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to dysentery 8 months, latterly accompanied by one continual diarrhea, and ft 

 acted on him like a charm. In 2 days his diarrhea was gone, in 3 weeks he be- 

 came a hale, fat man, and now nothing that may hereafter occur will ever shake 

 his faith in hot milk. 



II. For Typhoid Fever.— Another writer also communicates to the Med- 

 ical Times and Gazette a statement of the value of milk in 26 cases of typhoid 

 fever, in every one of which its great value was apparent, checking diarrhea, 

 nourishing and cooling the body. 



III. For Debilitating Diseases. — People suffering from disease require 

 food quite as much as those in health, and much more so in certain diseases, 

 where there is rapid waste of the system. Frequently all ordinary food, in 

 some diseases, is rejected by the stomach, and even loathed by the patient; but 

 nature, even in all disease, is bencficient, and has furnished a food that is bene- 

 ficial — in some, directly curative. Such a food is milk. The writer, Dr. Alex- 

 ander Yale, after giving particular observations upon the points above men- 

 tioned, viz.: Its action in checking diarrhea, its nourishing properties and its 

 action in cooling the body says: " We believe that milk nourishes in fever, pro- 

 motes sleep, wards off delirium, soothes the intestines, and in fine is the sine 

 qua non (an indispensable — just the thing) in typhoid fever." 



IV. For Scarlet Fever. — The writer goes on to say he has lately tested the 

 value of milk in scarlet fever, and learns that it is now recommended by the 

 medical faculty in all cases of this often very distressing disease of children. 

 He says: 



Give all the milk the patient will take, even during the period of greatest 

 fever; it keeps up the strength of the patient, acts well upon the stomach, and 

 is in every way a blessed thing in this sickness. Parents, remember it, and do 

 not fear to give it if your dear ones are afflicted with this disease. 



2. Milk as a Medicine.— Under the head of "Milk as a Medicine," 

 the American Journal of Medicine, of St. Louis, says that this article, once 

 looked upon with distrust, has now become a valuable agent in treatment of 

 disease, and is, on all hands, recommended by practitioners of medicine as 

 being a safe and reliable article in the list of curables. Given warm it ia 

 declared to be almost a specific (positive cure) in diarrhea, stomach-ache, incipi- 

 ent cholera and dysentery. It is also pronounced invaluable in typhoid 

 fever. 



II. The Journal then quotes the sentence of Dr. Yale, given in III above, 

 and closes by saying that he also agrees with the opinion of Dr. Benjamin 

 Clark, in the London Milk Journal, given in I. 



Remarks.— I understand that the milk is not to be boiled, that it is to be 

 heated only to allow its being drank without scalding the mouth or throat. 

 There can be no doubt of its eflScacy with such an amount of testimony from 

 the medical profession in India, England and America. See also "Treatment 

 of Scarlet Fever with Sulphur," wherein I have recommended the milk to be 

 also used. 



3. Milk Diet, with Lime Water— For Infants and Adults 

 who have Weak Digestive Powers.— Dr. H. N. Chapman says that 



