CONSUMPTION TREATMENT.
FRUIT AND VEGETABLE DIET. CHRISTCHURCH DOCTOR’S METHOD. Auckland, January 25. Some remarkable results in the treatment of consumption by a diet of fruit and green vegetables have been obtained by a leading Christchurch medical man (says the Star). As ihe doctor is a member of the British Medical Association lie is unable, by the rules of that body, to allow his name to be published. ' He stated that he had several patients who had been given up by the Cashmere sanatorium, and also given up by other doctors as beyond all aid when they came to him. He ymt them on absolute starvation at first, and afterwards put them wholly on to a fruit and vegetable diet, mostly uncooked. In this way lie had got some wonderful results with patients who were thought to be beyond all hope of relief. Although so far as lie could see, there was no hope of curing these patients entirely, they were getting along and enjoying life, and, for invalids, feeling jolly well indeed.
The doctor added that everything had been done without any drugging whatever, but on a diet of fruit and green vegetables after a fast lasting for about a week. This method of treatment was quite contrary to the accented theory which was to give patients a stuffed diet. Nature sometiintes cured tuberculosis by. depositing calcium or in the tissues. Doctors lime to their patients in an organic form, which was not a hit of good from a. medical point of view. The way to give lime was in the organic form par excellence such as spinach (uncooked) and celery. He prescribed for his T.B. patients as much spinach, celery, lettuce and other uncooked green vegetables as thev could tolerate.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2839, 29 January 1925, Page 4
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291CONSUMPTION TREATMENT. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2839, 29 January 1925, Page 4
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