CALCULI-A NEW CHEMISTRY AND THE INDICATED REMEDY



Scrambled eggs.

Buttered toast.

Cereal coffee or glass of milk.

Luncheon.

Cream of corn soup.

Cheese omelet.

Toasted crackers.

Sliced pineapple.

Lemon wafers.

Cereal coffee with cream and sugar.

Dinner:

Cream of tomato soup with saltiness.

Toast chicken.

Mashed potatoes.

Buttered carrots.

Corn muffins and butter.

Apricot and cream cheese salad. French dressing.

Vanilla blanc mange.

Glass of milk.

Sample Menu No.3

Breakfast:

Sliced peaches or pears (fresh or canned).

Oatmeal with cream and sugar.

Poached eggs on toast.

Marmalade or honey.

Buttered toast.

Cereal coffee or milk.

Luncheon:

Cream of celery soup.

Cold sliced chicken or lamb.

Baked macaroni with cheese.

Whole-wheat muffins with butter.

Apricot whip or rice and raisin pudding.

Cereal coffee with cream and sugar.

Dinner:

Cream of potato soup.

Broiled lamb chop.

Baked potato.

Creamed cabbage.

Buttered beets.

Pineapple and cream cheese salad.

Graham rolls and butter.

Orange-ice or fresh fruit compote.

Glass of milk.

ALKALINE ASH DIET.

For calculi due to urates (urine always acid)

Fruits: Bananas Oranges

Apples Blueberries Peaches

Apricots Grapes Pears

Pineapple Grits Vegetables:

Plumbs Oatmeal All except

Tomatoes Rice Asparagus

Dairy Products: Sago cabbage.

Tapioca Cauliflower

Hens eggs Rolls Eggplant

Cream White Bread Green peas

Milk Nuts: Lima beans

Butter.

Almonds Mushrooms

Cereals: Hazelnuts Spinach

Barely Walnuts Split peas.

These foods should be liberally utilized.

ACUTE STATE.

Sample Menu No.1

Breakfast:

Class of orange juice (chilled).

Oatmeal gruel with milk and sugar.

I soft-boiled egg.

Milk toast.

10:00 a.m.Glass of pineapple juice.

Luncheon:

Barley gruel.

Boiled rice with butter.

Carrots, pureed.

Sliced tomatoes.

Rolls and butter.

Sliced peaches with cream and sugar.

Glass of orangeade.

3.00 p.m.Glass of milk and vanilla blanc-mange.

Dinner:

Poached egg on toast.

Apple tapioca pudding.

Glass of grape juice.

9.00 p.m. Fresh fruit such as apple, orange or plum.

Sample Menu No.2

Breakfast:

Sliced bananas with milk and sugar.

Egg scrambled in milk.

Toast

Milk.

10:00 a.m. Glass of tomato juice (chilled).

Luncheon:

Baked potato with butter.

String beans,buttered.

Lettuce with French dressing.

White bread and butter.

Baked custard with fruit juice.

Glass of milk.

3:00 p.m. Glass of grape juice (chilled)

Dinner:

Oatmeal gruel with cream and sugar.

Vegetable plate with poached egg.

Blueberries.

White bread and butter.

9:00 p.m. Glass of pineapple juice (chilled).

Sample Menu No.3

Breakfast:

Glass of grape juice (chilled).

Oatmeal gruel.

1 soft-boiled egg.

Toast and butter.

Glass of milk.

10:00 a.m. Glass of organic juice.

Luncheon:

Tomato soup with rice.

String beans, pureed.

Creamed potatoes.

White bread and butter.

Floating island.

Glass of pear juice.

3:00 p.m. Glass of milk.

Dinner:

Glass of plum juice (chilled).

Barley gruel.

Poached egg on toast.

Baked custard with blueberries, other fruit.

Glass of milk.

9:00 p.m. glass of pineapple and orange juice.

Omit these foods in following diets:

Omit:

Alcohol Farina Peas, green

Anchovies Fish, all kinds Pork

Asparagus Goose Rabbit

Beans,dried Graham flour Rhubarb.

Beans, dried Graham flour Rhubarb

Beans, lima Hominy Sardines.

Beef Kidneys Shellfish.

Broths Lentils Soups, stock

Cauliflower lIVER sPINACH

Cheese Meat gravies Sweetbreads.

Coca Mushrooms Tea.

Coffee Mutton Tongue

Duck and all game Peas,dried Veal.

Sample Menu No.1

Breakfast:

Baked apple with cream.

Wheat with cream and sugar.

Poached egg on the toast.

