Etiology of rheumatism, diet in rheumatism, relation of chorea and rheumatism and of tonsillitis and rheumatism / by Joseph E. Winters.

  • Winters, Joseph Edcil, 1848-1922.
Date:
[1907?]
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Credit: Etiology of rheumatism, diet in rheumatism, relation of chorea and rheumatism and of tonsillitis and rheumatism / by Joseph E. Winters. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    are compounds of potassium and sodium. They are taken in with food. Food bases are liberated at the spot where the acids of metabolism are set free. \egetable foods contain three to four times as much basic material as animal food. They supply a chemical antidote for the remaining fourth of the disease as salicylate of soda does for rheumatic fever. They are specific for this remnant; they cure rheumatism; they prevent its recurrence. Rheumatic fever and its remaining fourth are identical; identical chemical compounds from Nature’s lal)oratory are antidotal. For the blood, a base in light chemical union with a vegetable acid; for tissue fluids, bases in stable chemical union as in food. CONTROL OBSERVATIONS. Other Therapy is Inert.—With treatment other than chemical, the behavior is the same as in untreated cases; i.e., ceases spontaneously, graduates insensibly into sub- acute, or leaves a legacy of the chronic. “SPONTANEOUS CURE.” A self-imposed, or, an anorexia-inflicted milk diet her- alds and impels this eventuality. Restricted ingestion, increased oxidation, level proteid-excess. Metabolism at- tains an equilibrium, disease ceases. It is a parallel of a typhoid patient on a milk diet emerging rheumatic-free. Every case of “spontaneous cure” is a dietetic cure. RESORT CURE. Repute is proportionate to rigorousness of diet. At a Spa, where diet is inflexibly maintained, cure accrues. Where the medical constabulary is lax, repute declines, pviblic estimate wanes. Every case of Hot-Springs cure, Mineral-Springs cure is a case of dietetic cure. Acid-products of proteid metabolism cause rheumatism. It is cured by neutralization of acids by bases abundant in certain articles of diet. When bases are deficient, acids satisfy their chemical affinity by union with basic constituents of blood and other tissues. The first of the reserve alkalies to be drawn upon for n