The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-01-08
POPULAR MEDICINE
BY DR.. HIRSHBERG
Intelligent Observation of Rules
of Hygiene Will De-
crease Illness.
BY DIR. LEONARD X. HIRsHBERG,

BY DIR. LEONARD X. HIRsHBERG.
Sugar is a heart tonic and muscle
builder. When it is eaten. It is dis
patched by the stomach into the
reservoirs of the lining fabrie. In
the form Of sweets in foods, sugar
finds its way from the stomach as
fermented or simplified sugar. This.
in turn, is called glucose or dextrose,
which flows into the ''duodenum" or
upper loop of the Intestine. This form
form OF, soluble sugar comes in con-
tact with a few drops of fluid from
the pancreas, the cuc1mber-shaped.
flattened-out organ in back of the
stomach. and is called the pancreatic
juice. In this there may be several
enzymes-ferments- change
complex starches and sugars into the
plain glucose.
This dissolved and invisible sweet
is carried by the blood, lymph and
chyle canals by way OF the Liver
veins into the liver, where a goodly
portion of IL is stored and the rest
OF 1t is carried by a great vein, called
the vena cava. into the right side
OF Ine ncdTl. lneHCc 10 the lungs 10
be purified and cleansed with vital
oxygen and finally distributed via
the left side of the heart. its great
! artery, the aorta and the other
| arteries into all the muscles of the
human frame
Sugar is supposed to give zest to
the taste. Diabetes is claimed by
erring multitudes to be a result OF
the excessive eating of sweets. True,
you might eat enough sweets to
cause the APPEARANCE of them in the
kidney fluids, but the condition would
be only temporary and could not by
any means be called diabetes.
Gaaeing the Various Elements.
Diabetes is a definite affiictior
which occurs when the pancrease is
affected. injured, deformed or is other
wise changed from its normal state.
When certain destructive alterations
of the brain take place, when the
! adrenal glands, which surmount the
kidneys, undergo changes of one sort
or another, and when the liver and
muscles are no longer able to contain
their supply OF sugar, diabetes may
be evidenced. In other words. there
comes about the discovery of sugar in
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the kidneys.
One of the most up-to-date treat
ments for diabetes which has won the
Endorsement of a great many promi-
nent physicians is the treatment
known as the starvation cure"
In carrying out this treatment the
physician must think in grams of car
bohydrates and proteid. II Is not
enough simply to cut down the supply
of starchy foods, but he must know
approximately how much carbohy-
drate and proteid his patient is get
ting each day.
In the Massachusetts, General Hos
pital, where the treatment has been
adopted for general use, the patients
are kept on ordinary diet for the first
forty-eight hours after entering the
hospital, so that the severity of their
cases may be determined. They are
then put to bed and given no food
whatever, except whisky in coffee I'M
til they are sugar free.
RatIons for a Day.
Under this method the system is
very rapidly rid of sugar, all evidence
of II disappearing in two or three
days in most cases. In a very few
required, but this does not seem to in
jure the patient. When the patient is
sugar free he is allowed to eat small
quantities of vegetables. When this
meager diet is commenced the vege-
tables must be boiled in three changes
of water to rid them of as much of the
sugar and starch as possible.
4 glance at the diet of a patient af-
ter the original starvation shows that
! there is little danger of overeating.
Breakfast consists of four table
spoonfuls of string beans and four
tabIespoonfuls of asparagus, with tea
or coffee; dinner OF two tablespoon
fuIs Of carrots and three of spinach,
with tea or coffee. To make up for
the short rations earlier in the day
| the patient is allowed twelve slices Of
cucumber and six pieces of celery at
| supper, with tea or coffee. The diet
| is gradually increased to include cab
bage and onions. and in the third
stage to include bacon and other
| foods,
One of the new features of this
treatment is that the patient Is never
allowed to return to what is generally
considered q normal ~iet. Previous to
! his development of the new treatment
I IT was generally considered by ply
| sicians that patients recovering from
diabetes should take On flesh to help
| build UP resistance against wasting
disease" but now, it is claimed, a
patient should remain under weight
! always, even after recovery from the
disease, to prevent a recurrence of
fits symptoms.
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