The Portland daily press., 1883-11-21
FACTS OBTAINED

Mt tina Free Hospital Of 30 beds for Nm fants
and Wsmen. with Chronic Diseases, Sup.
ported by the Murdoch Liquid Food Co..
Horton, Confirm the 7-Ysars, Invessfxa-
items of DIR. Orally Hewitt, Which He
Gave in the Opening AddI ess mt the Re-
cent Meeting of the British Medical Assoc
ciatiom.
Chronic Starvation and Delicate Females he
says, "for the last to years have tested by
carefully nquirng into the past history Of patients
mostly suffering from some uterine or ovarian
disease or some afiiction incidental to childbed.
and these conclusions have stood the test of this
long extended inquiry have to state the import
ant conclusion that continuous insuficiency of
foou, or what may be called chronic starvation
more or less Intense in different cases. was found to
have existed almost universally. Consequently l
have naturally been led to consider chronic starva
ton as most important factor In disease. y
ut is generally admitted, by authorities on the
subject of diet that nitrogen is the most essential
OF all foods and that q certain amount should be
quantity of food most frequently affects the nitro
gen. Meat Is the article of diet which, rule is
the source Of the greater part of the needed amount
OF nitrogen, for In England, at all events meat il
the popular article of food and in of chronic
starvation, we mostly find the quantity of meat
taken is exceedingly SMALL
Murdocls's liquid Food is the only raw
food Ixnewn, and is highly condensed aud
free of insaluble matter. Warranted 1856
sOlabIe matter where common food does mot
contain per cent. that is available, il can
be retained by the stomach when so weak
as 20 refuse water.
We quote from our Hospital re-
ports of cases such as DIR. Hewett
mentions.
Our ladies known by letters az each bed is let
tered. MrssK. was treated out of the hospital she
being 50 reduced from typhoid fever which left her
In relapse, that her life was deepaired of by all the
physicians who held consultations on her case She
was unable to take 20, 10 or drops of LIQUID
milk for 10 days, then had SO far recovered as to
enable her to down stairs and is gaining dali
", and able to sit up all day all accomplished in
What produces relapse in fever cases, Prof. r,
Demmie In his Investigations, 'found that the red
twelve 10 forty-eght hours of fever, in some cases
equal to one half their NUMBER
We 81. alt kao,o that person in q relapse can talk
and think, schich is labor 1t Is also fact that the
brain consumes one-fth of all the blood and IL is
only onefortieth of the body showing the cause of
50 many having relapse in fever and few recov-
eriDg from it.
Murdock's Liquid Food, given in fever, prevents
relapse as it makes blood faster than all prepare
tions known, and supplies the wastes that the dis
ease makes.
Mrs. N. has been suffering from uterine troubles
for year, no appetite; lost many pounds; no mon
So for four months In less than thirty days she re-
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 s months was unable to retain
any food except to ounces of milk daily, with
lime water; her weight reduced In one year 55
Obliged to take morphine daily in increasing quanti-
ties; she has been in the Hospital 2 months has
taken no morphine and after the first week able to
since; gaining one pound per week.
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