Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-02-01
FOODS FOR BEAUTY.
Shirley Dare Says She Never Saw a
Good Looking Vegetarian.
CONSUMPTION CURED BY MEAT.
Diluted Cream Is Easily Digested and Eggs
Are Necessity.
DISINFECTANTS IN THE PERFUMES
WRITTEN FOR THE D1sPArcH.,

iAS lTOm ucSus Dub fCCCub ldCIS nave
awakened doubtsas to the entire advisability
of living on milk and beans. and she wants
more facts bearing on the subject.
DR.. Asa F. Pattee. Of Boston, told meet
ing of the American Medical Association
that he had the gout for years. and, accept
ing the popular idea that high living caused
it, eschewed beef and ate vegetable food
mainly. He saw reason in time to change
his mind and ate beef freely, with the result
that his swollen, painful joints were de-
creasing in size and gout disappearing.
DR.. John Cutter, of New York, tells of a
woman who had been three summers at one
of the large Western sanitariums so widely
advertised, but received no benefit. The
doctors at the sanitarium told her rheumatic
gout was fend and incurabge; that milk
was perfect food, though in this case it
clogged the liver so as to cause serious
trouble; that beef was unclean and not fit
for food, etc. She went on diet of meat
and a little bread, as vegetables caused
bloating, and in three weeks saw. decided
improvement. A finger that she had not
been able to bend to the palm was able to
touch it without pain.
Scraped Beef Pulp Broiled.
Doubtless not few of the cases of large
waists and bloated figures among women, all
which are on the way to fevers and rheu-
matisms. would improve by the strict diet
of scraped beef pulp broiled. with toasted
brown bread, with little sugar or starchy
food.
1t is the experiment of physicians that
children of tuberculous parents properly
fed, with no fermentation of their food, do
not die of tuberculosis, but live to grow up
in decent health. DR.. Cutter says: "The
bacteriologist is terribly at task to find how
the bacillus gets into the lungs, and even
Koch can throw no light on the question"
The student of the blood has no trouble at
all. He holds that the spores are absorbed
from the intestines by partially paralyzed
organs and transmitted to the lungs, and
form, by their chemical and mechanical
action, tubercle. When the tissues are un-
dergoing decay and the cough has come on,
of course the psychologists will find the
bacillus in what is thrawn off But if they
study what the cases eat they will get more
light as to the contagion of tuberculosis.
A Case of Consumption Cured.
In 1881 young man lay apparently dying
Of consumption; a skeleton, wasting by night
sweats and cough which threw off lung
fibers, with frequent hemorrhages; cavities
in both lungs, heart enlarged, pulse 120,
respiration 20 and more times minute-a
desperate case. He was fed on beef from
the top of the round, scraped from fiber, the
pulp daintily nodded with knife and fork,
not even the hand allowed to touch 1t lest
the human heat should change the condi-
ton of the meat; the beef broiled and
seasoned to taste with pepper. salt, butter
lam mi q Whrnaatnr-
shire allowed.
The patient was fed this three times day,
given gentle tonics, bathed twice day with
or acid sponge baths, and care
fully watched, for life was likely to slip
away at any moment The cough and
Iweats left the patient arose from his ILL
less, went through college, married, and
,alls himself we'll man.
Old DIR. Cutter claimed years ago that
was curable by proper food
md treatment. He published 70 cases in
1880, of which only II failed of cure. Those
Who could control their appetite and COM
nand care got well without going off to dis
ant States among strangers.
Food in Fibrous Consumption.
Five years ago middle-aged woman
anne under treatment for 6brous consump-
ion, Bright's disease and ibroid tumor, for
and tumors are near of kin.
She dieted rigidly for six months, then other
oods were brought in and the disease dis
ppeared.
This is not the first case of fbroid tumor
ured by food; usually galvanism and food
ure together. A little below these accounts
came upon singularly good definition of
hese diseases: factions in tissue of pro-
Iuctions of the different fermentations in
ood."
I trust DR.. Cutter will not find fault with
his extract of his work, given here with
ouble intent-to dissuade women from veg
tartan error, which has led to fatal endings,
nd to let some of the worst sufferers on
arth know their case is not without help.
Is DIR. Cutter himself says, 1.-The taking
way of hope kills many" and it is abso,
utely true that Of those who die YEARLY |
thousands might be saved by knowledge and |
urslng.
Food and Good Looks.
Food has almost everything to do with |
romans good looks. I never saw q vegeta- |
ian vet who was comely in appearance. At |
est they look like badly cured invalids,
aunt, dull-eyed or with cutters below the |
yes and faded compilations. Vegetarians
low and largely use the most difficult foods |
Ine Worlu ior oeucubdIy PSopie, milk anu
ygs. The yelks Of eggs are said by one
hysIcian to be hard to digest and promo
n of rheumatism. I think he can hardly
e speaking of fresh laid eggs IL hours from
ne nest and lightly cooked. But it is true
nat stale eggs or those heated by carrying
r kept in unwholesonle contact develop
olson as deadly as the tyrotoxicon of i'm
ure milk, if not identical with it.
We must one and all protest against the
,xatlon imported eggs. The Hamburg eggs
cents a dozen will answer for painters
ork and dressing glove skins, which call
,r millions of eggs yearly, but failing the
,reign supply must cripple home resources
nd take the invalid's chief nourishment
way from his lips.
AvoidabIe Errors of Mothers.
Errors in food are dangerous in nursing
others, who not only damage their beauty
" life by poor nourishment, but fail to
,pply children with strength of constitu-
on. Sir Henry Thompson, the eminent
ritter on food, says: "Most OF the diseases
hich embitter the middle and latter part
: life are due to avoidable errors in diet
hese errors begin mauy times when the
lid is few hours old and continue
rough the earlier years of lie, laying the
undation on which to build the future
,rson."
'sTo fully nourish a child" we are told,
the mother or nurse must furnish from
200 TO l, 400 pounds of good milk during
e first wear OF its life, and this must con-
in from 125 to lao pounds of solid matter
more than many women weigh" says DIR.