The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1905-08-28
Vegetable Juice Now Strong
ly Commended.
N. Y. PHYSICIAN TRIES IT
On Eleven Patients-Completes Treat
ment Previously Adopted--Per-
fects Usual Cure by Use
Of Fats.

New York, Aug. 2s.-Dr. John Il Rus
sell, who has been experimenting on the
cure Of consumption at the New York
Post Graduate Hospital for the past !
seven years, announced yesterday in a
report to the executive committee Of
the hospital the discovery Of an addi-
ton to treatment already used that has
increased the chance Of cure nearly 100 |
per cent This new addition is a com
pound Of the juices Of raw vegetables,
and is believed to be the element Of
diet NEEDED in obstinate cases, where
the lesion in the lungs persisted even
after the rayages Of the disease have
been apparently checked, the general
bodily health restored and the patient
begun to increase in weight.
DIR. Russefs treatment of consump- |
ton is based on the theory that the dis
ease is largely due to malnutrition. |
The consumptiye's body does not readily |
absorb the elements that it needs to |
create normal blood. According to this |
idea, if the blood can be made normal
1 its white corpuscles would take up the |
| fight and successfully combat the tuber- |
Gle bacilli. Acting on the theory, Dr.. |
Russell evolved by experiment a system
of diet BY which the patient absorbed
much more fat than was needed for the
production Of heat or energy and much
more proteid than was needed for the
repair of waste. By this oyerfed meth
cd the doctor secured much success in
curing tuberculosis, or at least in OBJ
tanning apparent" cures, as the eau
! tious scientist prefers to call them.
| Frequently, however, Dr. Russell found
| tinued to exist, although the steady
gain in weight showed the nutritional
| process to be effective He decided
that the presence orabsence Of some UNI
known substance in the diet OF the pa
tient was responsible for the cures, and
4 that If this substance could be found
the certainty Of the cures would be
1 greatly increased. The dispensary
treatment did not allow the doctor to
supervise the patients food, but last
October an annex to the hospital in
East Nineteenth Street was built and
turned over to the doctor In his work.
An elaborate system of experimental
tion was begun, with the result an
Rounced. In the five months of treat
ment with the vegetable juice II pa
tients were discharged as apparently
cured. The record Of cures previously
was ~ for the entire year of 1904.
The addition Of the treatment contains
the Juices Of most of the vegetables
found in the market and can be pre-
pared by the patient at home if neces-
sary Dr. Russells report thus des-
cribes the method of preparing it;
The vegetables first used were potato,
onion, beet, cabbage, turnip and celery.
Later the doctor added sweet potato,
apple, pineapple, carrot, parsnip, and
beans, and green peas with the pods.
The report states that "the juice is
prepared every day at the hospital
and is kept on ice" The dose is two
ounces twice day after meals.
In speaking of his experiments DR..
Russell says in the report: 1T has
been demonstrated that food and fresh
air are the main factors in the cure of
consumption. but most physicians must
feel that much remains to be done to-
ward the perfecting of diet before we
can approach the treatment of all pa
tients with full assurance. The pro-
, blem Of weight gaining has been solved.
There is no longer difficulty in supply
ing the proper quantity Of proteid carbo-
hydrate and fat; but there is not some
thing additional needed to lift the
blood and tissues of that high estate,
perfect health, for which the physiolo-
logists have not as yet found a name
!, For centuries scurvv dominated the
world and its treatment is undoubtedly
the greatest dietetic triumph. Still it
is we'll to remember that after more
than a hundred years physiological
chemistry has failed to answer the ques-
ton: What was the substance in
fresh vegetables and fruit juices by
means of which the magical results
J are wrought2 Experiment in a large
, number of cases OF consumption has
led to the conclusion that in cases OF the
apparently durable type, who fail to
! get we'll, the cause OF the failure is the
, lack Of an unknown something in the
! diet. In cases where the patients res
pond but very slowly this mysterious
, something Is supplied in insufficient
/ quantities Oh at too long intervals. For
, number Of years have been search
, ing for this unknown something or its
source Of supply, and the vegetable
/ Juice Is the final outcome"
/ Although the new compound has been
on trial with uniform success for six
months, Dir. Russell refuses to commit
himself as to the extent Of its curative
powers. II am convinced" he says in
the report, that the vegetable fluid is
| valuable addition to diet, but feel that
six months observation Is not sulfi-
/ cient period to Justify me in speaking
/ positively Of its full value. AS an in.
& yestigator, merely, it would be more
I agreeable TO wait until the end Of the
I year. but do not feel justified in
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