Food versus bacilli in consumption : (Opus 286) An open letter / from Ephraim Cutter ... to his son, John Ashburton Cutter, with an answer.

  • Cutter, Ephraim, 1854-1926.
Date:
1888
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Credit: Food versus bacilli in consumption : (Opus 286) An open letter / from Ephraim Cutter ... to his son, John Ashburton Cutter, with an answer. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    22 day, four weeks from the time of these hemoptyses, there is no crackling in front, and behind the lung can be heard but a little rasping. This is marvellous, but is true to life. The uterine lesions have steadily improved since I have used the galvanic current from the battery. The plates submerged to one-half their length in the electropoin fluid. Two table¬ spoons were used as electrodes—the zinc electrode against the vulva, the other above pubis. One to one and a half minutes of passage of current. In fact, I find that it is bet¬ ter for me to take an electrode in one hand, and place the other hand above pubis. This current is painless, but re¬ lieves soreness and is reducing engorgement. When I consider that twice has her lung been healed, and is now for the third time going through the same process, I feel the truth of what Dr. Salisbury has said, and what you have written upon, “food is an agent of tremendous power.” If she will stick to the diet, I believe she will get entirely well, as now her surroundings are such that there is every opportunity for her to do nothing but eat, drink and lay down new tissues. I remain, with great respect, your grateful son, John Ashburton Cutter. Lymvood Stock-Farm, Harrod’s Creek, Ky., Oct. 13, 1888. Note.—Case 5 did well for a time after the above answer was written, but malaria was so abundant in her neighbor¬ hood that it was deemed necessary to change her climate, and November 8 I brought her to New York, where she will stay for six months, or until she is in a condition that fully satisfies us. To-day she can walk longer distances than she has been able for -eight months previously to ac¬ complish, and little resembles the very sick woman she was in September.—-J. A. Cutter, The Ariston, &c., Dec. 1,1888. \