Show consumption made to yield to raw juices new york aug 26 physicians of this city are much interested in a circular issued yesterday by the new york post graduate hospital announcing the discovery of a new cure for consumption this new remedy Is the juice of raw table vegetables potatoes beets carrots conlone celery and the like procured by grinding and squeezing a dose being two ounces after meals the statement Is made that eleven patients with well developed pulmonary tuberculosis have been absolutely cured and are now good subjects for life insurance risks fifty other patients are still treatment and said to be progressing satisfactorily experiments along these lines have been going on at the hospital tor several years and occasionally brief accounts have been published of cures alleged to have been performed tha basis of the work has been that to cure consumption beyond the incipient stage an unknown something must be found in the diot now it Is declared that this unknown nutriment or remedy has been at last discovered in vegetable juice accompany the circular are the names of two new york physicians who it is stated were appointed by the hospital authorities to observe and report on the experiments and they in most sanguine tenna of what has been accomplished and what will doubtless follow as the work progresses gr esses in addition to applying the 1 eatable juice as a cure for the most obstinate case of consumption the hospitals circular announced that it is believed moreover that this may lead to a means by which everybody may i bo rendered immune from the deadly tubercle bacilli just as vaccination safeguards from smallpox it Is stated that the experiments were begun on a small scale with only a few vegetables ground by hand later machinery was introduced and nearly every vegetable used as food employed j |