MILK CURES MANY DISEASES

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MILK CURES MANY DISEASES

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by J. R. Crewe, MD

 

The following is an edited version of an article by Dr. J. R.

Crewe, of the

Mayo Foundation, forerunner of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN,

published in

Certified Milk Magazine, January 1929. We are grateful to Dr. Ron

Schmid, ND

of Middlebury, CT for unearthing this fascinating piece. The " Milk

Cure "

was the subject of at least two books by other authors, written

subsequently to

Dr. Crewe's work. The milk used was, in all cases, the only kind of

milk

available in those days†" raw milk from pasture-fed cows, rich in

butterfat. The

treatment is a combination of detoxifying fast and nutrient-dense

feeding.

Note that Crewe quotes William Osler, author of a standard medical

textbook of

the day. Thus, this protocol was an orthodox, accepted therapy in

the early

1900s. Today the Mayo Clinic provides surgery and drug treatments,

but nothing

as efficacious and elegant as the Milk Cure

 

For fifteen years the writer has employed the certified milk

treatment in

various diseases and during the past ten he had a small sanitarium

devoted

principally to this treatment. The results obtained in various

types of disease

have been so uniformly excellent that one's conception of disease

and its

alleviation is necessarily changed. The method itself is so simple

that it does

not greatly interest most doctors and the main stimulus for its use

is from

the patients themselves.

To cure disease we should seek to improve elimination, to make

better blood

and more blood, to build up the body resistance. The method used

tends to

accomplish these things. Blood conditions rapidly improve and the

general

condition and resistance is built up and recovery follows.

In several instances, Osler (Principles and Practices of Medicine,

by

William Osler, MD eighth edition) speaks of milk as being nothing

more than white

blood. Milk resembles blood closely and is a useful agent for

improving and

making new and better blood. Blood is the chief agent of

metabolism. Milk is

recognized in medical literature almost exclusively as a useful

food and is

admitted to be a complete food.

The therapy is simple. The patients are put at rest in bed and are

given at

half hour intervals small quantities of milk, totalling from five

to ten

quarts of milk a day. Most patients are started on three or four

quarts of milk a

day and this is usually increased by a pint a day. Diaphoresis

[copious

perspiration] is stimulated by hot baths and hot packs and heat in

other forms. A

daily enema is given.

The treatment is used in many chronic conditions but chiefly in

tuberculosis, diseases of the nervous system, cardiovascular and

renal conditions,

hypertension, and in patients who are underweight, run-down, etc.

Striking results

are seen in diseases of the heart and kidneys and high blood

pressure. In

cases in which there is marked edema, the results obtained are

surprisingly

marked. This is especially striking because so-called dropsy has

never been

treated with large quantities of fluid. With all medication

withdrawn, one case

lost twenty-six pounds in six days, huge edema disappearing from

the abdomen

and legs, with great relief to the patient. No cathartics or

diuretics were

given. This property of milk in edema has been noted in both

cardiac and renal

cases.

Patients with cardiac disease respond splendidly without

medication. In

patients who have been taking digitalis and other stimulants, the

drugs are

withdrawn. High blood pressure patients respond splendidly and the

results in most

instances are quite lasting. The treatment has been used

successfully in

obesity without other alimentation. One patient reduced from 325

pounds to 284

in two weeks, on four quarts of milk a day, while her blood

pressure was

reduced from 220 to 170. Some extremely satisfying results have

been obtained in a

few cases of diabetics.

When sick people are limited to a diet containing an excess of

vitamins and

all the elements necessary to growth and maintenance, which are

available in

milk, they recover rapidly without the use of drugs and without

bringing to

bear all the complicated weapons of modern medicine.

Under the head of Treatment in Chronic Gastritis, Osler has

said, " A rigid

milk diet should be tried " (Principles and Practices of Medicine,

by William

Osler, M.D., eighth edition). And quoting from George Cheyne, he

wrote, " Milk

and sweet sound blood differ in nothing but color: milk is blood. "

Under the

heading of treatment in many diseases, it was true that he had

little to say

about drugs but did say a good deal about diet and particularly as

in most

every instance he recommended large quantities of milk.

Under chronic Bright's disease (p 704) he says, " Milk or buttermilk

should

constitute for a time, the chief article of food. " Under treatment

of cancer

of stomach (p 505), he says many patients do best on milk alone.

Under

treatment of rheumatic fever (p 378), he says, " Milk is the most

suitable diet. "

With Olser as a background, one need not hesitate to go a bit

farther. In fact,

practically all medical men are agreed as to the value of milk as a

food, and

as an important part of the diet in the treatment of many diseases.

But as

the chief remedy in the treatment of disease, it is seldom used.

For more than 16 years I have conducted a small sanitarium where

milk is

used almost exclusively in the treatment of various diseases. The

results have

been so regularly satisfactory that I have naturally become

enthusiastic and

interested in this method of treating disease. We used good

Guernsey milk,

equal to 700 calories to the quart.

Interestingly, diseases that have no similarity respond equally to

this

treatment. For instance, psoriasis clears up beautifully. The

improvement in

tuberculosis or nephritis is equally interesting but there is no

similarity in

these diseases. I once heard a very distinguished medical man

discussing a case

of psoriasis. He said, " This was the worst case of psoriasis I have

ever

seen. This boy was literally covered from head to foot with scales.

We put this

boy on a milk diet and in less than a month he had a skin like a

baby's. " To

me, this means that there was evidently some nutritive substance or

vitamin

or glandular secretion lacking, that was furnished by the milk.

