ILLNESS FROM FOODS.
RESEARCH IN ENGLAND. SERUMS BEING PREPARED. Based on the old saying that what is one man’s meat is another’s poison, niqdia'al research is "being direcietd tc a new method of curing asthma, tiirin c;Y«ption.s, sick headache,, and even Epilepsy, by serums prepared from i foods which 'are regarded as the cause |of the ailments. Serums are now being prepared from a number of vegetables. “Almost everyone has an antipathy to ope food or another,” said one cf the investigators. “Strawberries act as a food poison to some ; eggs, shellfish, tomatoes, milk,, and even wheaton bread to others. “The protein substance iff the foot 1 does the mischf.ef, and for some years we have been able to test patients for their sensitiveness to proteins.' “ The offendit ig food being found, L is removed from the diet and usuaiy the disease is short. “The serums now being tested Mill, if successful, ei iabJe sufferers to cat the foods which affect them without harmful “Serums are: given to epileptic patients; rat Hanwell (Middlesex) Mental Ho spital, but it is too early yet to state the results.”
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4602, 17 September 1923, Page 4
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186ILLNESS FROM FOODS. Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4602, 17 September 1923, Page 4
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