Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1882 — Milk for Typhoid Fever. [ARTICLE]

Milk for Typhoid Fever.

Surgeon General Barnes, about three years ago, heard of an allopathic physician in Virginia who, it is alleged, never failed to cure typhoid feVer. As there were many patients in the United States army dying with that disease, Gen. Barnes concluded to visit the ancient Virginia doctor and learn how he treated his typhoid patients. When he met the old gentleman Gen. Barnes inquired: “What is the mode of treatment by which you succeed ? ” “ Why,” replied the venerable physician, “it’s the simplest thing in the world. All you’ve got to do is to get the patient’s stomach in good order and then diet them on buttermilk ; that’s all. I never lose a patient, if he isn’t in a collapsed condition when I get to him.” Surgeon General Barnes tells me that he adopted the buttermilk treatment among the soldiers in the army, and has found it most efficacious. It appears that some ten years ago the medical scientists of France and Russia oompared notes as to the use of plain sweet miik in the treatment of their hospital typhoid patients, and concurred in the decision that milk not only is of wonderful efficacy 4n typhoid cases, but in the treatment of fevers generally. An eminent medical man, a professor in a- New York eclectic medical college Dr. Newton informed your correspondent a few weeks before he died (his death took place about a year ago) that he had found to be substantially true all that is set forth relative to plain sweet milk and buttermilk, and that the latter “acted like a charm in cases of nervous debility. It’s a great blessing—this discovery,” said he.— Baltimore Day .