The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-04-19

treatment is ever going to be en-
tirely successful. There persists,
however, the idea that food may
have something to do with it. The
old style dermatologists prohibit
their patients from eating candy
and this is probably based on good
experience.
A Canadian physician, DR..
Frank E. Cormia, Of Montreal,
Canada, has found that in about
20 per cent of his patients they
are sensitive to some kind of food.
1t need not necessarily be candy,
sugars, or fats, according to the
old ideas. 1t simply means that
the patients are sensitive to GER
tain kinds of food. When these
foods are withdrawn from the
diet, improvement occurs. He has
had good results in 10 per cent Of
his patients.
The foods most commonly found
to cause exacerbations of the skin
condition, in the order Of frequen-
cy, are chocolate, tomatoes, nuts,
spinach, and wheat.
In testing his patients Doctor
Cormia gives them elimination
diets, or, rather, test diets. The
patient is told to stay on a certain
kind of a diet for several days
and if the skin fares up, it can
be assumed that the foods in this
diet are to certain extent respon-
sible. The diets are as follows:
Diet
Milk, 2 or 8 quarts daily for
two days. This includes butter
milk, cream and seltzer water.
Diet 2
Basic diet, to be continued for
four days: lamb; rice, carrots,
beets; peaches, pears, lemons.
Miscellaneous: olive oil, I'M
stuffed olives, gelatin, maple
syrup, sugar, butter and salt.
Salt must be plain, not iodized.
GRAVES must be thickened with
rice -four. Pure rye bread. Milk,
if patient is not sensitive.
Diet 3
This is a changing diet, to be
substituted for Diet 2. 1t consists
of four groups of foods, each to
be taken for three-day periods.
However, foods listed in Diet .
may be added; also milk, if the
patient is not sensitive.
1. Chicken, eggs; turnips, corn;
apricots, prunes; tea.
2. Beef; cabbage, lettuce, cauli-
flower; grapefruit, apples, pick
les: coffee.
8. Whitefish (fresh-water Ash.
If 'possible) /; potatoes, onions, cell
cry; bananas, pineapple.
4. Pork and bacon (lamb may
be substituted); peas, string
beans; apples, grapes, oranges.
DEF 4
To the basic diet, with additions
II necessary from Diet 5, add sue.
cessively, one at a time, for two
day periods the following foods:
Wheat (if no reaction, add white
bread).
Spinach; nuts; tomatoes; choco-
late.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
A. B. S.:-"You said bicarbo-
nate of soda is not harmful to the
system but is it harmful or de-
structive to the coating Of the
stomach"
Answer-On the contrary, 1t is
soothing and protective to the
coating of the stomach.
G. c.: as there any harm in
drinking a glass of tomato juice
every morning before breakfast?
If there is no harm, what good
does it do? Is the juice of lem
on in half glass Of water, with
half teaspoonful of soda, night
and morning, laxative ?"
Answer-Tomato juice is an ex-
cellent drink in any quantity. 1t
contains Vitamin C and probably
other vitamin factors, and pro-
notes digestion and increases ap-
petite. The combination of lemon
juice and soda is not necessarily
a laxative.
A. B. S.: an a recent article
you stated that afternoon fever
was an important symptom Of tu-
berculosis. Please state approx
mately what temperature you
mean--fraction of a degree, one
degree, or more"
Answer-It is hard to make a
definite rule about this, but l
should say any temperature over
80 would be considered signifi-
cant.
,nally. though it wasn't until atter
SPANS time that they were BTU
ishly colonized.