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Tuberculosis, or pulmonary consumption (1890)
Tuberculosis or pulmonary consumption - 1890 Author:William H. Burt Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: INTRODUCTION. It is estimated that more than one-eighth of the entire mortality of the human family is due to the fatal ravages of tuberculosis. Any treatment... more », therefore, that will lessen this great mortality, will be accepted by man, as not only a blessing, but a great boon to those suffering with this fatal malady. Eight months "ago, while reading about the wonderful cure of obesity in Prince Bismarck, by taking away all liquids and the carbo-hydrates, and putting him upon a nitrogenous diet, this flashed through my mind: If the taking away of water and the carbohydrates from an obese person will arrest the obesity, will not the giving of an abundance of water, com- ingled with the carbo-hydrates, cure all wasting diseases, especially that of tuberculosis; at once I resolved to give this hint a clinical test, and the results have surpassed my most sanguine expectations, and I now have the great pleasure to announce that the suralimentation of liquid food is not only the greatest of all known prophylactics, but that it will actually arrest and cure tuberculosis, or pulmonary consumption. When used in the first and second stages of phthisis, it will enable the physician to cure more than fifty per cent. of the patients that would have to die, with the best methods known to medical science up to the present date. In the third, or last stage, it will give only temporary relief. All persons suffering from wasting diseases, and particularly that of tuberculosis, require considerable more food than people in health, on account of the greater bodily waste going on in the system. The digestive powers of the system in those suffering with phthisis have no relation to the appetite; when liquid food is introduced into the digestive canal, an immense quantity will be digested and as...« less