Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-03-07

poisons, exposures and infections; all
catarrhs, chickering's, and fibrous dis
eases of the digestive organs and air
passages, aside from those caused by
injuries, poisons and Infections; asthma
in all its forms, except such as result
from animal and vegetable parasites; all
fatty diseases of the heart and other Or
gans, except such as result frora injuries;
anemia in its various forms; most cases
of prolapsus of the bowels and uterus;
many demented conditions, hypochon-
dria, most cases Of loss of voice, erysipe-
las, eczema, scald head, etc.
All these maladies are caused by the
normal processes of cell feeding, cell di-
gestion, cell assimilation, cell organiza-
ton and cell elimination having become
more or less deranged, the various Or
gans and tissues yielding to pathological
invasion in consequence of being sup
piled with abnormal, imperfect material
for carrying on their normal functions
in physiological manner.
The primary indications of constimp-
tion were readily produced by special
feeding in the human subjects of DR..
Salisbury's experiments, and in great
number of the unfortunate hogs that he
fed with fermented and fermenting food.
The malady was produced and cultivated
to successfully fatal issue. BY the hot
water and meat diet treatment, too, he
has cured it in great number of cases,
as have other physicians following his
methods, with as much certainty and
uniformity as has attended its inten-
tional production.
Especial interest attaches to his food
experiments. The half dozen sturdy
fellows whom he put on diet of baked
beans and coffee exclusively, all
showed symptoms of locomotor ataxy, or
progressive paralysis, on the tenth day
and by the sixteenth day not one of
them could walk straight without sup
port; all had chronic diarrhea, heart
palpitation and oppressed breathing.
Four hearty, well men were put ON
oatmeal porridge-seasoned with butter,
! pepper and salt-with pint of coffee
containing sugar and milk, at each
meal. Constipation, fiatulence, head
ache and dizziness were affecting them
all on the eighth day. In two days more
these conditions had become violent; ex-
ertion produced heart palpitation, and
they were full of wandering pains, with
prickling in feet and hands.
These disorders grew more intense
and painful-with neuralgia induced in
three cases-until from the twenty third
to the twenty-fifth days, when diarrhea
set in, and the record is full of such en-
tries as, "Eyes wild, hearing impaired,
head confused, memory poor, legs and
feet numb, quite deaf and listless, heart
palpitates and very irregular" up to the
thirtieth day, when it was deemed i'm
prudent and unsafe to carry the expert
ments further, and in four days more,
by meat diet and hot water, the men
were restored to normal health. 1t may
be well to observe here that in all cases
men experimental upon were as thor
oughly and quickly cured of their alb
normal conditions by those means.
Violent chronic diarrhea, such as
often prevails in armies and is known
as 'camp diarrhea," was produced in
three hearty, strong men by feeding
them exclusively upon army biscuit in
from nineteen to twenty-one days-a
spell of constipation preceding mi
croscopic examinations proved that they
were literally filled with the yeast germs
already mentioned. Each had marked
symptoms Of locomotor ataxy and partly
lost the use of his lower limbs.
Bread, rice, wheaton grits, hominy,
sago, tapioca and potatoes were each fed
to four or six men at time for periods
of from forty to forty-fve days before
serious diseases and symptoms were pro-
duced. Green peas and string beans
ranked next in point of alimentary quail
tiles. Green corn, turnips, beets and
squash quickly produced unpleasant and
grave arrangements, but of all vegeta-
bles asparagus was found most injurious
when lived upon alone. Seven days is
about as long as it would be safe to sub
sist ON this plant, owing to the effect
upon the kidneys.
Patients have lived exclusively ON
beef and mutton for from three to four
years. Still, if one sticks to them too
long they are liable to become monoto-
nous and may cause "meat dyspepsia"
which is dangerous. People who live
exclusively on vegetable food, as the
Hindoos, are enabled to do 80 by inher-
tied organic tendencies. Their stomachs
are Of little or no use to them. The
pyloric valve being permanently para
lyzed remains open, so that vegetable
matter passes directly into the proper
field of its digestion.
The new treatment restricts the pa
tient to purely animal, and consequent
ly nonfermenting, food-good lean beef
or mutton, with poultry allowed, say,
once a week. No vegetables, bread, ce-
reals, fruits, pastry or sweets are per-
mitted. From pint to pint and half
of water as hot as it can be drank must
be taken two hours after and one and
half hours before each meal and one
hour before retiring. A good time table
for the hot water is n. m, II a. m,
p. m. and 9p. m, meals supposedly being
at 8, and 8, and bedtime 10 p. M, half
an hour being allowed for slowly sip
ping the water each time.
j. ii. Connolly.