THE MILK CURE.

Motueka Star, Volume II, Issue 56, 25 February 1902, Page 5

THE MILK CURE.

The Hew Zealand Times says:— “ Lactepathy ” is the scientific name *. f a new cure, which consists of the application of hydropathic principles to the treatment of disease, with the difference that milk, instead of water, is the active medium employed Dr W. Byron Sampson is the apostle of the new mode of ti eatment, and he explains the radical idea of it to be the wellknown power of milk to attract and absorb disease germs. He got wonderful results by the application of milk cloths to bad sores, erysipelas, etc., and by the milk sheet treatment be claims to have cured many cases of smallpox. Moreover, he says the virtues of the milk sheet are not confined to the cases of smallpox. It will absorb all kinds of fever and inflammatory conditions. In scarlet fever, measles, typhus, typhoid, malarial, puerperal, and all blood fevers the effect of this milk treatment is simply wonderful. It lowers the temperature, stops delirium, pr-omotes sleep, and generally puts the patient into a comfortable condition. Rheumatic ailments soon yield to this treatment, and the milk sheet has only to be intelligently useddn most diseases to prove its marvellous efficacy. He claims that in kidney disease, spinal disease and diphtheria he has effected cures by this treatment, and fie adds, in a communication to an English newspaper :—“ I have just sent home cured my fourth case of insanity. The doctor who was consulted said that the man must go the lunatic asylum for at least six nionths. I laughed at it, and asked to he allowed to treat the case. The friends agreeing, I ordered milk sheeting, morning, and evenirtg ; result, cured in a month.” All this seems too wonderful to be true, and there may be au element of exaggeration in the ex-

tracts we have given ; but there seems to be a rational basis for the theory underlying the cures, and no doubt the “ milk pack,” if applied by an experienced hydropathist. will be found, t > yield good l esults in many kinds of illness.

In reference to the above, Mr J. A. N. Salmon, 11, Turnbull street, Wellington,'writes In the “Times” of Friday morning I was pleased to read a. sub-leader on the milk cure, having personally derived much'benefit-timing this month from the treatment. For a long time past I have been suffering fiom a severe illness, caused chiefly by insomnia, and during the last nine months was unable to attend to my duties. On the recommendation of a friend and after my medical adviser had been consulted, I went through a course of treatment under the care of a well-known local hydropathic specialist and masseur. From the beginning I felt the beneficial effects ; after the week’s treatment I enjoyed good sleep; and I have much pleasure in strongly recommending sufferers from insomnia or sleeplessness to give the treatment a fair trial, under the care of an experienced hydropathist.