Autointoxication Or Intestinal Toxemia

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1. Preface To Autointoxication Or Intestinal ToxemiaIn demonstrating the effects of the toxins and ptomains produced by abnormal bacterial development in the intestine, bacteriologists have opened up a new and highly important chapter in the etiology o...
2. Preface To Autointoxication Or Intestinal Toxemia. ContinuedEspecial prominence is given to the milk regimen and the fruit regimen, because these two have been found most efficient. Various other useful and efficient regimens have been worked out and are o...
3. Bacteria - Autointoxication Or Intestinal ToxemiaIn order to understand the significance of the processes which result in intestinal toxemia or autointoxication, and the rationale of the methods by which they may be successfully combated, it is nece...
4. How Bacteria Grow and WorkBacteria usually multiply by simple transverse division, a form of asexual reproduction. Recently, conjugation has been observed in certain species of bacteria. A curious form of reproduction observed...
5. Bacterial Toxins and PigmentsThe nature of diastases is not known, but in their presence most remarkable transformations take place - such for example as are seen in the ordinary processes of digestion. All the digestive changes...
6. The Influence of Food Upon BacteriaThe observations of Bienstock and numerous other bacteriologists have shown that the character of bacteria may be modified to an astonishing degree by a change of food or culture media; that is, a cha...
7. Animal Protein Most Readily Undergoes PutrefactionSeveral years ago Doctor Tissier of the Pasteur Institute conducted a research for the purpose of determining the relative activity of these putrefactive bacteria upon animal and vegetable proteins. I...
8. The Process of DecompositionThe decomposition of organic matter is not a simple process. There are two classes of substances, those which ferment, carbohydrates, and those which decay, proteins. The two classes of bacteria, thos...
9. What Is Useful or Beneficent BacteriaNotwithstanding the prodigiously mischievous effects that are justly attributed to the action of bacteria, it must be admitted that they are essential in the economy of life. It is only through the ac...
10. Bacteria Are EverywhereIt is difficult to find a spot on the earth's surface where bacteria do not abound. They are most abundant in the air of crowded cities, but also are found in the air of mid-ocean. The air of high mou...
11. The Intestinal FloraThe plants which grow in a locality are known as its flora. Bacteriologists have applied the same term to the various species of low vegetable forms known as bacteria that grow in the alimentary canal...
12. How the Intestine Becomes Infected With The Wrong BacteriaBacteria are so constantly present everywhere the wonder is, not that the intestine becomes infected, but that the body is not more quickly and more often overwhelmed by these parasitic enemies of lif...
13. Meat Bacteria And Its Effect On Our BodiesIt will probably be news to some people that all butcher's meat contains bacteria, putrefactive germs in vast numbers. Tissier, of the Pasteur Institute, found that meat taken from the slaughter hous...
14. Are Intestinal Bacteria Essential to Life?The rootlets of plants are surrounded by bacteria that perform a useful office for the plant by fixing the nitrogen of the air and converting it into compounds that the plant can use in the manufactur...
15. The Normal FloraProbably not, under the ordinary conditions of human life. We live under a great handicap that shortens our lives and subjects us to end less miseries and tortures. Nature has, however, to some degree...
16. Why the Stools of Healthy Infants Are Not PutridIn the normal stools of healthy infants, according to Czerny and Steinitz, sugar is either absent, or only present in very small amount (Wegscheider, Uffelmann, Blauberg). It must not, however, be ...
17. Do Bacteria Penetrate the Intestinal Wall and Enter the Blood Current?Do bacteria penetrate the intestine? It is well known that in typhoid fever and other infectious diseases, in which the infective agent enters the body through the alimentary canal, bacteria are found...
18. Is Intestinal Putrefaction a Necessary Evil?That nature intends the human alimentary tract to be free from putrefactive changes is evidenced by the pains she takes to prevent the development of putrefactive changes in the intestine and to prote...
19. How the Body Defends Itself From Unhealthy BacteriaLife is one continual battle between the body cells and the bacteria that swarm upon and within it. The bacteria are constantly endeavoring to work their way into the interior of the tissues from the ...
20. The Mucous Membrane a Living Barrier Against BacteriaSeveral lines of defense are maintained by the body against the micro-organisms that attack it through the intestinal canal and against the poisons which they produce. The colonic mucous membrane vig...
21. Defensive Action of the Blood Against BacteriaIn the blood, bacteria encounter the white blood cells, some forms of which, as first shown by Metchnikoff, have for their function the destruction of bacteria. These cells - the so-called neutrophil...
22. Defensive Action of the Liver Against BacteriaThe liver, as already explained, combats bacteria by destroying and eliminating them. It also destroys to some extent the bacterial poisons that get through the mucous membrane. Certain poisons, - suc...
23. The Ileocecal Valve And Its Defense Against BacteriaNature has provided a remarkable means of defense against the bacteria and bacterial poisons developed in the food residues found in the colon by placing at the junction of the small intestine with th...
