Wholesome Food and Tuberculosis
The importance of wholesome food in combating tuberculosis is dwelt upon in The Dietetic and Hygienic Gazette (New York), in the following words: “Many people owe to . . . dyspepsia the lowered vitality which made possible the successful tubercular infection. While we plead for good tenements, while we strive to control the infection of air and dust, and demand the destruction of all sputum of all infected people in a community, let us bear in mind that people not yet infected, and people in whom infection has occurred but is held in check by present physical vigor, need from every etiological consideration of tuberculosis painstaking care of the digestive system; and for this purpose good cooks are better than druggists.”