The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1905-09-06
MH egsE FOR CONSUMPTION.
REMEDY FOR THE GREAT
WHITE PLAGUE.
GREAT


PHYSICIANS OF New York Post Gradu-
ate School of Medicine Have
Made Valuable Discovery.
In a circular just sent to all the
prominent physicians Of New York,
under seal of professional secrecy,
says the Brooklyn Eagle, the an
nouncement is made by the New York
Postgraduate Hospital, Manhattan,
of the discovery of a vegetable fluid
which has been accepted as a positive
cure for consumption.
Results covering many months of
exhaustive and costly experiment
show complete cures in every in
stance. Eleven patients who on be-
ginning the treatment were sufferers
from the disease have been discharged
as lit subjects for a life insurance
risk. and fifty others, still under OBJ
servation in the hospital, are on the
high road to recovery.
The discovery is this: That a COM
pound Of raw vegetable juices is the
aDng sought for element Of diet needed
TO cure obstinate cases, where the les
aons in the lungs persisted after the
1ayages OF the disease had been ap-
parently checked and the general
health OF the body restored. as testi-
lied by an increase in weight The
use OF the new compound has over
come this difficulty to the complete
.satisfactien Of a disinterested board
LOT doctors.
It is believed, moreover. that this
may lead to a means by which every
body may be rendered immune from
The deadly tubercle bacilli, just as
saccination safeguards from small
pnx. It is expected that the Post
Graduate Hospital viii advocate that
The fluid eventually be bottled and
placed .on tap at stations through
cut the city and in drug stores and
at soda water fountains.
Vegetable juice has been in use at
The Post t-Graduate Hospitals annex
xor the treatment for consumption,
No. 322 East Nineteenth street, since
January z, Of this year, and at the.
easement Of the hospital building,
Second avenue and Twentieth street,
since March z. Between January Z
and June 20 the records show that
eleven patients were discharged as
rured. after being examined by a
specially selected board Of specialists
none OF whom were interested 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 year
was Is. This was the record Of 1904.
an other words, almost as many cures
have been made in a little more than
i've months under the vegetable juice
treatment as under the old method
were made in a year. This represents
81 leap Of 100 per cent in the proper
zion of successful cases.
~ Most of the fresh vegetables in the
market enter into the composition Of
the fluid. The circular to the profes-
SION thus describes the method Of pre-
paring it:
Equal parts by weight Of raw veg,
stables are scrubbed with brush in,
Fresh water, then mixed and chopped
until the particles are small enough
TO go into the receiver Of grinding
machine, where the mass is reduced
ito a pulp. The pulp is collected and
-4he juice squeezed out through coarse
muslin cloth.
>aThe machines are designed to tear
and grind the mass, ratner tnan 10
cut it up. A peanut-butter making
aevice is used. The mechanism con-
sists of two metal disks, ribbed and
FACING each other. One Of them re-
ve1ves. The coarse vegetable matter
Is fed in at the center and, after trav-
cling the width Of the plates, escapes
t the circumference. The hand ma
/. earines are not expensive, can be ad-
5usted on any table and are easily
4ept clean.
.The vegetables first used were po-
tato, onion, beet, turnip, cabbage and
celery. Later were added sweet poSa-
to, apple, pineapple, carrot, parsnip,
and later still rhubarb (pie plant,
summer squash, tomato, spinach
radishes, string beans and green