24. The Influence Of Toxins Upon Living Cells - Carrels Remarkable ExperimentsCarrel, of the Rockefeller Institute, made a remarkable experiment that clearly demonstrates the influence of toxins upon living cells. Carrel demonstrated that living tissue of various kinds could be...
25. Symposium on Intestinal ToxemiaIn a symposium on the subject of intestinal toxemia, or alimentary toxemia, the term used on that occasion, a discussion that occupied several sessions of the Royal Society of Medicine of Great Brit...
26. What Are Intestinal ToxinsAmino-acids resulting from digestion are non-poisonous, but changes produced in them by putrefactive bacteria produce highly poisonous substances. Lecithin and phosphorated fat found in the yolk of...
27. Pressure Raising Poisons Cause Hardening of the ArteriesIn recent years it has been shown by different workers in our Cambridge Laboratory that any drug that has the power of considerably raising blood-pressure will, when injected into the circulation of ...
28. Intestinal Toxins Cause Bright's DiseaseThese intestinal poisons have been shown by experiment to be capable of producing nephritis when absorbed from the mucous membrane as well as when injected. Harvey has noted typical arteriosclerotic ...
29. Influence of Diet on Intestinal FloraCarrots may be advantageously used in a regimen that has for its purpose the changing of the intestinal flora. Bertrand found that when rabbits were fed on potatoes the urine contained indican, while ...
30. Stasis Causes Toxemia and Gall StonesMantle, Consulting Physician to Halifax Royal Infirmary, agreed with Sir Bertrand Dawson in the belief that colitis, as well as gastritis and catarrh of the duodenum, may be due to infection from the ...
31. Intestinal Poisons and High Blood-PressureSaid Dr. Langdon Brown, Physician to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, The diamines, discovered by Barger and Dale to arise from the decomposition of histidine, another product of protein breakdown, afford...
32. Arteriosclerosis Caused by Intestinal PoisonsDr. E. Mellanby, Lecturer on Physiology, King's College for Women, stated that Metchnikoff, Herter and others have shown that indol and skatol produced by the colon bacillus cause atheroma or degener...
33. Intestinal Toxemia and InsanityDr. J. F. Briscoe, in discussing the subject from the standpoint of the specialist in mental diseases, remarked, Who has not seen a prodigious evacuation of the bowels at the hands of the physician t...
34. The Cause of Arthritis and GoutSaid Dr. H. Douglas Wilson, Diseases of the locomotor system not uncommonly find their origin in chronic intestinal auto-intoxication. It is a more than probable cause in some cases of rheumatoid art...
35. Tetany, Rheumatoid Arthritis and Myxedema Caused by Intestinal ToxemiaSaid Dr. Frederick Langmead, On very good grounds, tetany is thought by many to be produced by toxins generated in the alimentary canal. In rheumatoid arthritis, we have a condition probably in ma...
36. The Colon is Not a Superfluous OrganSaid Prof. Arthur Keith, Hunterian Professor, Royal College of Surgeons of England, the eminent English anatomist, The researches of Sherrington, Hill, Mackenzie, Elliott and many others show us how ...
37. Toxemia is Due to High Protein DietDr. Murray Leslie, Senior Physician to the Prince of Wales's Hospital, said, I was particularly interested in Mr. Rowell's reference to cases of intestinal stasis associated with thyroid enlargement,...
38. Toxemia the Cause of HepatismMr. Mummery, Surgeon to St. Mark's Hospital referred, to intestinal toxemia the symptoms resulting when the function of the liver fails - hepatism, - as also the symptoms of uremia which occur when th...
39. Protective Function of the Ileocecal SphincterDr. A. F. Hertz, Physician of Nervous Diseases to Guy's Hospital, gave as the classical symptoms of intestinal toxemia, extreme emaciation, extensive pigmentation, evil-smelling sweat, and cold extre...
40. The Symptoms of Intestinal ToxemiaArbuthnot Lane, the eminent surgeon of Guy's Hospital, attributes to intestinal toxemia inflammation of the bile ducts and of the gall-bladder, gall-stones, inflammation of the pancreas, duodenal spas...
41. Skin Diseases Due to Intestinal ToxemiaDr. H. G. Adamson, Physician in Charge of Skin Department to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, stated, There are many skin eruptions - psoriasis, lichen, planus, pemphigus, scleroderma, pityriasis rosea, a...
42. Intestinal Origin of Certain Eye DiseasesMr. Ernest Clarke stated : Although not generally recognized, the eye, as a matter of fact, is an organ that registers in a very delicate manner certain conditions of the system, and amongst these co...
43. Old Eyes Made Young by Change of Intestinal FloraHere are three cases which have come under the writer's observation and which fully confirm the above observations by Prof. Clarke: A young woman of eighteen years found her sight failing. Examinatio...
44. The Effects of Intestinal PoisonsChanges in the arteries of the brain have been produced in monkeys to which small doses of paracresol have been administered daily during several months. Experiments conducted by Metchnikoff and his ...
