The natural cure of consumption, constipation, Bright's disease, neuralgia, rheumatism, colds (fevers) etc. : how sickness originates, and how to prevent it a health manual for the people / by C.E. Page.

Charles Edward Page

Date:: [1883], ©1883

Credit: The natural cure of consumption, constipation, Bright's disease, neuralgia, rheumatism, colds (fevers) etc. : how sickness originates, and how to prevent it a health manual for the people / by C.E. Page. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$soaked not overmuch, but until tender), one may- make a meal sufficiently delicious, and at the same time absolutely pure—if the milk is derived from a healthy creature. And here I would remark, that al- though cow's milk is a strictly natural food for the calf only, still, if the cow be properly fed (not driven,* as is the custom in dairies) and the milk properly cared for—kept free from air vitiated by the emanations of decaying vegetables, meats, or other source of impurity, but open\ in a pure atmosphere— few need abstain altogether from this most delicious food. Nevertheless, no one may feel at liberty to drink ri\\]k copiously, as water: calves, babies, etc., whose natural food it is, take it slowly and chew it thoroughly! We may well take a hint from this. (See Biliousness.) In making the change from cooked to uncooked food, the unassisted novice will experience more or less inconvenience, usually; and this will arise from one of three causes; perhaps two or even all three causes will combine to create the uneasi- ness (and indigestion,, even, sometimes) experienced : * A phrase used to describe the process of feeding excessively to produce an abnormal flow of milk. Under this practice the cows soon become tuber- culous ( consumptive); and it is said that they become useless after three or four years, on an average : they are driven to death, unless disposed of just prior to their decline. Nursing mothers often suffer from this disease, while the infant fattens and becomes sick from overfeeding. t Kept in a close vessel, milk soon becomes foul; and after being thus enclosed requires considerable stirring to aerate it, when it agcun acquires its normal flavor. Cistern water treated to an occasional deep stirring will remain sweet; and when the water in a cistern has become devitalized foi want of air simply, it can be reclaimed readily in the above manner.$