MILK CURE, The treatment of disease in the adult by the use of milk as a diet. in the milk cure all other food and drink is suspended for a time. Acting upon the that milk requires about three hours for complete digestion, four ounces of milk are taken by the patient every three hours, beginning on rising in the morning. In a few days, one or two tum blerfuls are taken at a time, in place of the smaller quantity. Usually a patient takes two quarts a day; in some cases the total amount reaches five quarts. It is generally administered warm. In cases of stomachic or intestinal dis orders. the milk is allowed to stand for twenty four hours, and is then skimmed before being administered. Lime water, in the proportion of one-fourth of the hulk, overcomes the patient's repugnance to the diet and renders it more easy of digestion. Or the milk may be flavored with coffee, cocoa, salt, or caramel. After two or three weeks of strict milk diet. it is advked
that a little stale bread be added. three times a day. A week later,. about two tablespoonfuls of rice or a little arrowroot is added. At the fifth week a chop is given once a day, and a few days later Iwo chops a day are allowed. At the end of the sixth week full meals of various foods are resumed, milk continuing to be a principal part of the diet. Coffee. or aloes, or laxative mineral water is employed to overcome the con stipation incident upon a milk diet in adults.
The milk cure is successful in some cases of dyspepsia, gastric ulcer, chronic intestinal indi gestion, enteralgia, chronic diarrhwa and dysen tery. In the treatment of aseites of hepatic origin, it has been used since the days of llip pocrates, who refers to it. It has also proved efficacious in diabetes, eczema, gout, aneurism, and cardiac disease.