45. Why does the Intestinal Flora Require Changing?Tissier observed in the study of the stools of infants that as soon as the weaning of the child began a sudden change in the flora occurred. The same was true when the infant was placed upon the bottl...
46. The Most Common Putrefactive Colon BacteriaThe three putrefactive bacteria that are chiefly responsible for putrefaction in the human intestine are the B. putrificus, B. sporogenes, and B. perfringens, the Bacillus of Welch. These bacteria ar...
47. Endo-toxins In The ColonIt is doubtless true, as pointed out by Distaso and others, that the chief sources of toxins from which the body suffers are not the toxins that are set free during the life of the micro-organisms, bu...
48. Changing and Reforming the Intestinal FloraWhen Poehl, of St. Petersburg, more than thirty years ago, announced that the putrid stools of infants suffering from diarrhea could be made quickly to disappear by a buttermilk diet, the profession w...
49. 1. The Low Protein Diet - Changing and Reforming the Intestinal FloraIt is a matter of common observation that carbohydrates (starches and sugars) ferment, while proteins putrefy. Although both changes are due to bacterial action, there is a most important difference b...
50. 2. Increased Intestinal Activity - Changing and Reforming the Intestinal FloraThe multiplication of bacteria in the intestine is more actively encouraged by stasis or stagnation of the intestinal contents than by any other factor aside from an excessive amount of protein in the...
51. 3. The Displacement of Harmful, Putrefactive Bacteria by Harmless Acid-Forming Organisms - Changing and Reforming the Intestinal FloraAccording to Burnet, the idea of supplanting putrefactive bacteria present in intestinal toxemia by beneficent acid-formers originated with Quincke. To combat the intestinal putrefaction, it is nece...
52. Other Anti-Toxic Ferments - Changing and Reforming the Intestinal FloraThe B. Bulgaricus is not the only protective ferment known to bacteriologists. All the lactic acid-producing ferments, of which there are many, may be regarded as more or less protective in character....
53. Preliminary Examination and Preparation of the PatientIt is highly important that the patient before beginning a special regimen should be subjected to a thoroughgoing physical examination, a careful study also being made of his metabolism. Without such ...
54. Examination of the StoolsA thorough examination of the stool should be made especially with reference to the dominant bacterial flora and the amount of ammonia present. When a young infant is ill and a physician is called, t...
55. Mass Of The StoolThe amount of solids contained in the stools is very small on a diet of animal food - eggs and milk or meat - amounting to only half an ounce to an ounce (Spence). One-third of this consists, accordin...
56. Form Of The StoolIn some persons the fecal residues are greatly reduced in amount. This condition some authorities refer to as greedy colon and attribute to too good digestion. This explanation can hardly be accepte...
57. Color Of The StoolThe color of the stool naturally varies more or less with the food. An exclusive milk diet produces yellow stools, a diet consisting largely of meat produces black stools. With a mixed diet the stools...
58. Odor Of The StoolThe normal stool has a slight fecal or faintly acid odor. Fermenting stools have a sour odor. Stools that contain a large amount of fermenting fat have a rancid odor. The dark-colored stools of meat e...
59. Reaction Of The Stool To Litmus PaperThe reaction of a stool is determined by dropping upon its moist surface bits of red and blue litmus paper. If the blue paper is turned red the stool is acid. If the red paper turns blue it is alkalin...
60. Abnormal Contents of the StoolsIn diseased conditions the stools present numerous abnormal contents, the most common of which is mucus. The presence of mucus in either large or small amount is an evidence of a diseased condition of...
61. Periodical Examination Of The StoolPersons who have been subject to constipation, headaches, so-called bilious attacks, or colitis, and who undertake to combat these conditions by adopting an antitoxic dietary, either with or without...
62. The Intestinal Test DietThe quantities mentioned below are sufficient for a man six feet in height weighing 180 to 200 pounds. When the test meal is used for smaller persons the amount of the several articles mentioned shoul...
63. The X-Ray Test MealBefore the discovery of the x-ray little was known of the way in which the intestine performs its work in health and disease. Within the last few years x-ray experts have thrown great light upon this ...
64. Simple Test for Intestinal Motility or ActivityThis test is highly important for the reason that normal frequency of bowel movement is not satisfactory evidence of normal bowel action. The colon may be twenty-four hours or even several days in arr...
65. The Milk RegimenThe milk cure in one form or another has been practiced from the earliest times. It was known to the early Greeks and was recommended by Hippocrates several centuries before the Christian era. Hippocr...
66. Discovery of the Value of the Bulgarian Bacillus by Doctor TissierThe idea of using the B. Bulgaricus for changing the intestinal flora originated with Tissier. Poehl, of St. Petersburg, many years before, discovered that a diet of sour milk was the most efficient ...
67. How To Use The Milk RegimenTo achieve the best results it is a good plan to place the patient under preliminary treatment for a few days before beginning the milk regimen. During this period, the length of which may vary from ...
