The relation of alimentation and disease / by J.H. Salisbury.

  • James H. Salisbury
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1892
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    sure of all my data, I tended, fed and dissected them myself ; it was not Avork that could be done with kid gloves on ! These experiments also are fully given in subsequent pages. Later on I employed men from time to time to Hve with me on other kinds of food, one kind at a time: some of the results of such living are duly given under theii' proper headings. By 1858 I began to understand from what Cause all our diseases emanate, except- ing those arising from injuries, poisons and infections, and to hope that the day was not far distant when I should be able to cure them. While prosecuting my studies upon feeding on one food at a time, I was taking every opportunity to get at the true Causes of infectious diseases. I began the study of smallpox germs in 1850, and worked at it fifteen years before I allowed myself to say or publish anything upon the subject.^ In 1862 I worked up the measles germ and its source.- In 1862-63 I devoted much time to the causes of intermittent and remittent fevers and tracing them to their source.^' During this period I also gave considerable attention to the study and discovery of the germ which produces diphtheria, asthma, and so on.* Having satisfied myself as to the Causation of Disease, my next step*'was to complete a therapeutic system which should meet the facts in the case and attain the end in view, — that of combating a pathological groundwork by removing its cause, and thus effecting a radical cure. The publication of this work in its entirety has been delayed over twenty years, in order that sufficient cures of so-called incurable maladies might place both discovery and method of treatment beyond all reasonable doubt. Hundreds of cures now attest to their utility, not alone in my own practice, but also in that of other physicians of high repute, both here and in England. See work on Blood and Vegetations in Sinallpox and Typhoid Fever, 1868. See Armrican Journal Med. Science for July and October, 1862. See Revue Scientifirjue, Paris, 1869, and American Journal Med. Sconce for 1866. * Gaillard's Med. Journal, New York, 1882.
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