Diarrhœa and Typhoid Fever.

Cromwell Argus, Volume IV, Issue 173, 4 March 1873, Page 6

Diarrhœa and Typhoid Fever.

MILK A3 B REMEDIAL AGENT. An interesting article upon this subject lately appeared in the London Medical Journal, in which it is stated, on the authority of Dr Benjamin Clark, that in the East Indies warm milk is U3ed to a great extent as a specific for diarrhoea. A pint every four hours will check the most violent diarrhoea, stomach-ache, incipient cholera, and dysentery. This milk should never be boiled, bat only heated sufficiently to be agreeably warm, but not too hot to drink. Milk which has been boiled is unfit for use. This writer gives several instances to show the value of milk in arresting disease. He says:—" Tt has never failed in curing me in six or twelve hours, and I have also given it to a dying man who had been subject to dysentery eight months, latterly accompanied by, one continual diarrhoea, and it acted on him like a charm. In two days his diarrhoea was gone, in three weeks he was a hale, fat man ; and now nothing that can hereafter occur will ever shake his faith in hot milk. A writer also communicates in the Medical Thn?s and Gazette a statement of the value of milk in twenty-six cases of typhoid fever, in every one of which its great value was apparent. It checks diarrhoea, and nourishes and cools the body. Frequently all ordinary food in certain diseases is rejected by the stomach, and even loathed by the patient, but nature, ever beneficent, has furnished a food that in all diseases is beneficial —in some directly curative. Such food is milk.