68. Milk Does Not PutrefyMilk ferments but does not putrefy. This fact has been established by Hirschler, Rovighi, Schmitz, Eisenstadt, and many other observers. The fact that milk also arrests or diminishes intestinal putre...
69. The Use of the EnemaIn cases in which mechanical obstacles to bowel action exist, such as incompetency of the ileocecal valve, or adhesions of the pelvic colon, constipation may continue in spite of the largest quantitie...
70. Rest With The Milk RegimenIf the patient is emaciated so that a gain in flesh is one of the objects of treatment, complete rest should be maintained during the first week; not necessarily in bed, but on a cot, or in a wheel ch...
71. Feeding Schedule On The Milk RegimenMilk is given at twenty-four feedings and fruit at two (10 a. m. and 4 p. m.), with lettuce and celery when the additional bulk is well tolerated. Bran and paraffin are taken four times a day. In most...
72. How the Milk Regimen Differs from the Milk DietThere are several important particulars in which the milk regimen differs from the milk diet, or ordinary milk feeding, and these points are so important that we shall give brief attention to each...
73. Practical Suggestions When On The Milk RegimenRest During the First Week When a gain in flesh is one of the chief objects desired to be attained by the use of the milk regimen, the patient should take very little or no exercise during the first ...
74. Back Support During Rest in Bed - Practical Suggestions When On The Milk RegimenCare should be taken to see that while the patient lies in bed the trunk is properly supported by a firm cushion placed at the small of the back. When this precaution is neglected patients who lie lon...
75. Raw Milk Must Be Used - Practical Suggestions When On The Milk RegimenSterilized or pasteurized milk should not be used, for the reason that such milk is lacking in qualities that are essential to nutrition. Heat destroys the subtle vitamines that are essential to good ...
76. Holstein Milk Preferable - Practical Suggestions When On The Milk RegimenIt is well-known that there is a marked difference in the quality of milk furnished by different breeds of cattle. Cattle of the Holstein breed furnish a milk containing a moderate amount of fat, whil...
77. Incompatibility of Milk and Meat - Practical Suggestions When On The Milk RegimenMiscellaneous foodstuffs, particularly meat and eggs, must be carefully avoided, not only on account of the excess of protein which their use involves, but, in the case of meat, on account of the stim...
78. The Quantity of Milk to be TakenThe amount of milk taken in twenty-four hours must vary somewhat in accordance with individual capacity and needs. In general, a small person has a smaller digestive capacity than a large person. A go...
79. Care of the Mouth - Practical Suggestions When On The Milk RegimenThe mouth should be cleansed by rinsing well with water after each feeding. It is well also to rinse the mouth several times a day with cinnamon water. This may be easily prepared. Put into a pint bot...
80. Exercise and Baths - Practical Suggestions When On The Milk RegimenFeeble patients who can not exercise should have automatic exercise after the first week. Those who are able to do so should walk a definite distance daily - the first day twenty rods, the next forty ...
81. The Results Of The Milk RegimenThe tongue becomes clean, breath sweet, the stools are no longer offensive, and usually have a yellow color and little odor or a slightly sour odor. This change is generally observed within a week or ...
82. Methods of Overcoming Special Difficulties Using The Milk RegimenSome people experience more or less difficulty in taking milk, especially at first. Many such persons generally object when the milk regimen is proposed, saying, I cannot take milk. I have avoided mi...
83. Dislike for Milk - Methods of Overcoming Special Difficulties Using The Milk RegimenOne of the great difficulties encountered in employing the milk regimen is the dislike many persons have for milk. With some persons the repugnance for milk is so great that considerable effort is nec...
84. Nausea and Vomiting - Methods of Overcoming Special Difficulties Using The Milk RegimenThe most serious difficulty encountered in milk feeding is the occurrence of nausea or vomiting. This is usually the result of taking the milk too rapidly, or taking too small a quantity. It may seem ...
85. Pain - Methods of Overcoming Special Difficulties Using The Milk RegimenInstead of nausea, or with it, the patient sometimes experiences pain and great discomfort from an excess of gastric acid and violent efforts on the part of the stomach to force the tough masses of ca...
86. The Milk Must Be Taken Slowly - Methods of Overcoming Special Difficulties Using The Milk RegimenTaking the milk too rapidly is a frequent cause of gastric disturbance. It is of the highest importance that the milk should be taken slowly as directed. It may be slowly sipped with a strong suction ...
87. The Proper Temperature Of Milk - Methods of Overcoming Special Difficulties Using The Milk RegimenIn some cases it is found necessary to take the milk warm instead of cold, or at a temperature near that of the body, say 102 to 105 degrees. When taken at this temperature, the stomach seems to relax...
88. The Use Of Skimmed Milk And Buttermilk - Methods of Overcoming Special Difficulties Using The Milk RegimenSkimmed Milk In certain cases in which the stomach is sensitive to fats it is found advantageous to give skimmed instead of full milk or milk from which a part of the cream has been removed. Similar ...
