Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 September 1917 — Peanuts for Consumptives. [ARTICLE]

Peanuts for Consumptives.

A diet of peanuts is suggested as a cure for consumption by Dr. Brewer in the Journal of Hygiene, This seems too simple to be true, but Doctor Brewer tells of two young women who had grown sick of cod-liver oil and tonics and who were treated by him with salted peanuts —all they could eat —combined with # inhalations of vinegar. “One would think this a very indigestible diet,” he writes, “but they craved them, and it has always been my policy to find out just what my patients desire to eat, and unless it is too unreasonable, I humor them. Both young ladies have become plump, and after one year’s inhalation have ceased coughing, and I pronounced them cured.” Peanuts, are recommended also for sleeplessness.