Koumiss and its use in medicine / by Victor Jagielski.
- Jagielski, Apollinaris Victor.
- Date:
- 1870
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Koumiss and its use in medicine / by Victor Jagielski. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.
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![but the consequence was, that all the'above symptoms disappeared, and his flesh and strength returned ; nor was there any reason to apprehend a relapse at the time I left that country. About the same time, I advised its use to an- other young nobleman, who had laboured under an abcess in the left side, about the region of the twelfth rib. As he had then resided in a remote part of the country, no attention had been paid to it; on the contrary, by im- proper application,the sides of the ulcer were become hard; he had lost his flesh and strength; he had occasional faintings; and there were all the appearances of incipient hectic. By the use of Koumiss for about six weeks, proper chirurgical dressings being at the same time applied, his health was perfectly re-established.” These are three of Dr. Grieve’s more interesting cases, but there were many others, in which he employed it with equal success. From all these facts Dr. Grieve draws his conclusions, (we must not forget in what year [1784] it was written, and the corresponding position of medical science.) I think all my readers will more or less go hand-in-hand with him. I give them in his own words. “ From all these circum- stances,” says Doctor Grieve, “ I think myself entitled to infer that this wine of Mare’s Milk, or Koumiss, may be applied to many of the purposes of medicine. From the mild acid which it contains, may it not be considered as a cooling antiseptic ? From its vinous spirit, may it not become a useful stimulant, cordial and tonic ? And, from its oily and mucilaginous parts, may it not prove a valuable article of nourishment ? If chronic diseases, as is generally allowed, depend on a debility of the solids ; and if they are difficult of cure, because the organs which ought to supply the body with nourishment and strength, do not only them- selves partake of the general weakness, but are too often, by the indigestible nature of the food with which the} are](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22347495_0032.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