89. When Milk Causes Gas - Methods of Overcoming Special Difficulties Using The Milk RegimenPatients sometimes complain of inability to take milk because of the formation of quantities of gas that distend the bowels and produce discomfort. The cause of this is stasis. The intestinal contents...
90. Coated Tongue - Methods of Overcoming Special Difficulties Using The Milk RegimenIn certain cases the tongue becomes thickly coated a few days after the beginning of the milk regimen. The appearance of the tongue may be white, brown or yellow. The surface is usually moist. The br...
91. Diarrhea - Methods of Overcoming Special Difficulties Using The Milk RegimenDiarrhea is generally caused by stasis or retention of fecal matters in some part of the colon, usually the cecum and ascending colon. This is always true when the diarrhea is accompanied by much gas ...
92. Constipation - Methods of Overcoming Special Difficulties Using The Milk RegimenPerhaps the most frequent and the most serious obstacle in the way of milk feeding is constipation. If milk is taken in small quantity, constipation is certain to result. It is only by taking the milk...
93. Temporary Use of the Enema - Methods of Overcoming Special Difficulties Using The Milk RegimenIn cases in which the bismuth meal has shown a much dilated cecum, the patient should take once or twice daily, at least during the first week or two, an enema consisting of two or three pints of wate...
94. Insomnia - Methods of Overcoming Special Difficulties Using The Milk RegimenOne of the difficulties arising from confinement of the patient in bed is insomnia. The patient is sometimes kept awake by gastric or intestinal disturbances, but more frequently wakefulness is due to...
95. Application of the Milk Regimen in the Treatment of Various DisordersFirst of all, it is important to have a correct idea of what is to be accomplished by the milk regimen. There is no panacea for disease. The milk regimen is not a cure-all, but there are certain thing...
96. Unfounded Prejudice Against Carbohydrates And HealthA vast multitude of invalids and semi-invalids have suffered great damage through an undue fear of injury from the use of starchy foods. Many physicians as well as patients have entertained the idea t...
97. A Permanent Change of Habits Required To Improve The Health Of The ColonAn important thing that must never be forgotten is to give the patient such instructions at the conclusion of his course of treatment as will enable him to maintain the improvement which he has secure...
98. The Milk Regimen in HyperhydrochloriaThe milk regimen lends itself most admirably to the relief of gastric hyperacidity. This condition was formerly supposed to be due to abnormal fermentations in the stomach and the development of lacti...
99. The Milk Regimen in Hyperhydrochloria. Continued4. Milk is normally digested in the small intestine rather than in the stomach. Hence, when taken in a proper manner, it is quickly passed out of the stomach into the intestine so that little digestiv...
100. The Milk Regimen in AchyliaWhen the gastric glands have been long over-stimulated and made to produce an excessive amount of hydrochloric acid and pepsin, and especially when gastritis has existed for a long time, the glands un...
101. The Milk Regimen in Gastritis and EnteritisIn acute gastritis and enteritis the stomach and intestine require absolute rest. The water diet, also called absolute diet by the French, is best suited to these conditions. The normal digestive fl...
102. The Milk Regimen in ColitisNearly thirty-five years ago the writer became acquainted with the value of kumyss in the treatment of gastro-intestinal affections. Not liking the idea of administering an alcoholic beverage (kumyss ...
103. Whey Cultures As A Medium For B. Bulgaricus BacteriaThe best culture medium for the B. Bulgaricus is whey prepared by the addition of rennet to skimmed milk. After the whey is separated, it should be sterilized and then inoculated with active cultures ...
104. The Milk Regimen in Gastric and Duodenal UlcerThese conditions are usually associated with gastric hyperacidity and hence are naturally amenable to the same therapeutic measures which yield success in the treatment of hyperhydrochloria. The metho...
105. The Milk Regimen in Anemia and ChlorosisThe milk regimen succeeds admirably in this class of cases as would naturally be expected since this regimen furnishes in abundance exactly the things which are needful in anemia and chlorosis. It is ...
106. The Milk Regimen in Neurasthenia, Hysteria and HypochondriasisA constant association of these disorders, especially neurasthenia and hypochondriasis, with intestinal toxemia, indicates at once the appropriateness of the milk regimen as a therapeutic measure. Th...
107. The Milk Regimen in ObesityThe milk cure has been long employed as one method of reducing weight in obesity. It was used in cases of this sort by Karell and is generally known in Europe as the Karell Cure. More than fifty yea...
108. The Milk Regimen in Cardio-vascular DiseaseArteriosclerosis with failing heart often presents to the physician a therapeutic problem of the greatest perplexity and gravity. The milk regimen affords valuable aid in these cases. A proper combina...
109. The Milk Regimen in Bright's DiseaseBright's disease is no longer regarded as a purely local affection but as a local expression of a general disorder. Although there is much divergence of views as to the nature of the pathogenic proces...
