Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1891-03-11
WHAT FOOD CAN DO FOR THE
VERY SICK.

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Shirley Dare told tle readers of the
Herald last Sunday many wonderful
things that food would 10 for the very
sick. She says:
1t is the experience of physicians
that children of tuberculous parents
properly fed, with no fermentation OF
their food, do not die of tuberculosis,
but 1--we to grow up IN decent health.
DIR. Cutter says--''The bacteriologist
is terribly at task to find how the ba-
cillus gets into the lungs, and even
Koch can throw no light on the ques-
ton"
The student of the blood has no
trouble at all. he holds that the spores
are absorbed from the intestlnes by
partially paralyzed organs and trans
mitted to the lungs, and form, by their
chemical and mechanical action, tub
ercle. When the tissues are undergo
ing decay and the cough has come on,
of course the bacteriologis will I'D
the bacillus in what is thrown off. out
! if they study what the cases eat they
| will get more light as to the contagion
of tuberculo -is.
CONSUMPTION CURED.
In 1881 young man lay apparently
dying of consumption; skeleton vast
/ ing by night sweats and cough which
| threw off lung tibres, with frequent
| hemorrhages; cavities in both lungs,
heart enlarged, pulse 12O, respiration
| twenty and more times a mlhute-a
| desrer case, He was fed on beef
| from the top of the round, scraped
from fibre, the pulp daIntily mou ded
with knife and fork, not even the hand
allowed to touch it lest the human heat
should change the condition of the
meat; the beef broiled and seasoned to
taste with pepper, salt, butter and
lemon Juice; even little Worceste
shire sauce allowed. The patient was
fed this three times q day, given gentle
tonics, bathed twice day with ammo
MIA or acid spo nge baths, and carefully
watched, for life was likely to slip
away at any m oment. The cough and
sweats left, the patient arose from his
illness, went through college, mar
ried, and calls himself well man.
WHAT DIET CAN DO.
Old DR.. Gutter claimed years ago
that consumption was durable by prop
er food and treatment. He published
seventy cases in 1880, of which only
seventeen failed of cure. those who
could control their appetite and COM
mand care, got well without going off to
distant States among strangers.
Five years ago a middle aged woman
came under treatment for fibr0 con-
sumption, Bright's disease and fibroid
tumor, for consumption and tumors
are near of kin. She dieted rigidly for
six months, then other foods were
brought in and the disease disappeared.
This is not the first case of fibroid
tumor cured by food; usually galvanism
and food cure together. A little be-
low these accounts L came upon a
singularly good definition of these dis
eases:-''Actions in tissue of produc
tions of the different lamentations IN
food"
| trust Dr. Cutter will not find fault
with this extract of his work, given
here with q double intent-to dissuade
women from vegetarian error, which
has led TO fatal endings, and to let
some of the worst sufferers on earth
know their case is not without help. |
As Dr. Gutter himself says, "The tax
ing away of hope kills many and it is |!
true that of those who die |
yearly, thousands might be saved by |
knowledge and good nursing.
FOOD AND GOOD LOOKS.
Food has almost everything to do |
with woman's good looks. l never saw
a vegetarian yet who was comely in ap-
pearance. At best they look like badly !
cured invalids, gaunt, dull eyed or /
with cutters below the eyes and faded |
compilations. Vegetarians allow and |
largely use the most diff cult foods in !
the world for sedentary people, milk !
and eggs. The yelks of eggs are said /
by one physician to be hard to digest I
and a promoter of rheu ..atlsm. L |
think he can hardly be speaking of !
fresh laid eggs twelve hours from the
nest and lightly cooked. But it is true
that stale eggs, or those heated by car
rying or kept in unwholesome contact
develop poison as deadly as the tyro-
toxicon of impure milk, if. not identi-
cal with it. We must one and all pro-
test against the taxation imported
eggs. The Hamburg eggs at nine
cents q dozen will answer for painters
work and dressing glove skins, which
call for millions of eggs yearly, but
failing the foreign supply must cripple
home resources and take the invalid's
chief nourishment away from his lips.
Doubtless not few of the cases of
women, all which are on the way to
fevers and rheumstisms, would improve
by the strict diet of scraped beef pulp
brOiled, with toasted brown bread,
with little sugar or starchy food.
Errors in food are dangerous in
nursing mothers, who not only damage
their own beauty for life by poor nour-
ishment but fail to supply children
l. i NF
Henry Thompson, the eminent writer
on food, says:-''Most of the diseases
which embitter the middle and latter
part of life are due to avoidable errors
in diet. These errors begin many
times when the child is few hours old
and continue through the earlier years
of life, laying the foundation on which
to build the future person." "To
fully nourish a child" we are told,
''the mother or nurse must furnish
from twelve hundred to fourteen hun
dred pounds of good milk during the
first year of its life, and this must con-
tain from one hundred and twenty-five
to one hundred and forty pounds of
solid matter-more than many women
weigh" says DIR. Cool, who goes on to
state that the nervous system contains
as a constituent phosphorized oil
found in the yolk of egg, IN the human
blood, and in butter and cream espec-
tally.
HOW To USE THE DAIRY.
"Without this phosphorized oil fur
nished by the blood for the use and
growth of the nervous system, it would
cease to grow and with it would de-
cline the energy of all the functions of
the body" Babies and women alike
need this, and it is most attainable in
cream which, diluted, is far easier of
digestion for the youngest child than
cows milk. Many of the worst dys-
peptics find themselves able to digest
pure, sweet butter and diluted cream
as well as soft boiled fresh eggs, an
our nervous, scrawny women want to
secure these articles of food in their