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Title: Interstate medical journal
Year: 1909 (1900s)
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Subjects: Medicine
Publisher: St. Louis, : Interstate Medical Journal
Contributing Library: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Historical Medical Library
Digitizing Sponsor: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia and the National Endowment for the Humanities

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harmless food of unequalled power and virtue, so perfect that theeconomy needs not even drinking water and in its raw state daily ingestedin any amount will not be found to be a medium for the transmission ofthe germs of contagious disease. KOLIPINSKI: MOVABLE KIDNEY 799 The milk should be taken at two hour intervals, beginning early andcontinuing as late at night as may be necessary to consume the quantityfixed upon. The effects of the milk diet on the organism of the patient whoseweight is to be increased are the following: The blood volume is raisedto normal, if deficient, and likewise the composition and quality. It isa direct food and restorer to the heart muscle and increases the normalsecretions and excretions. It augments the biliary flow, greatly increasesthat of the urine and. regulating the evacuant function of the bowel,cures constipation. It makes one animated and cheerful, increases weight very much whensubnormal, strengthens the muscles and tegumentary system. It causes
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Fig. 4. Multipara, aet. 29. Right movable kidney in natural place. profound and refreshing sleep. It rouses appetite to a stage of hungerbut abrogates entirely the sense of thirst. The following notes of some cases of movable kidney cured with amilk diet explain the method in practice and show with what ease andaccuracy it is possible to restore the deficient weight to the body by therapid and normal deposition of fat. Case I. Married lady, mother of two children; age 30 years; height5 feet 4 inches; standard weight 129 pounds. Had a movable right kidney for five years, discovered soon after thebirth of her second child. At that time nephrorraphy was urged by asurgeon, but deferring to the wishes of her family, who feared for hersafety in view of her weak and debilitated state, operation was de- 800 INTERSTATE MEDICAL JOURNAL clined. She became an exquisite example of invalidism from this cause.Standing and walking were associated with abdominal pain, dull drag-ging or acute. The disl

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