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Show XIXE UEAXS A SAT. i New Tork Evening World. The first anual report on the work of the New Tork Tuberculosis .. infirmary Is Important as showing the great reliance re-liance now placed onyfood to cure consumption. con-sumption. Once drugs were all in the treatment of this most dreadful of diseases and the mortality progressed with increased strides. Then pure air was the essential essen-tial thing and patients who could afford af-ford It went to California, to the dry alkali atmosphere of Arizona, to the icy mountain valleys Of Switzerland. Now the enlightened practitioner keeps the patient comfortably at home amid the home surroundings, makes the most he can of the local air. even though it may lack qualities desirable for the best results, and feeds the patient to the top of his assimilative capacity-stuffs capacity-stuffs him on the Strasburg goose prin- clple and welcomes a congested liver at the gain of strength and vitality and flesh. It is the course of wisdom. It is also, al-so, incidentally, an Interesting incident in the modern medical progress which effects more in' the way of cures without with-out drugs than the physicians of our grandfathers effected with them. At the tuberculosis infirmary patients are required to take nourishment nine times a day. as follows: At 6, a breakfast of cereals, bread and butter, coffee and beefsteak or poached eggs. At 8, cod liver oil with whisky or sherry. At 10, egg nog. At 12, dinner consisting of soup, beef or mutton, potatoes, another vegetable and bread. At 2. cod liver oil and plenty of sherry. At 3, beef tea. At 4, egg nog. At 5, supper, of pudding, a soft-boiled egg, bread and butter, tea. At t. hot or cold milk. Then to bed for nine hours' sleep. And at all times during the day cheerfulness cheer-fulness and hope a mental atmosphere mdre than compensating for any lack of tonic qualities in the air. Is not this common sense, enlightened enlight-ened therapeutics? Not a drug op the entire dietary. . And the process in the healing of the patient is this: First, a slow decrease in the loss of weight, then a standstill. Then a pound, then additions of flesh that are visible, the plumped-out cheeks, the alerter mind, the more active ac-tive movement. Also, there Is an excellent pointer in this dietary for the person who is growing grow-ing weak and ailing. Notice how much reliance is put on eggs and milk! In moments of exhaustion why not take a raw egg with snerry or an egg nog or an unsweetened milk punch? It may check a tendency to consumption, and the physical benefit derived will excuse any apprehended deterioration of the moral character. |