110. The Milk Regimen in Organic Disease of the LiverDujardin-Beaumetz more than thirty years ago called attention to the importance of suppressing intestinal toxins in all forms of hepatic disease, especially in cases of organic disease of the liver. A...
111. The Milk Regimen in DropsyThe employment of milk as an exclusive diet in the treatment of dropsy is a method that at various times has had great vogue but for some years has apparently fallen into neglect, probably because of ...
112. The Milk Regimen in TuberculosisIn tuberculosis, one of the grave conditions that the physician is called upon to combat is the marked tendency to emaciation. This is the natural result of the toxic fever from which the patient suff...
113. The Milk Regimen in Skin DiseasesBloch, of Germany, several years ago called attention to the fact that psoriasis, a very obstinate skin malady, may often be made to disappear by the aid of a diet consisting wholly of fruits and vege...
114. The Milk Regimen in Gout and RheumatismIt would certainly be misleading to recommend the milk regimen as a panacea for gout or rheumatism, but experience has shown that this simple regimen is capable of rendering signal service in dealing ...
115. The Milk Regimen in Exophthalmic GoiterThe clinical findings in cases of exophthalmic goiter point very distinctly toward intestinal toxemia as the probable cause. The continued absorption for a long period of putrefaction products from th...
116. Milk Diet in the Treatment of SyphilisAn English physician, Doctor Westrobe, has recently called attention to the great value of the milk regimen in the treatment of syphilis by salvarsan. Doctor Westrobe has shown that by giving the pati...
117. The Milk Regimen in Chronic CasesOne of the earliest advocates of the milk cure in modern times was Doctor Inozemtseff, of Moscow, who according to Karell, published a work on the milk cure in 1857 and reported the successful use...
118. The Milk Regimen in Surgical CasesWhen time permits, that is, when the necessity for surgical interference is not pressing, the chances for a successful operation may in a serious case often be very greatly increased by reinforcing th...
119. The Fruit Regimen As a Means Of Reliving Toxic ConditionsThe value of fruit as a means of relieving toxic conditions has been known for ages. Before the study of toxemia or autointoxication by Bouchard the conditions that are now known to be due to poisons ...
120. How Fruits DifferFruits do not stimulate the bowel by irritation, but by the bulk that they furnish through the cellulose which they contain and through their acids and sugar. Fruits differ in these properties. Apples...
121. The Daily Fruit RoutineWith the fruit regimen the patient takes four meals a day. Each meal consists of fruit, - any kind of fruit the patient desires to eat, - one ounce of bran and one ounce of paraffin oil. If the patien...
122. The Rationale of the Fruit RegimenThe fruit diet has not heretofore been very successful; first, on account of the great amount of bulk required; second, because the best fruits are to be secured only at certain seasons of the year; t...
123. How the Fruit Regimen Differs from the Fruit Cure, Fruit Diet, EtcThe fruit regimen is a systematized and rationalized use of fruit as a therapeutic measure, whereas the fruit cure, the fruit diet, etc. are empirical and desultory dietetic methods. The grape cur...
124. The Green RegimenIn certain cases of hyperhydrochloria the stomach is exceedingly sensitive to fruit acids, so that the ordinary fruit regimen gives rise to pain even when bicarbonate of soda and small quantities of o...
125. When the Tongue Remains Coated Using The Fruit RegimenIn many cases purées of sweet fruits such as bananas, dates, soaked figs or raisins, and sweet apples, pears or white cherries may be carefully added to the regimen and later acid fruits. In certain ...
126. The "Fruit Regimen" in Disease of the Heart, Blood Vessels and KidneysIn cases of high blood-pressure, whether due to degeneration of the arteries, to renal disease or to fully developed cardio-vascular-renal disease with or without dropsy, the fruit regimen is capable ...
127. The Fruit Regimen in Renal DiseaseVon Noorden is a very warm advocate of fruit in renal disease, as is well known by all who have visited his clinics in Vienna or elsewhere. He says (Von Noorden's Metabolism) : It is the theory of...
128. The Fruit Regimen in DropsyThe fruit regimen is often highly successful in cases of dropsy. In dropsy there is an accumulation in the tissues of fluid charged with salt and urea. Because of the inability of the kidneys to elimi...
129. The Fruit Regimen in ObesityThe fruit regimen is especially adapted to the treatment of obesity. Notwithstanding the fact that a sufficient bulk of food is taken to afford the patient a sense of satiety, or to satisfy the appeti...
130. Intestinal Toxemia, Headache and So-Called "Biliousness"In this condition, which is commonly indicated by a coated tongue, bad breath and dingy or pigmented skin, very foul stools, and the other well-known symptoms of intestinal toxemia, the fruit regimen ...
131. The Fruit Regimen in Cachexias and Chronic DisordersIn most cases of this sort definite indications of intestinal toxemia will be found present. While the fruit regimen will not accomplish all that needs to be done, yet it is a very good means for star...
