The Portland daily press., 1883-10-24
FACTS OBTAINED

at the Free Hospital OF 30 beds for a. fans
and Women with Chronic Diseases, sup
POrted by the MurdOck s.iquid Food Co.,
RO ION, Confirm the w mrs. Bnves,fga-
tiona Of Dr. Orally Hewitt, Which He
Gave in a. e Opening Add ess at the Re-
cent Meeting of the British EE edic al $50
citation.
"Chronic Starvation and Delicate Females" he
says, "for the last to years / have tested by
carefully nquiriag into the past history Of patients
mostly suffering from some uterine or ovarian
disease or some affliction Incidental to childbed
and these conclusions have stood the test of this
long extended inquiry. have to state the import
ant conclusion that continuous insutficency of
food, or what may be called chronic starvation ;
more or less tense in different cases found to
have existed almost universally. Consequently
have naturally been led to consider chronic starva-
ton as most important factor in disea4e. y
"It is generally admitted, by authorities on the
subject of diet, that nitrogen is the most essential
of all foods and that a certain amount should be
taken daily. 1t appears that the elimination in
quantity of food most frequently affects the nitro
gen. Meat Is the article of diet which, as a rule is
the of the greater part of the needed
of nitrogen, for in England, all events, meat is
the popular article of food and in of chronic
starvation, mostly find the quantity of meat
taken is exceedingly SMALL
Murdocik's Liquid Food is ihe only raw
food known, and is highly condensed aud
soluble matter where COnsmO "a food does NOT
be retained by the stomach when so weak
10 refuse water.
we quote from our Hospital re-
ports of eases such as Dr. Hewett
mentions.
Our ladies are known by letters as each bed is let
tered. Mrs. X. was treated out of the hospital she
being reduced from typhoid fever which left her
in relapse, that her life despared of by all the
physicians who held consultations her case. She
unable to take 20, 10 or drops of Liquid
Food, but did retain drops every hour in little
milk for IL d Us then had so far recovered as to
enable her to come down stairs, and is gaining dali
~ and able to sit up all all accomplished in
less than three weeks.
What produces relapse in fever cases, Prof. R.
Demmie, in his investigations. found that the red
corpuscles are greatly reduced in the first
twelve to forty-eght hours of fever, in cases
equal to one halt their number
We all kRolv that person in O. relapse can talk
and think, which is labor 1t is also fact that the
brain consumes one-tfth of all the blood and it is
only one-fortieth of the body showing the cause of
SO many having relapse in fever, and so few recov
eri from it.
Murdock's Liquid Food given in fever prevents a
relapse it makes blood faster than all prepara-
tions known, and supplies the wastes that the dis
makes
Mrs. N. has been suffering from uterine troubles
for year, no appetite; lost many pounds; no mem
for four months. In less than thirty days she
covered her appetite, also menses, and had gained
seven pounds, and is now able to return and take
care of her family.
Mrs. o. for to months was unable to retain
any food except to ounces of milk daily with
lime wateI; her weight reduced IN one year 90
pounds; suffering from many complaints, she was
obliged take morphine daily in increasing quanti-
ties; she has been in the Hospitsl months, has
taken morphine, and after the first week able 10
re ain common food, and has gained seven pounds
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