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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    tlhe experience of Dr. J. H. Salisbury and myself for the past 21 years be realized by all regular physicians in these United States, at least 13,000 lives would be annually saved by the detection and treatment of the pretubercular state .alone.” Let this make item number one. This motto is backed by an unpublished volume entitled, “A New Physi¬ cal Sign of the Pretubercular Stage of Consumption. By E. Cutter, M. D. Esse quam videre. Illustrated by sixty-nine ■original microphotographs taken with objectives ranging from the l-4th to the l-75th inch, 1S77, pp. 211.” Item 2. In 1858, one thousand swine were fed by Dr. Salis¬ bury on sour swill for three months; one-quarter of them ■died, and 104 were autopsied and found to be consumptive. (See A No. 1 Bibliog.) Item 3. By the side of these, about one thousand other swine were kept on sound sweet corn for the same time; none died. Had consumption been contagious they should have caught it. Item 4. Consumption has been cured, is being cured, and will be cured by proper feeding on the plans laid down in u The Delation of Alimentation and Disease,” by J. H. Salis¬ bury, M. D , LL. D. New York: (J. LI. Vail & Co. 1888). You remember your brother Ben’s case, how, in 1876, he was in the pretubercular state, how I kept him from going to Germany for his musical education for one year till he was cured, how he went, afterwards got sick again, and was said by his German physician to be in consumption, how I wrote him to live as he did before, how your mother being sick almost to death (see Diet in Cancer, Case IN Albany Medical Annals, July and August, 1887) and worrying about him, I had him come home to have his blood examined, to see how it really was; how that he got well and remains so now. You know Mr. Luther Whiting Mason, sick in the same way in 1877, how he was cured, went to Japan and introduced Western Music in the public schools, backed by the Cabinet of the Imperial Government. This great re¬ sult is due to his cure. Besides these cases, you know of more in my practice of a worse character. Add to these the hundreds that Dr. Salisbury has cured. There is evidence