132. The Fruit Regimen in Surgical CasesWhen the tongue is coated, the fruit regimen reinforced by a liberal supply of malt sugar or milk sugar is a most excellent preparation for an abdominal operation of any sort. The same regimen may be ...
133. The Fruit Regimen as an Introduction to the Milk RegimenThe fruit regimen so greatly facilitates the attainment of the results desired of the milk regimen that it serves a highly useful purpose as an introductory measure. By administering the fruit regimen...
134. The Fasting Regimen - Absolute DietVoluntary fasting probably originated as a religious performance. It was prescribed as penance, or was undertaken for the purpose of encouraging a state of spiritual elevation. In modern times, fasti...
135. The Fasting Body Feeds upon ItselfSo long as life continues, the fasting animal body continues to consume energy although at a reduced rate. The energy output of the body during fasting is three-fifths to three-fourths the ordinary ou...
136. Loss of Weight During FastingA man of average size when at rest and fasting, burns up about 75 grams 2 3/4 oz.) of protein (muscle and gland tissue), 25 grams (5-6 oz.) of glycogen (animal starch stored in the liver and muscles),...
137. The Antitoxic DietAfter the flora has been changed, the patient must adopt and follow consistently a strictly antitoxic diet. Meats of all kinds must be definitely discarded. No exception can be made in favor of white...
138. A Low Protein Diet Safe - Antitoxic DietThat a diet from which animal proteins is wholly excluded is safe and competent is attested by all modern physiologists. Says Prof. D. Spence, in Von Noorden's monumental work on metabolism, The old ...
139. Uncooked Or Raw Foods Beneficial - Antitoxic DietBut another element is necessary for best results. Soon after Metchnikoff called attention to the fact that the colon produces indol, skatol and other highly deleterious substances capable of setting ...
140. Uncooked Or Raw Starch Useful - Antitoxic DietFortunately this can be accomplished in a very simple way; namely, by introducing into the dietary a sufficient amount of uncooked or imperfectly cooked starch. Carbohydrate in the form of glucose or ...
141. A Simple and Excellent Breakfast Food - Antitoxic DietAn excellent breakfast food for the antitoxic ration, which is much to be preferred as an antitoxic food to the breakfast foods in common use is the following: Mix together equal parts by measure of ...
142. Avoid Excess of Fats - Antitoxic DietOne more point to be noted in relation to the antitoxic diet is the avoidance of an excess of animal fats. Animal fats in large amount promote intestinal putrefaction. This fact was pointed out by Com...
143. The Stomach Needs Time for Rest and Disinfection - Antitoxic DietThe interval between meals should be sufficient to afford the stomach an opportunity for rest. The gastric glands exhaust their energy by long continued activity and need rest. But this is not all. Th...
144. A Laxative Diet is Essential to Maintain an Atoxic Condition in the IntestineIn the majority of persons suffering from chronic intestinal toxemia the carmine test meal appears first only at the end of twenty-five hours or longer and will disappear only after the lapse of forty...
145. Three Bowel Movements Needed Daily - Antitoxic DietIncreased frequency and completeness of bowel movement is nearly as essential for the restoration of a normal condition of the intestinal flora as regulation of the diet. The normal intestinal rhythm ...
146. One Daily Bowel Movement Is Constipation - Antitoxic DietThe average American citizen, however, considers himself a model of regularity and physical rectitude if he has one bowel movement daily without the use of drugs or pills. Nevertheless, it is no exagg...
147. How to Combat Constipation - Antitoxic DietIn persons who are fairly normal these changes may be brought about very quickly by regulation of the diet and a voluntary effort to move the bowels after each meal; but in persons who have been chron...
148. Bran and Paraffin - Antitoxic DietIn the great majority of cases of constipation, even very obstinate cases, in which a natural movement of the bowels has not occurred in many years, the difficulty may be quickly overcome by increasin...
149. When Surgery is Needed With ConstipationIn the comparatively small number of cases in which these measures fail the cause is a clearly defined pathological condition, such as incompetency of the ileocecal valve, constriction of the ascendin...
150. Practical Suggestions for Relief of ConstipationIf the bowels do not move three times a day, prompt measures should be taken to make them do so. Without being aware of the fact, all persons whose bowels move only once a day are constipated. Proper...
151. Practical Suggestions for Relief of Constipation. Continued7. Green vegetables (excepting the potato) contain much cellulose. This is especially true of beet root, turnip, parsnip, spinach, cabbage, brussels sprouts, and lettuce. 8. Exercise promotes bowel a...
152. The Importance Of Bathing And Types Of BathsThe Neutral Full Bath The patient should take a daily full bath. The temperature of the bath at the beginning should be 100°. After two minutes the temperature of the bath should be reduced to 92° t...
153. Morning Tonic Bath - The Importance Of BathingEvery morning, soon after waking, the patient should be given a cold wet hand rub or mitten friction. To be efficient the application must be made in a systematic manner. The following description is...
154. The Cold Towel Rub - The Importance Of BathingAfter the first few days, the cold towel rub may be substituted for the mitten friction and later the half sheet rub or the full rubbing sheet may be employed. For full directions concerning the use o...
