Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1880 — A Dietetic Cure for Diabetes. [ARTICLE]

A Dietetic Cure for Diabetes.

All starchy food must be wholly avoided. Oysters and clams may be eaten raw or cooked without (lour. All soups in which there is no flour, rice, vermicilli, or any of the prohibited vegetables. Fish of all kinds, and meat of all kinds except liver. Beef and mutton are the best, but tripe, bam, tongue, bacon and sausage's, are safe for those who like them. Poultry and game of all kinds, but no sweet jellies or sauces with them. Salads, including lettuce, cucumbers, water cresses, and cabbage. Celery, asparagus and tomatoes are rather to be avoided. Potatoes, beets, carrots, turnips, parsnips, peas, beans and rice are absolutely prohibited, and must in no case be touched. Cauliflower, spinach, cabbage and string beans are recommended. Sour apples, cut in quarters, dipped in beaten eggs, rolled in cooked gluten, and fried in very hot fat, make a good substitute for potatoes. All kinds of tart fruits, especially peaches and strawberries with cream, but no sugar, may be freely eaten. Milk hi moderation, cream, butter, buttermilk, and all kinds of fresh cheese, especially Neuchatel, are to be eaten. Positively no sweet cake, no bread from ordinary flour, and nothing that contains sugar or starch. The gluten flour from which starch is wholly excluded, may be purchased for twentyfive cents a pound, and from it bread, rolls, pancakes, fritters, mushes and puddings (without sugar or molasses) maybe made and freely eaten. No pastry should be touched unless made from the gluten flour. Nuts are allowed, and in any quantity or shape are highly recommended. Coffee and cocoa with cream (glycerine if liked, but no sugar), may be drank in moderation. Tea is not desirable. No spirits or malt liquors, nor sweet wines; all the sour whies, claret, Burgundy, Rhine wanes, etc., may be taken, and the claret is especially recommended for every dinner. Eat slowly, drink chiefly at the close of the meal, and not much between meals; take cold or tepid baths in the morning, and exercise afterward, and stick to the diet the year round. We know a lady who was suffering from diabetes, wdth an intolerable thirst, night and day, that nothing would alleviate. She had an interview, over a year since, with Mr. C. C. Waite, of the Windsor Hotel, who himself adopted this regiment after consulting the best physician in Europe, and she followed his example. Her disease was at once arrested, her thirst wholly relieved, and she enjoys very comfortable health, which fully pays for the self-denial at the table,—TVew York Courier-Journal.