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Show MAKING VEGETARIANS OF AMERICANS. When you have the gout, the doctor prescribes a diet free from meat and eggs; when you are bilious, he again orders "no meat; and now as a cure for bronchial asthma, meat is forbidden. forbid-den. It begins to look as though the doctors doc-tors will force every ailing person to be a vegetarian. Here is the his'tory of a man who had bronchial asthma and recovered: E. W. M., a man of 58 years of age, has had asthma since he was 21 years of age. From 1912 to 1914 he had asthma almost constantly. He was given a powerful purge which completely com-pletely emptied his large intestine. Dr. Eustis, his attending physician, put him on a diet of fruit, vegetable soup, sugar, butter and a very little bread and some tea for three days. I He then put him on a diet containing more food elements but one low in histidin. E. W. M. had an abundance abund-ance of indican in his urine. Purging, Purg-ing, the free use of drinking water and the limited diet caused the Indican Indi-can to disappear from his urine in a few days. His asthma rapidly lessened les-sened and in a few days it disappeared. disap-peared. A month later he ate some oysters. He" developed another attack of asthma. He again took a purge and went on the fruit and soup diet and in 24 hours he was free from asthma. During the next two years he has dieted properly and he has been en- tlrely free from asthma. Ho has taken tak-en Bulgarian bacilli. Goldberger has called attention to the fact an anti-asthma diet is a pellagra pel-lagra diet. That tho man steering away from asthma Is liable to run into bellagra. Tho asthmatic who has controlled his symptom by diet is justified in trying out various foods with a view to getting a midway diet which will have him from asthma and which win not pitch him into pellagra. pel-lagra. Eustis suggests that he begin with buttermilk, peas and beans added add-ed to his asthma diot. If these go all right ho might try out gelatin or oven a little meat from which the blood has been noakod bofore boiling. Not ovory case of asthma can bo cured by dieting. In many cases tho cause of the asthma is absorption of mucus and pus from the nose or sinusos near the nose. The cases will not set well without the nose condition is remedied. reme-died. However, even those cases should diet. Bronchitis is now being treated by thickening the blood, on the theory that the heavier stream sufficiently vitalizes the muscles, which when woakencd produce the affliction, as to work a cure. |