrhea wss gone; in three weeks
he became hale, fat man, and now moth
ing that may hereafter occur viii ever shake
bis faith in hot milk A writer also COM
municates to the Medical Times and Gazette
a statement of the value Of milk in twenty
six cases Of typhoid feye-, in every one OF
which its great value was apparent. 1t
checks diarThea, and nOurishcs and cools
the body. People suffering from disease
require food cutie IS much as those in
health, and mich mose so iE certain diseases
where mere is rapid waste in the system.
Frequently III ordinary food in certain
diseases is rejected hy the stomach, and
even loathed by the patient; but nature,
ever beneficent, has furnished food
that In all diseases is benetieial-in some
directly curative. Such food is milk.
The writer in the Journal last quoted, DR..
Alexander Yale, after giving particular OBJ.
servations upon he points above mention
ed, viz, its action in checking diarrhes, its
nourishing properties, and its action in cool
ing the body, says: "We believe that milk
nourishes in fever, prom ties sleep, wards off
delirum, soothes the intestines, and, in fine,
is the sine qua non in typhoid fever" We
have also lately Tested the value of milk in
scarletIfeyer, and learn that it is now re-
commented by the med cal faculty in all
cases of this often very distressing chilt-
ren's disease. Give ali the milk the patient
will take, eYeni during tbs period Of
greatest fever; it keeps up the strength Of
the patient, acts well upon ths stomach,
and is every way blessed thing in this
sickness. Parents, remember ii, and do
not fear TO give it if your dear ones are If-
ficted with this disease"
We copy the above for what it may be
worth. Long experience in the use of
milk has given Us high estimate Of its
vs. ne as al article of human food, and there
are sverAl ways in which it may aid in re-
storing health TO diseased body not sug-
gested in the above remarks. 1t takes up
acrid bile, and shields in some degree the
often irritsted inner surface of the stomach
and bowels. Milk is natures food in its
pure, soluble, and most harmless form, yet
there are diseases ard constitutional pecu-
Iiarities with which milk is not in harmo-
ny. Bad habits, derived from savsges, and
our semi-saysge life. make Us prefer flesh
like beef and bacon, to milk, as cur every
day food. Four thousand years ago the
Hebrews knew that hog meat was unheal-
Thy in a warm climate. White savages liv-
ing in colder climate in Europe, thought |
hog meat healthy and we inherit their
notion.