The Milk Cure.

Te Aroha News, Volume III, Issue 138, 23 January 1886, Page 5

The Milk Cure.

Thebe has been merriment in the old halls of England about honest Hodge and the cow. lam almost a Hindoo in my veneration for that animal, whom I regard as the foster-mother of mankind. The doctors are beginning to discover her value, not only for babies but for adulta. But bouse fed cows are only good for thd undertakers' trade, because they are sure to diffuse consumption. The other day I went to Bee an English friend, who had been suffering from a sharp attack of gout. He was taken with it here, on hia way to Cannes, and thought himself too ill ever to recover. There were twinges everywhere. Each essential organ became in turn the seat of the disease, and his spirits were depressed and his brain foggy. An ordinary doctor mildly suggested a lacteal diet, but as the patient hated milk, he refused to accept this regimen. A specialist was then called in He said "meat and wine — not excepting Bordeaux - are in your present state rank poison. You must take no tea, coffee, or any other stimulant for ten days. Your food is to be milk every three hours. If you find it too heavy, mix it with Haute-rive-Vichy. Vary' it, too, by having it mixed with onion or leek soups, or with egfts done a -,la\ creme. I have had patients who ,wero ,half suffocated with gouty matter in their blood,*and others who thought their brains, were softening. This treatment oured them in a short time. Milk is food in its most perfect form, and should ,be regarded as a staple aliment by old and young.'' V , M. Barthelemy-gt. Hilaire, who is as olp as M. Grevy, h&s lived for years chiefly on milk.t He keeps a hornless goat, which gives him nearly three quarts a day. An old woman is hired to take the animal regularly for a walk and to bring it fresh grass. M. St. Hilaire does not wear a great-coat, howeve? inclement 1 the weather. He walks from Pasßy to the Senate and- Institute when he. haa business there and back ; has ridden in a wheeled vehicle since he was Foreign Minister, is free from every infirmity\ofrbldage, l andgetsup every morning at 5 o'clqok to .work at his translation of Aristotle,, of which -he Has yet seven volumes to get through. • ;He tii inks that most of the ills towhich the rich are Bubject come of eating and drinking £00 mubh,Vand, trying to have more than their share of enjoyment,-— " London Trutih." '