Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-07-10
Milk for RriGht,s Disease

The efficacy of milk in the promotion
of health and the cure of disease in the
human body has been much written
about by medical men, and its admins
tration practiced by many of them. Still
we doubt if the vast benefits its use NAV
bestow are half as well understood as
they should be. Sweet milk, warm
from the COW, skinned milk, sour milk,
butter milk, lined milk, each finds spe-
cial recommendation for special diseases
and each year adds to the favorable de-
velopments of the uses of all.
OF late years, especially in the United
States, the prevalence of that terrible and
fatal disease known as s'Bright's Disease
OF the Kidneys" has frightfully increased
Hardly daily paper can be picked up
but it chronicles deaths by this disease.
1t seems to attack all classes and both
sexes, youth, middle age and old age,
alike Unfortunately. The curative
powers of much advertised mineral
springs are invoked by the wealty, but
the grave seems to open the same, sooner
or later, for the victims of well defined
case of Bright's disease. The papers
TEEN with advertisements of patent
medicines warranted to cure, and per-
haps they do sometimes cure. but we fear
too often fail IN thousands of cases that
do not reach the public
But, as the Medical and .SurgicaJ Re-
porter, from which we take the follow.
ing, says, it becomes a medical question
of paramount interest that we should
discover some potent method of combat
ing it:
''Some years since Carel first called at
tentlon to the treatment of Bright's dis
ease by using a milk diet, and since
then Duncan, as well as many other
prominent physicians, have written on
this subject. We have ourselves seen
some remarkable results follow this
treatment, while DR.. S. Weir Mitchell,
of New York, is now quite an enthusi-
asst on this subject. This method of
treating formidable disease has received
a sufficiently distinguished Endorsement
to recommend it seriously to our notice.
We would, therefore, ask all physicians
who read this article to try this method
of treatment, and to furnish us with their
experience, which we will publish. The
milk is used thoroughly skinned and
entirely freed from butter To procure
the best results it has been advised that
the patient shall restrict himself abso-
solutely to milk and continue the treat
ment for long time. If it disagrees
with the stomach, las it will do IN some
cases. DR.. Mitchell advises that the pa
tient be put to bed, and the treatment
commenced with tablespoonful doses, to
which lime water is added, until the
stomach tolerates the milk, when from
eight to ten pints daily should be taken,
and absolutely nothing else. The sane
ton Of such a distinguished physician as
DR.. Mitchell forces us to seriously con-
slider the merits of this treatment, and
we trust to receive the experience of all
readers of this journal who may have
cases of Bright's disease to treat:
In late Baltimore paper, s"The Day."
we find the following regarding the case
of Gen. Robert G. Schenck, as given by
correspondent, which seems to point to
the efficacy of the milk treatment The
correspondent says:
sInstead of finding a very decrepit,
worn out, ON his last legs old man, as he
had been pictured in the newspapers, l
found an aged man it's true-he is over
20 years old-but one whose physical ap-
pearance gives assurance of some years
yet to enjoy this life. He SAID he had
been about given up some months ago as
incurable with Bright's disease of the
kidneys, when some one told him to use
skinned milk as his only diet. He says;
Il tackled the skim milk, stuck to it, and
here l am almost new man. l believe
the skinned milk Is specific for
Bright's disease"
In any event the remedy is simple and
harmless. 1t is inexpensive and at the
hands of ALL