The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1873-05-03
MIX and Flannel for Chronic DiarrhTa.
From the Plattsburg Register.

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| The following has been handed to us, after
conversation with one of our most useful and
distinguished citizens, who mainly attributes
his recovery from the disease which 50 long
maintained itself, by relapses and otherwise
against the ordinary medical prescriptions, to
his long persistence in the use of milk and
| tlanncl--in his case the common skmmilk
after the first week or so, and drank through
the day and night, to the exclusion of water,
according to his own inclination and iudg-
ment
His other diet has been IA cup Of tea or cot.
fee, with well cooked beef or eggs for break.
fast and dinner, and dish of similarly well
sailed and we'll cooked mush with his milk
| for supper-but never indulging his appetite
beyond the most selt.denying judgment. To
this it cannot be Objectionable to add that
those who contrast the present apparent con.
dition of the venerable judge referred to with
what it was few months ago, will probably
require no additional incentive to adopt his
recent "way of life" should they fall into
what seemed for long period to be his proba-
BILE "way to death"
The article therefore, which was inClOscd
to the judge by some unknown friend, through
the post office, and to the suggestions of
which, in connection with the use of we'll
fitting double flannel bandage, from the ribs
to the hips Gas recommended by another news
paper article, similarly inclosed to him, he
attributes the gradual and gratifying restora-
ton of his health and strength is reproduced
as follows:
MILK AS A REMEDIAL AGENT
Considerable has been said lately in medi-
cal journals concerning the value of milk as
a remedial agent in certain diseases. We no
tirn ~ iptnrnctipu rti lola tbip .
in the London WtM JouymdL in which it is
stated, on the authority of DR.. Benjamin
Clark, that in the East Indies warm milk is
used to great extent as Il specific for Diar-
rhpa. A pint every four hours will check the
most violent diarrhpa, stomach ache, inclpi-
cnt cholera and dySentery. The milk should
never be boiled, but only heated sufficiently
to he agrccably warm not too hot to drink.
Milk which has been boiled once is unfit for
use.
The writer gives several instances to show
the value of this simple substance in arrest
ing this disease, among which is the follow
ing: at has never failed in curing me in six
or twelve hours, and have tried it, | should
think fifty times. | have also given it to "A
dying man who had been subject TO dysen-
terry eight months, lattcrly accompanied by
one continual diarrAwa, and it acted ON him
llht II NlldlHl. III iNb udNS HIS tluIIHfd was
gone; in three weeks he became hale, fat
man, and now nothing that will hereafter oc-
cur will ever shake his faith in the hot milk
theory"
A writer also communicates TO the W6dicdl
Times and Gdzefte II statement of the value of
milk i'll twcnty-siN cases of typhoid fever, in
every one of which its great value was APP
parent 1t checks diarhGa, and nourishes
and cools the body. People suffering from
disease require food quite AS much as those
in health, and much more so in certain dis
eases where there is rapid waste of the sys-
TEN. Frequently all ordinary food in certain
diseases is rejected by the stomach, and loath-
ed by the patient; but nature, ever bcneficcnt
has furnished food that in all diseases is bene-
tlcial-in some directly curative. Such food
is milk.
The writer in the journal last quoted. Dr.
Alexander Yale, after giving particular oh
servationS on the points above mentioned,
viz: its nourishing properties, and its action
in cooling the body, says: I'VE believe that
milk nourishes in fever, promotes sleep, wards
OIL delirium, and in fine, is the sine 9Ud non
in typhoid fever. We have also lately tested
the value of milk in scarlet fever, and learn
that il is now recommended by the medical
faculty in all cases of this often distressing
children's disease. Give all the milk the pa
tient will take; even during the period of the
greatest fever it keeps up the strength of the
patient, acts well upon the stomach, and in
every way is a great and blessed thing in
sickness"