Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-08-25
CURES TUBERCULOSIS l
New Treatment Said to Have
 Proved It's Efficacy.
VEGETABLE JUICES ITS PRINCIPLE
Tried With Success at New York Postgraduate Hospital In Many Cases Where Disease Had Made
 Great PP0RPeaa


 NEW YORK, Aug. 25.-All the promi- nent physicians in New York received under the seal of professional secrecy an announcement that the New York Postgraduate hospital had in its pos session the secret of a compound of fluids extracted from vegetables which had been proved to be after careful ex- perimentation and study cure for consumption. To Dr. John r. Russell is given credit for the discovery, which, if it shall produce the results for which he hopes. will be step far ahead of Jenner's in vaccination.
 Dr. Russell does not profess that his method is entirely new, nor does the Postgraduate hospital, the faculty of which is utraconservative, proclaim that an absolute cure has been discov- cred for the most extensive scourge which has afflicted the human race. The treatment of tuberculosis, especial ly the pulmonary type, has been a study in the Postgraduate ever since it's establishment, and Dr. Russell has been the principal advocate of nutrition as opposed to medication.
 His idea has been to build up the patient with strength derived from well assimilated foods rather than the employment of medicaments designed to destroy the bacillus of the disease. In carrying out his theory he has dis covered, he believes, that the use of the quintessence of certain vegetables rather than animal products is the proper form of what might be termed extra nutrition.
 In the paper sent to physicians and which practically is indorsed by the Postgraduate hospital, where the won derful successes have been made, Dr. Russell says:
 T am convinced that the vegetable fluid is valuable addition to diet, but feel that six months observation is not sufficient period to justify me in speaking positively of its full value. As an investigator merely it would be more agreeable to wait until the end of the year. but do not feel justified in withholding longer an account of it's use in these experiments. because the results so far are so favorable, the number of persons suffering from pull monary tuberculosis is enormous and the need of relief is pressing"
 hr ;, ,nl, hi J;,,, up" food is prepared is described brief ly by Dr. Russell. He uses potatoes onions, beets, turnips. celery, sweet potatoes, apples, carrots. pineapples parsnips, rhubarb, squash, tomatoes spinach, radishes, string beans and peas with the pods. These vegetables and fruits in the raw state are scrub bed first with brushes in fresh wae,r then mixed chopped and put into a grinding machine.
 1.-The machines are designed to teal and grind the mass rather than to cut it up," says Dr. Russell. "A peanut butter making device is used. The mechanism consists of two metal disks. ribbed and facing each other. One of them revolves. The coarse vegetable matter is fed in at the center and aft. CT traveling the width of the plates es. capes at the circumference. The hand machines are not expensive, can be ad- justed on any table and are easily kept clean"
 Pure air. floods of sunshine and prop CT food are the cardinal principles of the cure, which has been demonstrated in eleven cases in the Postgraduate hos pital, and the greatest of these is the food.