63 DR. CHASE'S RECIPES. 



milk and lime water is not only food and medicine at an early period of life^, 

 but also later, when, as in the case of infants, the functions of digestioH 

 and assimilation have been seriously impaired. A stomach taxed by gluttony, 

 irritated by improper food, inflamed by alcohol, enfeebled by disease, or other 

 wise unfitted for its duties, as is shown by the various symptoms attendant upoa 

 indigestion, dyspepsia, diarrhea, dysentery and fever, will resume its work, and 

 do it energetically, on an exclusive diet of lime water and milk. A goblet of 

 cow's milk to which 4 table-spoonfuls of lime water has been added, will agree 

 with any person, however objectionable the plain article maybe, will be friendly 

 to the stomach when other food is apprehensive and will be digested when all 

 else fails to afford nourishment. Of this statement I have had positive proof ia 

 very many cases. The blood being thin, the nerves weak, the nutrition poor, 

 the secretions defective, the excretions insufficient, the physician has at hand a 

 remedy as common as the air, and as common, almost as water. In it all the 

 elements of nutrition are so prepared by nature as to boj readily adapted to the 

 infant or the adult stomach, and so freighted with healing virtues as to work a 

 cure where drugs are worse than useless. 



Remarks. — It certainly needs no further remarks to show the estimation 

 that milk is now held in. Let it be used accordingly, with the lime water, and 

 you will also be satisfied. 



4. Milk an Antidote and Preventive to Lead Poison. — The 

 Journal de Medicine states, upon authority, that milk has been found to be an 

 antidote and preventive to lead poisoning by those working in its manufacture. 

 (Why not, then, for painters?) 



A quart a day was furnished to each man, after which no colic nor other 

 harm to health occurred. 



The remedy is simple, easily obtained, and no doubt effectual. Used as a 

 drink during the day would be the manner of taking it. See also its use in 

 "Accidental Poisoning." 



5. Milk as an Aliment or Pood. — So much has been said on the 

 use of milk as a medicine in diseased conditions of the system, it is but proper 

 to say it ought to enter into our daily food to a very much greater extent than 

 it does. It is believed to be good for children; but I beg leave to say it is as 

 good for adults as it is for children ; and if every family would adopt the old 

 plan of corn-meal mush and milk for supper for everyone in the family, as we 

 used to do in an earlier day, the general health of the people would be better 

 than it is. If it produces costiveness, in any case, put in a little lime water, or 

 a little baking soda; but with the mush there is no danger of this. 



6. Milk, Hot, as a Restorative after Fatigue. — A glass of hot 

 milk, when one is fatigued, is so refreshing and strengthening it will astonish 

 the one who takes it. A supper, made with a couple slices of toasted bread In 

 a bowl of hot milk, is very satisfactory in the absence of the mush mentioned 

 above. 



1. SCARLET FEVER— Successful Treatment of.— Dr. BeBi7 

 Pigeon writes to the Loaden Lam,^ as follows: 



