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Over 1,000,000 families in the rural South eat nothing but salt pork, corn meal and molasses. Their members are frequent victims of that painful deficiency disease, pellagra, with its attendant diarrhea, dementia, dermatitis. Physicians have known for nearly 25 years that small amounts of green vegetables and milk will forestall the disease. But still pellagra continues. In its advanced stages it has been considered incurable, since the patients are unable to ingest the necessary kinds of food...
...scarlet fever or hives, and break out on the face, trunk or extremities. Slight poisoning by sulfanilamide causes headache, vomiting, dizziness, breathlessness. A person dying from an overdose of sulfanilamide becomes blue, has pains in abdomen and chest, gasps. His heart beats fast; his hands & feet tingle; he has diarrhea...
...read that "an apple a day keeps the doctor away." She knew that pectin, the substance in fruit which causes them to jell when stewed, somehow cures diarrhea and dysentery in babies. She discovered that pectin kills bacteria in a test tube...
Charles Archibald Tompkins, a child specialist who had used pectin for infantile diarrhea, got permission to apply Miss Haynes's pectin solution to the child's raw flesh. The child recovered in a few weeks, regaining entire use of his foot. Said Miss Haynes last week: "The pectin solution acts not only as a killer of organisms and bacteria, but stimulates the growth of tissue. It also has been successfully used on varicose ulcers...
...cause for the disease. Their best advice was prevention. Modern technique requires that every baby should have individual linens, separate glass-enclosed cubicles in which to lie. Visitors should be kept away from the infants for the first three weeks, the time when they are most vulnerable to virulent diarrhea. Above all, babies should nurse only from the breast when at all possible. The old medical maxim that cow's milk is good for calves and mother's milk is good for babies was strikingly upheld by the fact that the babies who died at St. Elizabeth...