155. The Rubbing Wet-Sheet - The Importance Of BathingA linen sheet, a Turkish sheet, two towels, a tub containing hot water for the feet, a pail of water at 60° to 70° are needed. The temperature may be higher or lower as indicated. The patient, being ...
156. The Wet-Girdle - The Importance Of BathingAt bed time a moist abdominal bandage should be applied and worn during the night. The method of application is as follows: Wring a towel out of cold water so dry it will not drip. Place around the bo...
157. Exercise And Increasing The Function Of The ColonAfter the first week the patient should begin methodical and carefully graduated muscular exercise. The amount of work done must, of course, depend upon the patient's strength. Persons of average stre...
158. Breathing Exercises And Increasing The Function Of The ColonBreathing exercises, when properly taken, render the greatest service in promoting the movement of the milk from the stomach into the intestine, in encouraging bowel action and in promoting the absorp...
159. Exercises on the Inclined Table - Increasing The Function Of The ColonThe efficiency of breathing movements may be very considerably increased by the use of the inclined table. A table especially constructed for the purpose may be used or an inclined table may be impr...
160. Eating for Health and Efficiency - Increasing The Function Of The ColonErrors in diet are very largely responsible for the majority of the chronic ailments which afflict the civilized portions of the human race. This is particularly true of maladies which affect the alim...
161. The Significance of the Coated Tongue And HealthThe older physicians of the last century gave great attention to the tongue and associated its various appearances with certain disorders of the liver, such as biliousness, and torpidity, and a vari...
162. Metchnikoff's Mistake Underestimating The Role Of The Colon In HealthThe late Professor Metchnikoff, the senior savant of the Pasteur Institute, who startled the world by several notable discoveries, like many another great discoverer, himself failed to profit by the r...
163. Why Milk Sours While Meat PutrefiesThe sugar of milk is a special product exactly adapted to the needs of the body, far superior to cane sugar and free from the unwholesome properties of the products of the sugar cane. It is found nowh...
164. Milk Is Rich in SaltsCow's milk is also rich in salts, containing four times as much of these mineral elements as does mother's milk. Milk is particularly rich in lime. A pint of milk contains 11 to 16 grains of lime, mor...
165. Milk Is Rich in VitaminesAnother notable quality of milk is its richness in vitamines. In this respect also milk is unique and superior to all other foodstuffs. Of ordinary foodstuffs each provides its own sort of vitamines. ...
166. Fresh Milk Is A Live FoodBut there is something more to be said of the food properties of this fascinatingly interesting product of maternal providence. Milk is a live food. Of course it is not alive in just the sense in whic...
167. The Antitoxins of MilkThere still remains a final word to be said about the wonderful properties of fresh cow's milk. Milk is a sort of fluid tissue and like other tissues is prepared from the blood; hence it is not surpri...
168. Injurious Effects of the Sterilizing or Pasteurizing of MilkMilk should be alive, or at least uncooked. Pasteurizing, that is, heating to a temperature of 158 degrees Fahrenheit, destroys the antibodies of milk. When the milk is heated to a temperature of 176 ...
169. Milk Must Be CleanThe chief reason assigned for the pasteurizing or sterilizing of milk is the presence in the milk of large or small quantities of filth which should have been left in the stable or the barnyard. Combe...
170. Infected Milk a Cause of TuberculosisModern research has shown that bovine tuberculosis is communicable to human beings. According to Rosenau, it must be conceded that not less than 5 to 7 per cent, of all cases of human tuberculosis are...
171. How to Eat MilkMilk must be eaten, not swallowed as a beverage. It must be chewed. All foods need to be masticated. The calf and the nursing infant chew the milk which they draw from the maternal font. The movements...
172. Modified MilkWhen employed in artificial feeding of infants and in some cases in the feeding of invalids, cow's milk must be especially modified. Ignorance of this fact and of the proper method of feeding milk is ...
173. A Person May Be Sensitized to MilkAnother point to which attention should be called in the interest of both infants and invalids is the fact that certain persons become sensitized to milk as well as to other forms of protein, and to a...
174. Medical Uses of MilkMilk is not only useful as a nutrient for healthy persons, but by proper management, may be made to play a highly important rôle as a curative agent. For example, there is no better means of inducing ...
175. Milk Ranks High as an Economic FoodTen cents will buy in the form of milk more than twice as much food as in the form of beefsteak, nearly 10 times as much as in the form of oysters, and 3 times as much as is supplied by 10 cents worth...
176. The Special Value of Milk ProteinsIn recent years chemical researches and very remarkable feeding experiments conducted by Mendel and Osborne, McCollum and others have demonstrated that there are great and essential differences in pro...
177. Nuts and Nut MilksPrimitive man no doubt obtained his complete proteins from puts as the higher apes still do, and those who are sensitized to milk or other animal proteins will find in nuts and nut milk a perfectly ...