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.

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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    The second extension is the addition of baked potato, bread and butter, bread and milk. The cereals include rice, hominy, cream of wheat, oat meal, pettijohn (the latter two to be strained), yellow corn meal. No malted food, no dextrinized food is allowed. No adjusted, prepared, or commercialized food is ever given. Every predigested, iieed-no-cooking, ready-to-eat food is not only pernicious with the rheumatic disposition, but most harmful during the growth period. Commercialization damages by impairing building ma- terial. At every period of childhood, every commercial- ized food, every proprietary food is deficient in constitu- ents for making brain, muscle, bone-building materials. The third extension of diet is green vegetables. All vegetables are allowed except beets and sweet potato— excluded owing to contained sugar. Tomatoes must be eaten raw—never stewed—and with salt only. Many eat raw tomatoes with vinegar and sugar and charge the rheumatic incidence to tomatoes rather than to a pam- pered and vicious palate. The sour taste of tomatoes is due to citric acid—a valuable antirheumatic. Fruits are added next, and must be eaten as they come from nature. Cooking decomposes the organic union be- tween the vegetable acids and the salts; taken raw, oxida- tion yields alkaline carbonates—fruits must always be eaten raw—not even apple sauce or baked apple is allowed. Grapes must not be eaten, as they contain from 10 to 30 per cent, of sugar. Grape fruit is interdicted. Lemon juice ranks high as an antirheumatic. One ounce of lemon juice contains 45 grains of citric acid. Under oxidation it is converted into corresponding carbonates to render blood and tissue fluids alkaline. All fruits must l^e eaten as they come from the vine or tree—never with sugar, cream, or milk. When animal food is added to round out the diet, it must l:)e in the form of meat, not beef juice or broths. The contained extractives are injurious. Red meat is not objectional^le. White meat is equiva- lent in extractives to red meat, and the l^an on red meat is wholly unfounded. Beef and saddle of mutton may be taken with as much impunity as breast of chicken. Fried eggplant, stuffed green peppers, lobster, chicken or other salads, with mayonnaise; custards, ice cream and