The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-07-03
HOME HEALTH CLUB
(Edited by Dr. David H. Reeder,
 Chicago, Ill.)

I
 | Pellagra and Worms-In suggest | ing treatment for the numerous cases ] of Pellagra that have applied to the
 Home Health Club. I have found by experience that one of the first essen- | tials of success is to give a thorough course of treatment for worms. | have found that the dietetic treatment failed in some cases and on inquiring more closely into the condition of the sufferer, worms were found to be present in large numbers. The old | method of getting rid of worms was
 to use santonin, but I much prefer
 the use of the cell sAlts The results
 are the same, possibly more certain | and there is no danger whatever in | the use of the cell salts.
 Scientific Investigations have proven
 to the satisfaction of most physicians | that Pellagra is a disease of starva- ton. In many cases where food is supplied in sufficient quantities and of good quality the starvation is brought about by parasites. The alimentary
 tract is thoroughly infested by Micro
 and Macro- ro-organisms which thrive
 and multiply upon the Mucosa and
 food of the sufferer. The following
 from an article by pr. A. L. Mason of
 Maben, Miss, published in the De- | cember number of Clinical Medicine, ally corroborates my own experience. Dr. Mason has the advantage of per-
 sonal contract with many cases while I can see but few. The trenmendous | power of a correct diet in any kind of human suffering is so we'll established, however, and the cell salts are largely looked upon as a food that the Home Health Club method has had no fail- l ures.
 'sWhen we clean the alimentary trace thoroughly. then feeding does
 the work; but without 1t, it does not.
 Why? The answer Is evident.
 Have I tried to cure by pellogra patients by feeding? Yes. Why did
 they break down againT This result ! was not due to the diet, but to .
 worm-infested alimentary tract; when | this was cleared and kept clean and l the patient fed on the same diet as
 before he got we'll, and has remained | we'll since, although he has had the
 same diet as before.
 | I am sending you a photograph of | four of a family of seven. five of whom are well; two of the family died. At the time the photograph was taken in 1911, the male weighed only 86 pounds, while. now (Nov. s, 1915), he weighs 220 pounds. Diet never would have cured him or his
 family for they were so heavily in- | fested with ascares lumbricoides that
 dietetic treatment could be of no
 avail. The old man. to whom I gave l seven grains of santonin said this | brought a gallon of worms; in fact, l he says he will never tell how bad 1t was. He pulled 16 worms from his
 nose and mouth during the summer of 1911, and I was two and one-half or
 three months getting his a1imentary
 canal free. I began treatment with two grains of santonin and increased
 this cautiously to seven grains before
 any visible results were produced. The next day after the large quantity of worms passed he was like bird
 let out of cage. He took only tonics for most of the remainder of that year (1s11) and has taken nothing
 since (and paid me a but little, since
 he is of the pauper class), thus help l ing to prove pr. Goldberger's theory. l Yet, we did not have Dr.. Goldberger's
 dietary list until 1914. s5 Now, will worms take enough food
 in any form and from any source to
 starve the individual? Yes; every
 body will say. Then say so, too. But
 family dietary is not the only cause
 of starvation. Look at the lousy calf.
 wormy hog or colt or horse or child,
 if you please. Do they not look starv-
 led and yet eat ravenously? Clear i zA A ? pens? Do not all atlmentary troubles give a skin manifestation, and are we
 not taught, in treating skin troubles. l to look well to the webbing of the
 ailmentary tract?
 Yes. starvation is the cause of pella- I gra, no matter what the cause of the
 starvation. But, dietary errors are
 not the only causes of starvation, or
 my horse would get fat and my lousy
 pig would look better. I do not mean
 these animals have >pellagra. but I
 mean they look starved, like the man
 in the photograph. and he was
 wormy; but, when the parasites were
 removed he got fat just as do the
 animals when they are cleaned up." This is just on illustration of many cases of pellagra. Suppose your pa | Il6HL udS uOOkWOIIu-ulScd UT dIiS-
 biasis of whatever variety. All in- sane persons in the asylums who have Pyorrhea, when treated with emetine. readily improve mentally. When is not insanity (melancholia) one symp- | tom of pellagra7 Yes, and the worst symptom we have to deal with. Erne- tine has always improved the mental condition in pe1lagra; so also. has Dover's powder, our ideal hypnotic. And why? Because in these cases the 1 ipecac is synergistic to the opium. Now, 16-months' old child was | brought me in July, 1915, displaying
 all the typical symptoms. I gave san- tonfn, which caused expulsion of one
 round worm in two weeks. There was
 no sign of pellagra. Today the child seems perfectly well. gave it an | iron tonic and fed 1t.
 Clean out, clean up, keep clean and feed the pauper."
 Club Notes.
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 Dear Doctor: Baby. 5 months old,
 has had bowel trouble ever since b;r+I,. x,iII mt occ xryikhn,,< haIn