Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1901-07-04
VIRTUES OF THE BEEF CURE.
Sirloin and Porterhouse Now Ordered
Instead of Physic.

London Mail: Ribs of beef have at
last qualified for admission to the some
what exclusive pages of the British
Pharmacopoeia.
Beef has for centuries been accorded
the very heartiest respect Of the Eng
lish people, but only as meat for strong
men. Nowadays it has come to be pre-
scribed in solid pounds ayordupois in
the case of consumptives. and your ply
stefan will tell you to eat it often, and
as much OF it as you possibly can man
age. Then when you have finished go
and eat more.
In the treatment of consumption a
good sirloin has no rival, unless it be
porterhouse steak. The pthisieal pa
tient whose purse will allow him to
browse daily upon porterhouse steaks
need have little fear of knocking un-
der"--if he only takes to his juicy med
icine at an early period
The modern treatment of cons,lmp-
ton is heavy and strenuous feeding,
with as much bed as possible, and, of
modern theory is that the terrible
wasting which consumption entails
must be met by lavish feeding, Nour-
ish the tissues of the body, ply the pa
tient with the best beef and mutton,
rejuvenate, as it were, his impoverished
blood, and you have your bacillus in a
corner.
Ordinary feeding will not do
this, and a course of Frenchifed kick
shaws at popular restaurant would
leave the patient worse than ever Brit
ish beef and muttOn-for Owls Britain
nicus, comes in as good second to Bos
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. can hold up the
miserable little bacillus.
The writer was for some weeks a
patient in a consumption hospital, saw
the gargantuan process in operation,
and went through it himself. Beef in
wedges an inch thick; mutton in huge
slabs. One potato-all the rest meat.
1t rather gave one pause to see the pale
emaciated shadows OF men stolidly eat
ing dinners which a navy might de-
cline to tackle. There We're those who
undertook second helpings, but these
were mostly small boys with determi-
nation to excel.
Very literally we ate to live, and we.
ate with the sense that. II we did not
eat hugely. the dreadful red curtains
which were dnawn around patients
deathbeds might be the scene in oar
case. The writer was daily guilty of
gluttonous excess. but the thought of
his wife and children nerved him to
the crime. Parental love dictated the
nasty orgie, but the writer felt that if
a coroner,s jury did bring in verdict
of Died from overlooking the world
would recognize the purity of his mo-
tive. The beef treatment has enabled
the doctors to take up arms actively
now against the dread disease. They
still hover round a patient with their
solemn faces and their prying stetho-
scopes, and take their fees.
Cod liver oil has gone by the board
except in very special eases-and the
treatment of phthisis is comprised in
the above prescription There is moth
ing very learned or scientific about it
and really it would seem as il an intel
ligent man might have thought it out
for himself. 1t does not pretend to
cure phthisis-the awful complaint still
laughs at the faculty and sweeps its
thousands into the grave every year.
But if the sufferer be not too weak and
the disease not too far advanced the
above prescription will enable him to
live on for years in comparative
strength and comfort. All Harley street
cannot offG more just yet.