Tuberculosis and vinegar : presented to the section on physiology and dietetics at the forty-eighth Annual Meeting of the American Medical Association, held at Philadelphia, Pa., June 1st to 4th, 1897 / by John Ashburton Cutter.

  • Cutter, John Ashburton, 1863-1944.
Date:
1898
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Credit: Tuberculosis and vinegar : presented to the section on physiology and dietetics at the forty-eighth Annual Meeting of the American Medical Association, held at Philadelphia, Pa., June 1st to 4th, 1897 / by John Ashburton Cutter. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    srfy APR 21 1911 TUBERCULOSIS AND VINEGAR. Presented to the Section on Physiology and Dietetics at the Forty-eighth Annual Meeting of the American Medical Association, held at Philadelphia, Pa., June 1st to 4th, 1897. By JOHN ASHBURTON CUTTER, M.D. ALBANY MEDICAL COLLEGE, MEDICAL DEPARTMENT OF UNION UNIV., l886; B.SC,MASSACHUSETTSAGRICULTURAL COLLEGE AND BOSTON UNIVERSITY, l883; CORRESPONDING MFMBER BOSTON GYNECOLOGICAL SOCIETY; MEMBER MEDICAL SOCIETY, BOROUGH OF THE BRONX, NEW YORK CITY. INTRODUCTORY. The enormous amount of work done in bacteriologic lines as to tuberculin has been of such little avail as to treatment and prevention, that I have no hesitation in bringing before the Section, in a few words, a record of work that has been done on other lines and to the glory of medicine, in that this work has cured the desperately sick and prevented the pre-tubercular becoming tuber- cular. Note, April 15, 1898.—This article was published in The Journal of the American Medical Association, Februarys, 1898, in full except references to Victor Hugo and C/ias. Reade, here found on pages 2 and 3; and also published in Scien- tific American Supplement, April 9, 1898, commencing at heading Biological. This reprint contains the original matter as laid before the Section. Space forbids greater amplification. A future effort will be made to demonstrate, and easily, why all hogs do not die of hog cholera and all men of tuberculosis when fed on sour foods. This is legitimate work for the phy- sician, because his labors are constantly to throw the balance between life and death on the right side, and such labor demonstrates to him the wonderful vis mediatrix natura (mediating force of nature), which often conquers under ad- verse circumstances. As it is, thousands die of tuberculosis who would live if rightly fed, and millions of dollars are lost by hog cholera and cattle tuberculosis because, again, wrong feeding.. Verbum sap.