Koumiss : its mode of preparation and its remedial value / by William Pepper.

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[1878]
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    u KOUMISS; ITS MODE OP PREPARATION AND ITS REMEDIAL VALUE. j3y yVlLLIAM J^eppEr, m d., Professor of Clinical Medicine in the University of Pennsylvania. Reprinted from the Medical and Surgical Reporter, June 1st, 1878. Despite the marked advances made of late years in our knowledge of the alimentation proper for different kinds of disease, we are constantly meeting with special conditions in which it is very difficult to find any form of food that will agree with the patient. The introduction of the exclusive milk diet, now so well established, has put into our hands a most valuable mode of treatment in a number of obstinate and intractable affections. Not only in gastralgia and some other forms of dyspepsia, and in chronic diarrhoea, but in or- ganic disease of the kidneys, in certain types of cardiac disease, and in some nervous affections, does the administration of milk, according to a definite method, prove an invaluable mode of treatment. In cases of malnutrition or of wasting disease, where it is desired to give r^rt c