Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1886-09-03
CONSUMPTION.
WILL 1T EVER BE CUREDs
Interesting Conversation With a Pny-
sician.

sician.
Having occasion to consult an old ply.
stefan for some affection of the lungs, the
question was asked:
will consumption ever be curedf'
Yes, l believe so. But before we arrive
at that point there will need be a better
understanding of minute anatomy and
physiology. do not think there are many
even in the profession who understand or
can explain what is meant by the terms
life and health"
Can you give me any ideaH
II Will try. III you were to take from
any part of your body the smallest particle
of tissue, say as large as a pin head, and
place 1t under the slide of microscope of
500 diameters, you would find it to consist
of living and non-living matter. If you
watch the living particle you would see it
move and grow; by and by it would divide
itself into two or more bodies like itself.
In the process of growth it has thrown off
from itself the substances 1t could not use.
This is neutrality-suspicious.. Now the whole
body consists of these little living bodies
which absorb from the blood the nutrition
they require for growth. The non-living
matter serves TO connect them with each
other, and is called connection tissue
Now these bioplasts dividing bodies) are
endowed with the power of natural selec.
ton, thus: The bioplasts of a muscle will
ISluSc earthly HltlttT, anu u zone DlOplaSt
will refuse tibrin. Each performs the
work itself, independent of the other.
The aggregate of the mating and growth
of each one is life. The perfect perform
ance of the duty of each, the selection
from the blood of their proper pabulum
and its perfect digestion Uor these bio
plasts do digest), cons titute health. Life
and health therefore depend on the healthy
condition of the living particles of which
the body is composed. Thus, you have
very small pimple sn your face. One of
those bioplasts has become sick; its body
has become converted by bad digestion
into pus, but it has not ceased to live. 1t
has only become something else. The pus
bloplast (Which rapidly reproduce them.
selves), increase i'll great numbers, and
pushing aside the healthy bodies sur
rounding it, shows itself on your skin.
Y GU break it and letout the bioplasts (pus);
under the microscope you will see them.
They also are healthy bioplasts. They
have obeyed the law of their growth, but
they have taken from that growth so
much nutrient material from the blood.
Now multiply that one little bioplasmc
growth by a million, and reckon the
amount OF nutrition required to sustain
them. Now take another view. The
myriads of bioplasts, of which the body is
composed, require constant food. The
blood must keep them supplied day and
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they can digest, or they refuse it and
starve. The result of the death of bio
plasm is an increase of non-living matter
The body becomes emaciated. The con.
nective tissue shrinks. The remaining
bioplasts, improperly nourished, fail in
their work. Some degenerate into pus,
and others into waste material tethero-
matous deposits); not getting the food
they desire, they take what they can get.
The bioplasts of the lungs, for instance
will eat earthly matters and consequently
the matters thrown off by them consist of
calcereous substances. This irritates the
surrounding delicate bioplasts and dis
tnrbance results. All tuberculous matter
consists of lime. In the effort to get rid
of this irritating substance, more blood is
sent TO the part and inflammation las W e
say is set up. The irritation of the minute
nerve fiber produces cough. The begin
ming then of consumption is some defect
in the preparation of the food of bioplasm.
| We give cod liver oil, whisky, beef tea and
a thousand things to tempt their appetites,
but it does not often do. How to remedy
the defect of digestion and assimilation is
the problem that once solved, consump
tfon will be cured"
But cannot you feed patients on some
particular diet that shall cure the defect
of digestiong
That has been tried for hundreds OF
years and failed If we knew exactly the
chemical charactero of the food for bioplasts
it would do, but you have to take this into
consideration. The bioplasts of the mouth
secrete saliva (ptalin), which converts
starch into sugar. In the stomach art
glands which produce Tactic acid-pepsin
mucous. The salt in food is hydrochloriC
acid. The pancreas pours out diastase
(yeast), the liver bile, consisting of six
chemicals. ALI these mix and produce,
first in the stomach, chyme; in the intes
tine, chyle. Let any one CT these fail in
quantity or quality, or be in excess, and
the whole process is disturbed. All food
consists, of course, of chemical substances,
which become changed when reduced to
their elements. Once the bioplasts have
become sick they would not be tempted by
proper food perhaps. l do not think they
are to be reached in that way"
Can you suggest any way in which they
may be reachedF
"Well, perhaps. We know that certain
simple substances contain in themselves
most of the elements that go to make the
body; these are iron, phosphorus, sulphur
albumen and protajon. If these could bt
introduced into the blood without disturb
ance from the chemicals of the stomach
they might do. Now, this is not my owl
idea, but L am very much prepoSseSsed IL
its favor. A Doctor Dujardin of Paris ha,
been trying this plan for some years, ant
has made so far some remarkable sue
cesses. He has formulated these sub
stances and gives them in syrup while tn,
stomach is empty, and so they pass int
the blood by absorption and not by diges
ton. They are the proper food for bio
plasts, and they seem to.take to it. Ihav'
read many of the cases in which this Lif,
Essence of Dujardin has been used, anC
am giving it trial and hope to succeed
am very sanguine. 1t is the first tim,
that have felt satisfied with the chemico
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of consumption. Should it answer TIN
expectations it will prove the creates
blessing the world has ever received"
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