It is well known that there is no time in the life of practically

any

mammal, but especially of the human, when the body is so beautiful

and perfect as

during the period when milk is the only food. It will be admitted

that there

is no period in life when the body is so perfect as in infancy, the

infant

being fed on milk from a healthy mother.

The Arabs are said (Encyclopaedia Britannica) to be the finest

race,

physically, in the world. Their diet consists mostly of milk and

milk products with

fruits and vegetables, and some meat.

You are all familiar with the writings of Colonel McCarrison, a

medical

officer in the British Army. He tells us that for nine years he was

stationed in

India in a district in the Himalayan Mountains. He said that the

natives were

very fine physically, that they retained a youthful appearance to

advanced

age and lived long and that they were very fertile. During the nine

years of

his residence there he saw practically no disease, no cases of

malignancy or

of abdominal disease. The diet of these people was simple and

consisted

principally of vegetables and fruits and milk and milk products.

Steffanson wrote most interestingly of the Eskimo, who, when

uncontaminated

by civilized conditions were hardy and robust. Their diet of course

was

almost entirely of meat and fish. He tells us, however, that the

habits of

meat-eating people are similar to those of carnivorous animals. The

wolf first

attacks the heart and gets the blood and later eats the glandular

organs and

viscera, leaving the muscle meats till the last. The Eskimo does

the same thing.

During one expedition Mr. Steffanson and party started on a nine

months'

trip over the Arctic ice with only one day's provisions. All

previous Arctic

explorers had said that civilized men could not live in the Arctic

regions

without bringing in their supplies. Mr. Steffanson and his party,

during the nine

months, were almost never without an abundance of food, and much of

it was

eaten frozen and raw. I wish to show from Steffanson's experience,

first, that

it is possible for people to be robust and maintain good health on

various

types of food of limited variety. That the condition common to all

types of

diet is, that much of the food is eaten raw. I wish to say here

that our very

excellent results obtained in the treatment of disease were had

with uncooked

food and raw milk.

The experience of seeing many cases of illness improve rapidly on a

diet of

raw milk has suggested more and more the feeling that much of

modern disease

is due to an increasing departure from simple methods of preparing

plain

foods. The treatment of various diseases over a period of 18 years

with a

practically exclusive milk diet has convinced me personally that

the most important

single factor in the cause of disease and in the resistance to

disease is

food. I have seen so many instances of the rapid and marked

response to this

form of treatment that nothing could make me believe this is not

so.

We have often seen most satisfactory results in the treatment of

anemia,

including pernicious anemia, on a milk diet. I have repeatedly seen

a marked

reduction in the size of simple and toxic thyroid, with improvement

in the

symptoms of the toxic one. In prostatic diseases and associated

conditions, this

treatment will achieve rapid and marked improvement in the

infection and in

the reduction of the gland and lessening of obstruction. A

professor of surgery

in one of our state universities once said to me, " Since I have

used your

method in preparing prostate cases, I have had most excellent

results and no

mortality. " I replied that if he had continued the treatment a

little longer,

he would not need to operate. All infections of the urinary tract

are greatly

improved by this treatment.

An old friend of mine, a woodworker, aged 74, had a marked heart

lesion and

complete prostatic obstruction, so that it was necessary to use a

permanent

catheter. He had been taking digitalis but this was discontinued,

and he

received no medication of any kind. The prostate was very large and

the residual

urine very foul. His recovery has been rapid, and he has been able

to work

since that time and is now in very good health at 77 years of age.

Another local

man was treated six years ago for a severe chronic winter cough and

prostatic disease, which necessitated his getting up many times at

night. He

volunteered the information a few days ago that he had no more

trouble with any

illness since that time.

Indeed we had a number of patients who took the treatment

for " beauty

treatment. " The tissues become firmer and the general appearance is

markedly

improved.

One patient with very advanced cardiac and nephritic disease lost

over

thirty pounds of edema in six weeks. One would expect the large

quantities of

fluid would increase the edema but the above experience has been

repeated many

times in lesser degrees.

Hypertension responds with equal gratification. The blood pressure

improves

rapidly. I have never seen such rapid and lasting results by any

other

method. One of the patients lived almost exclusively on milk for

more than three

years.

About ten years ago a very sick man came to the Sanitarium

suffering from a

severe cystitis and nephritis. He was a diabetic. As milk contains

about five

percent milk sugar, it was feared that he could not manage this

amount of

sugar. But he did manage it, and improved in every way and in eight

weeks was

sugar free. My experience with milk diet in diabetes has been

limited, but

very interesting. These few patients, only seven or eight, have

been much

pleased with the results. Insulin was used for a time in some of

the cases. They

all became sugar free, or nearly so, after from four to ten weeks.

From the

fact that these patients were able to use a much more liberal diet

than

diabetics usually can take [after the treatment], it would seem to

indicate that at

least a partial regeneration of the pancreas is not impossible.

Recently I received a letter from a soldier who was confined in a

government

hospital in Arizona [for tuberculosis]. He said a former patient of

mine had

induced him to try this method. He said that he had done so well

that a

number of the men were also attempting it and he had written for

more definite

instructions. He also said that the patients had to buy their own

milk and

received no encouragement from the hospital authorities.

There is a large class of patients who are ill but in whom no

definite

organic lesion can be found. These patients are often underweight.

They may

consume a fairly large amount of food but they do not gain in

weight or strength.

These patients do respond admirably to our system of large

quantities of milk.

The chief fault of the treatment is that it is too simple. Patients

attempt

to do it at home, but there are many pitfalls, and it does not

appeal to the

modern medical man.