The Morris County chronicle., 1905-08-29
CURE FOR
CONSUMPTION
Eleven Complete Recoveries and
No Failures as yet at Post
Graduate Institution.
VEGETABLE JUICES EMPLOYED


In a circular just sent to all the
prominent physicians of New York.
under seal of professional secrecy, the
announcement is made by the New
York Graduate Hospital, Man
haitian, of the discovery Of a vegetable
fluid which has been accepted as pos
itive cure for consumption.
Results covering many months OF
exhaustive and costly experiment show
complete cures in every instance.
Eleven patients who, on beginning the
treatment, were sufferers from the dis
ease, have been discharged as fit sub
lects for a life insurance risk. and fifty
fothers still under observation in the
hospital are on the high road to recov-
cry.
The discovery is this: That a conn
pound Of raw vegetable juices is the
dong sought for element Of diet needed
to cure obstinate cases, where the le-
sions in the lungs persisted after the
ravages Of the diseases had been. apDar-
emily checked and the general health
of the body restored as testified by an
increase in weight, The use Of the
new compound has, overcome this diff
Guilty to the complete satisfaction of a
disinterested board of doctors
1t is believed, moreover, that this
may lead to a means by which every
body may be rendered immune from
the deadly tubercle ibacilli, just as vac
cination safeguards from smallpox. 1t
is expected that the POSTGRADUATE
Hospital will advocate that the fluid
eventually be bottled and placed ION.
tap" at stations throughout the city
and in drug stores and soda water
fountains.
Vegetable juice has been in use at
the Post-G Graduate Hospitals annex
for the treatment for consumption,
No. 322 East Nineteenth street, since
January 7,of this year, and at the base
ment of the hospital building, Second
avenue and Twentieth street, since
March I. Between January and June
20. ..l1e- records show eleven patients
were discharged as cured, after being
examined by specially selected board
of specialists, none of whom was inter
ested in the experiments.
That this splendid achievement was
mainly due to the administration Of
the new fluid is demonstrated by the
fact that the greatest number of cures
ever effected by the hospital in a year
was 13. This was the record Of 1904.
In other words, almost as many cures
have been made in a little more than
five months under the vegetable juice
treatment as under the old method
were made in year. This represents
leap of 100 per cent. in the proper
ton of successful cases.
Most of the fresh vegetables in tire
market enter into the composition of
the fluid. The circular to the profess
sion thus describes the method of pre-
pairing it:
g EQUAL parts by weight Of raw yege-
tables are scrubbed with a brush in
fresh water, then mixed and chopped
until the particles are small enough to
go into the receiver Of grinding ma
enine, where the mass is reduced to a
pulp. The pulp Is collected and the
juices squeezed out through coarse
muslin cloth.
THE machines are designed to tear
and grind the mass, rather than to.cut
it up. 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, after travelling the
width of the plates, escapes at the cir-
cumference. The hand machines are
not expensive, can be adjusted on any
table and are easily kept clean.
" The vegetables first used we're po-
tato, onion, beet, turnip, cabbage and
celery. Later were added sweet pOta-
to, apple, pineapple, carrot, parSnip,
and later still rhubarb tpjeplant), to-
mato, summer SQUASH spinach, rad
ishes. string beans and green peas with
the pods.
This juice is prepared every day at
the hospital and is kept on ice. Each
patient receives two ounces twice a
day after meals.
The report which the hospital au-
thorities are circulating among the
physicians is one submitted to the ex-
ecutive committee by Or. John Il. Rus
sell, who has had charge of the tuber-
culosis class in the dispensary since it's
inception in 1898, and to whom all the
credit is given for the pioneer work
done by the institution In combating
the great white plague among the poor
of New York The vegetable COM
pound is DR.. Russell's discovery Not
withstanding the substantial nature
of the tests to which it has been put,
he will commit himself only to the
most modest claims for his discovery.