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are exhausted and in Cancer particularly you will
find it the most important article of the Mat
Medica. A lady was under my care with cancer,
she suffered much from pain and seemed to
sink daily under the irritation produced by it.
I put her on a diet of milk and vegetables and
she was much relieved by them. I hope therefore
in Chronic Lues venerea & Cancer &c you will
not forget its value. In Thesis, milk has been
much used and asses milk is still a proper
remedy in Europe. Galen in recommending
milk said it should be taken from the beast.
A modern writer has said that asses milk is an
asses remedy (here a story from van sweeten?).
There are several other kinds of milk used but we
should not use them unless we are necessitated
to do so. Milk soon loads the blood vessels & has done
much mischief in inflammatory diseases and
in some stages of thesis. A diet of milk is too