Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1905-09-14
From n. Y. World
NOT A WILDCAT CURE.


From N. Y World.
NOT A WILDCAT CURE
The efficacy of the cure is all the more
astonishing on account Of its simplicity.
The medicine consists simply of a COM
pound OF raw vegetable juices. Heretofore
when the ravages of the disease have been
checked by other means the LESSONS of foe
lungs continue.
This is not the case where ne new
formula is used In almost eve.y instance
the patient increases in VIZ .ght. and his
general health Is restored,
That the vegetable juice theory is nota
wildcat or visionary one has been demon
strated to an entirely disenterested board
Of doctors
If the cures at the annex of the Post
Graduate Hospital continue in the ratio Of
the past few months it is probable that the
fluid will be eventually bottled and dis
.dributed oyer the country with directions
as to its use.
DR.. Russell began his experiments upon
the basis that pulmonary tuberculosis in a
disease of malnutrition and that he could
displace the old theory Of drugs and specific
medicines by substituting proper food, by
giene and exercise.
He began to study the value Of food prop
critics and their effect upon nutrition and
upon the diseased processes. After months
Of close observation he hit upon the vege-
table juice idea, which he proceeded to put
into practice.
He gathered equal parts by weight Of
raw vegetables and, after thorough washing
by scrubbing with brush and rinsing in
fresh water without removing the skins,
mixed them together and chopped them in
a bowl until the particles were small
enough to go easily into the receiver of the
grinding machine, where the mass was re-
dueed to pulp.
He collected the pulp as it fell from the
medicine and squeezed the juice out through
coarse muslin cloth.
DR.. Russell began by using potatoes,
onions, beets, turnips, cabbage and celery.
Later on he added sweet potatoes, apples,
pineappIes, carrots and parsnips. Still
later rhubarb (pie plant), summer squash,
tomatoes, spinach, radishes, string beans
and green peas in the pod.
HAD TO GET MACHINERY.
The results of the administration Of this
juice to tuberculosis patients in the hospi-
tai was so satisfactory, not to say astonish-
ing, that the hand machine was discarded
and power machine installed for grinding
the vegetables, and cider press was used
for extracting the juice from the pulp. A
large quantity Of juice was prepared e.. cry
day and kept on ice.
The entire course of experiments seemed
to demonstrate that the cooking Of vege-
tables destroy all enzymic action on the
conversion of starches to sugar in the
system.
In written explanation Of his valuable
discovey, Dr. Russell says:
It has been demonstrated over and over
again that food, and fresh air which must
be regarded as form of food, are the main
factors in the cure of pulmonary tubercu-
losis.
VEGETABLE FLUID THE ANSWER.
There is no longer difficulty in sup-
plying the proper quantity of proteid,
carbohydrate and fat; but is there not
something additional needed to lift the
blood and tissues to that high estate, per-
feet health, for which Psychologists have not
yet found name?
Experience in the treatment Of large
number of cases of pulmonary tuberculosis
has led to the conclusion that in cases Of
the APPARENTLY durable type who utterly fail
to get well the cause OF failure is lack
Of an unknown something in the diet; and
in case of similar type who get well only
after long, and tedious wait, the neces-
sary something is supplied either in insult
icent quantity or at too long intervals.
For number Of years have been
searching for this unknown something, or
its source Of supply, and vegetable juice is
the final outcome.
IT has been in use at the annex since
January I, and at the dispensary since
Mach I, 1905 From January to June
20 there have eleven cures.
There have been fewer exacerbations