A Treatise on koumiss; or, milk champagneSpaulding & Barto, 1877 - 12 pages |
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acid in diminishing action of Koumiss agreeable alcohol stimulates alcoholic fermentation anemia attention of physicians becomes more fluid beneficial beverage blood buttermilk carbonic acid Casein chloro-anemia chlorosis chronic bronchitis chronic gastritis City consumptive diseases cough improves cures debilitating diseases diabetes diarrhoea digested diminishes and becomes direct and rapid disease gradually ceases dose dyspepsia Eastern Russia effects of Koumiss emaciation embonpoint eminent masters employed expectoration diminishes fatty faucet glass hospitals of Paris hygienic conditions increase of weight influence of Koumiss intestinal catarrh kilograms known in France Koumiss complexion Lactate lactic acid Lancet LANE MEDICAL LIBRARY layer leading physicians medicine migratory tribes MILK CHAMPAGNE mucous secretion naturally united neurosthenic nutritive principles open air organic tissues phthisis pulmonalis qualities of Koumiss reconstituant remedy SAN FRANCISCO Schnepp serum sicians sleep Soda stomach strength being restored sugar syrups taken Tartars Thera Therapeutique tion transformation of milk Treatise treatment of Koumiss tribes of Eastern whey
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Page 2 - (account of a method of making a wine called by the Tartars Koumiss, with observations on its use in medicine;)
Page 8 - the waste that debilitating diseases, whatever be their nature, bring with them. It re-establishes strength, and assimilating functions, as digestion, respiration, and, being rapidly absorbed by the organism, on account of the constitutive and nutritive nature of its elements, it influences the increase of weight with an extraordinary rapidity. In chlorosis, anemia, chloro-anemia, the application of
Page 3 - of the city of Samara (1863), made the reconstituting properties of this agent conspicuous, attributing to it a specific power on the diseases of the respiratory organs. Dr. Chomenkoff attributed to it the same quality, with a conviction deeper yet, having had occasion to experiment on himself, in a chronic disease of the lungs, of which he was happy enough
Page 2 - being well studied and its therapeutic value being well established, on true and certain data, the limits of its application became more extended, and to-day it is indicated as the most powerful reconstituant in all debilitating diseases. The first scientific description of
Page 5 - is based on the same chemical laws as the transformation of grapes into wine, and of apples into cider, by alcoholic fermentation. Besides its Latin denomination, vinum lactis, indicates very well its nature; and it is while considering its source
Page 4 - of which the good results have been recorded in the numerous accounts published in all the medical papers, and which has become an agent in French therapeutics, under the auspices of our most eminent masters.
Page 6 - We find in it alcohol, lactic acid, carbonic acid; the most important salts of the organism, as the phosphates of lime, soda, iron, etc., naturally united, and which, thanks to the state of fermentation of
Page 3 - it some truly astonishing cures. I remember having seen two cases of phthisis pulmonalis in that last degree when hardly a few weeks of existence are granted to the patients. Well, after treatment with
Page 9 - as a fermented drink, is perhaps the only therapeutic agent of which the action is as direct and rapid, on account of the constitutive elements of its lactic origin. Shortly after the ingestion of
Page 7 - competent to judge the real value of a new therapeutic agent and to appreciate its importance. To resume all that is said in scientific works and in medical journals, the good effects of