Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-08-03
"DR. MULDooN. -

ence, that there is in it lesson and some
compensation, some good TO atone in |
part for its i'll. What DR.. Stallard lin the |
Occidental Medical Tlmes) advances in favor
of Sullivan is the service he has been to |
science under the skillful management of |
his trainer, who is humorously styled CDR. |
Muldoon." OF course there is no serious
ness In the excuse offered, since there are |
other and better methods of demonstrating |
physical capacity under training than prize |
fighting.
But it is true, as DR.. Stallard asserts,
that Sulliyan's case is full of suggestion |
to physicians and their patients We may
assume the chief of these to be the more |
liberal use of natural means for rebuilding |
decaying systems and less resort to pill |
bags. Probably there is nothing new in |
this to the rejecting physician, but the
difficulty is that his patients will not fol- |
low the Muldoonic method of treatment |
even if prescribed for them. The sensible |
physician knows this, and therefore rarely |
advises it.
Nevertheless, the notoriety of the case
of Sullivan may bring a very great many
sufferers to accept the advice, if now tend |
cred, since the family doctor can point |
triumphantly to the success OF his new
colleague, DR.. Muldoon 1t is reported, |
indeed, that this new candidate for quasi |
medical honors under the champion |
ship of DR.. Stallard, who has had the
courage to give him the title, though I'M
able to confer the degree is overwhelmed |
with applications from men OF means who !
offer him enormous fees to train Off of |
them their surplus flesh, and out of them |
their dyspepsia, and host of kindred and |
intimately related ailments
If there is one thing more forcibly pre- |
sented by Dr.. Stallards paper than any other
albeit between the lines-it is this, that
if we had more of the gymnasium and |
less physic, there would be fewer patients !
and lighter fees for the doctors. But, |
fortunately for mankind, the true physi- |
clan is the true philanthropist also. The |
ethics Of his profession require him-and |
they spring from the high sense of honor
that animates the medical fraternity-to |
prevent disease as well as to heal to |
point out how the physician may be
avoided as we'll as to advise his employ |
IN III
human suffering
May 1t not come to pass, then, that we
shall have physicians with their gymna-
SUM and training resorts, as well as with !
their hospitals and homes of relief? Ger. |
tainly DR.. Stallard's paper looks in that
direction. His statement is, substantially, |
this: Sullivan was and is good-natured, |
self-indulgent brute, endowed with a good |
constitution, but addicted to gross habits, |
given to drink and to neglect of ordinary |
precautions against degeneracy of the |
stomach-a creature of the senses rather |
than Of the reason. He was physically |
wrecking himself he had no intellectual |
ity of account to maintain his nervous en-
doWment; his flesh was fabby, his limbs |
weak, his stomach refusing even lightest |
food without artificial digestive aids. He
actually looked as if he could not live |
three months longer. q At this juncture |
"Dr. Muldoon, who had experience, sense
and reason, even If he had no diploma /
and knew nothing Of lecture course or
of materia medica, took this wreck of a |
man in hand
After few weeks OF really scientific treat
ment, and without the aid of drugs, his stomach |
was restored, so that three chickens half loaf |
OF bread, besides VINE and other things were /
taken at & meal. The household butchers bills /
amounted n $40 q week. His muscles became |
as ard as iron; every morsel of surperfuous /
fat was made to disappear. The fonce of his |
blow equalled half a ton; q spin of dozen |
miles was regarded as q gentle exercise: his yo- |
iitional nervous power was apparently mex
without the possibility OF question, the very
paragon of strength, activity and endurance, |
the realization Of perfect physical health.
Now, exclaims DR.. Stallard, who is a
scientist, in admiration for DR.. huldoon, /
who is only wrestler, this result is worthy |
of study from professional point of view.
From this on let DR.. Stailard, whom by
acceptance Of his paper our medical con-
temporary of this city approves, speak for
himself, and let all whom it concerns give
heed TO his words
How many patients come 20 all of us with
weak stonachs poor appetites, fabby muscles,
weak nerves and broken down constitutions |
Not few of these were bonn of healthy parents,
reared on wholesome food, and yet, like Sulli- !
van, have not conformed to the conditions of
personal hygiene They want the care of Dr. |
hulooon 70 restore them. Let ii be conceded
that alcohol was the cause of Sullivan's bsd
condition at the beginning of the yesr, yet his
condition ~ St. Louis affords irrefragable proof
THAI the effects were not permanent; there had
been no disease produced from which recovery |
was impossible. Alcohol certainly is not the
sure and deadly poison the total ahstainers wish
encourage many a drunkard to pursue similar
plan of cure. Sullivan had his bottle of wine or
porter every day, and q bottle of ehampegue at |
his meals, before the fight In this form and
quantity alcohol is no more poisonous than
bread.
As regards food, the athlete under training sd
heres 10 a restricted dietary. He does not drink
milk like baby, for he does not want TO make
baby muscle or baby nerves; he does not CON
nne himself 10 vegetable diet, because he has
neither the stomach of pig por a COW, whose
province is TO collect the nu.riment from the
mass Of grass and raise it TO the standard Of
mans requirements. In the training of the
athlete fat is rightly regarded SIS the enemy Of
perfect health and perfect action 1t weakens
the nervous system and impairs the action of
the muscles and Of the heart especially: there
fore all fat producing foods are greatly re.
stricted as to quantity, particularly sugar.
starch, fruits, mush, milk and water thou.
sand articles are tahooed which are suitable for
weak stomachs and for making fAbby flesh To
attain the highe st standard of health the ath-
lete confines himself TO three staple articles of
food Meat stands tirst dissolved by the gastric
juices, il is potentially both nerves and muscle.
II requires for its assimilation no expenditure of
force; 1t passes directly into the circulation by
the thoracic duct The necessary hydrocarbons
are taken In the shape Of bread. and never in
excess. The gastro-intestinal tract is filed M
by green vegetables which also maintain the
liver in a normal state.
Here, then, we have the principles of a whole.
some dietary for adults, and the quantity Is de-
teFnined by the power of the stomach to digest
AZ, .nat power Is raised q its highest point by