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whom I saw in consultation with D^r Pheysic Rush, he
was to use his own word rotten with disease and
from Caput ad calcis was in one blotch of
loathsome ulceration. He was put on a diet of
milk and bread & in a short time was to be
so much recruited as to be out of danger.
Lecture 7^th. At our last lecture we considered milk as a
diet. and I gave you some cases in which its efficacy
in removing disease was evinced when unassisted
by medicine. During the reign of the humoral
pathology milk was recommended, because they
thought it was immediately converted into chyle.
D^r Cullen has said it is good in cases where the
fluids are vitiated et&c, you know we at the present
day have discarded the ideas of vitiation of the fluid
by putrescency. But you will not forget that milk
in debility induced by whatever cause is our
most important remedy. In Lues venerea and
many other diseases where the powers of the system