Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-21
CURED BY DIETING.
Newest. Remedy for Consumption Is
Certain and Costs Little.

From the New York American.
Consumption is being cured right here In
New York. and by simple dispensary care
too.
Five verified cases We're discharged yes
terday as entirely cured from the Post Grad
uate and Medical School and Hospital where
all the treatment was given The institu-
ton authorities made official announcement
of the results.
A remarkable feature of the cures is that
medicine played very small part In work
ing them, scientific dieting having been the
principal method followed
Another noteworthy fact is that the pa.
tients--a tailor, a barber, clerk, a sales
woman and an Il guard-coutinued their
work during the treatment. which lasted
from two years, in the case of the tailor,
to two months. in the instance Of the guard
All the cures We're absolute. according to
Drs. Bickerton and Barstow. authorities on
pulmonary tuberculosis Because of these
mems special fitness and the fact that they
were not connected with the hospital, they
We're appointed committee to examine the
patients when they We're admitted and
again when the attending doctors pro-
nounced the patients we'll
The first examination was to establish
beyond doubt that the applicants had
consumption, while the final one was to
make sure that they had recovered. out
side experts were asked to make these ex-
aminations lest the physicians who treated
the cases might let enthusiasm overmas-
ter fact.
Before the cures were announced Drs
Bickerton and Barstow. well Prof.
II. T. Brooks. bacteriologist of the Post
Graduate. made certain that the patients
showed no signs of the disease in their
chests and no tuberce baciIi in their sys-
| tens, these evidences of the existence of
consumption having been present when the
patients We're accepted for treatment
Credit for the results is given to DR. J.
F. Russell. who, with the support of the
POSTGRADUATE authorities, undertook. in
March, ls!'s, to demonstrate by series of
experiments that cases of uncomplicated
pulmonary tuberculosis could he success
| fully COPIED with by dispensary attention
without ohligng the consumptives to leave
| this climate or abandon their work. Since
| that time forty-fiVe cases including the
ones announced yesterday. have been passed
as cured by the committee.
The treatment is grounded on the fact
that consumption is a result of mal-nutri-
ton, and that in a healthy body the con-
sumption germs have no chance of exist
ence 1t aims to build up the body by Il
scientific diet faster than the disease can
break it down In this diet varying
! though it does with the circumstances of in
dividual cases, eggs, milk, cheese and fats
are prominent-the fats being designed to
| supply the necessary heat and energy. thus
saving the proteids in the other substances
for use in building up tissue.
In order to make sure that the patients
consume the proper quantity of food they
are Hldut ~ report at the PoSt-tIraGIsttg
| Dispensary, at 10th street and "a avenue
twice a day and drink there a cupful of an
emulsion of fats. The hours at the dis
pensary are arranged for the convenience
of working people. and the class" as IL is
called, ASSEMBLIES early in the morning and
after work in the evening.
Every Sunday morning the patients are
weighed. the gain in pounds being both an
index OF their progress toward recovery
and evidence of their faithfulness in carry
ing out the prescribed rules.
For the treatment of the relapses which
are a feature of consumption, the Post
| Graduate has established annex in 10Th
| street with eight beds. Here it is possible
| to watch the effects of the treatment far
! more accurately than when the patients are
living in their own homes.
| Ultimately it is hoped that a specific diet
| will be formulated which will contain the
greatest possible nouriShment to the pa
| tient with the least Inconvenience to him.
and experiments to this end are constantly
| in progress in the dispensary annex labord-
tory.
Those in charge of the work believe that
in the seven years which have passed since
the first cases We're accepted fer treatment
it has been successfully proved that com
parative poverty is no bar to recovery
from consumption. if only the money TO
buy the required food can be obtained
and that the disease can be cured in the
climate of New York as well as in the
Adirondacks or Colorado. The Post -Gradu-
ate people say that while this thesis first
laid down in 1913, has been successfully
demonstrated, much remains to be done in
perfecting the treatment and in shortening
the time of the cures.