Muffins (not Graham) with butter.

Glass of milk.

Luncheon:

Stuffed tomato.

Baked squash.

Beet and egg salad,French dressing.

Bread and butter.

Pineapple snow.

Glass of milk.

Dinner:

Baked potato with butter.

Buttered beets.

Sliced tomatoes and lettuce, French dressing.

Bread and butter.

Apple tapioca pudding.

Glass of milk.

Sample Menu No.2

Breakfast:

Stewed peaches with cream and sugar.

Cream of wheat with cream and sugar.

Boiled eggs.

Toast and butter.

Glass of milk.

Luncheon:

Macaroni and stewed tomatoes.

Lettuce salad, French dressing.

Bread and butter.

Orange sherbet.

Glass of milk.

Dinner:

Creamed potatoes.

Buttered carrots.

Vegetable salad, oil dressing.

Bread and butter.

Baked rice custard.

Glass of milk.

Sample Menu No.3

Breakfast:

Sliced oranges or orange juice (chilled).

Oatmeal with cream and sugar.

Scrambled eggs.

Rolls with butter.

Glass of milk.

Luncheon:

Creamed eggs on toast.

Creamed celery.

Alligator pear salad.

Bread and butter.

cup custard.

Glass of milk.

Dinner:

Scalloped potato.

String beans, buttered.

Bread and butter.

Fruit salad.

Fruit jelly cream and sugar or jello.

Glass of milk.

NATURAL ASH DIET;

Butter

Cream

Oil

Lard

Sugar

Cornstarch

Tapioca.

It is essential that the pH. of the body be determined before dietary regimen is instituted, and this should be checked at intervals while the patient is following his treatment. Each patient must be individualized and the constituents of the basic-i.e., the carbo hydrates, proteins, and fats-are varied until the desired pH. of the urine is attained. The patient is taught to make his own determination of the pH., The high Vitamin A ash diet is employed when calculi are composed of calcium, magnesium, phosphate, carbonates, uric acid, cystine or oxalates.

I quote from the International Medical Digest, June 1937, the British Journal or Urinology, 9: 36-46, March, 1937:.

In a collected series of 32 cases in which a calculus was too large to pass spontaneously, or was so located that its passage through the ureter and renal was impossible, spontaneous dissolution has occurred following dietary treatment in every case.

In one instance the calculus was composed of cystine and in three instances of uric acid. Obviously the alkaline-ash diet was used in this group.

In 28 cases calculi, composed of phosphates and carbonates which are formed in an alkaline urine, underwent dissolution. In this group the acid-dish diet was employed.

HOMOEOPATHIC REMEDIES.

By the foregoing discussion of this subject it comes evident that calculi are never a local disease, but a part of general body chemistry. Thus it becomes imperative to apple the remedy based upon the general characteristics of the patient and not upon local pathology. This explains the sometimes miraculous cures when a remedy selected for a given patient without knowledge of the calculus in his body has produced a apparent spontaneous cure of the calculus.

Chionanthus: has a marked effect upon blood calcium and Calcarea renalis and Lapis renalis reduce blood calcium, gravel and renal calculi.

These remedies are mentioned in Boerickes Materia Medica, 9th Edition.

I have made use of Calcarea renalis in those cases where no general symptoms of the patient were obtainable. In one patient now under treatment by this remedy alone a renal stone has been reduced to one-half its original size, radiographic pictures being taken every six months. Eventually it is expected that there will be complete disappearance of the calculi in this patient.

Phosphorus: in the pathogenesis of Phosphorus we find that Phosphorus destroys bone, disorganizes the blood. It is especially useful in tall, slender persons,narrow chested with thin, transparent skin; great nervous debility; very sensitive to external impressions, noise, odors, touch, electrical changes; great lowness of spirit; apprehension; loss of memory;craves cold, salty and sour;sour taste and sour eructations; water is thrown up as soon as gets warm in stomach; haematuria; turbid urine, brown with red sediment.

Mercurius cor.: Low spirit; urination frequent, painful with marked tenesmus; urine thick, acid, albuminous, containing granular, fatty bloody casts.

Arsenicum alb.: Restless; fretful, apprehensive, worse after midnight; headache with vertigo; oedema of lids; burning on urination; urine scanty, dark,yellow, turbid.

Lachesis;Vertigo, flickering before the eyes; vision dim with flicker before eyes; aggravation during and after sleeping; frequent urination urine copper colored or like coffee grounds,containing high percent of albumin;patient cannot ear anything right about body.

Cuprum ars: Vertigo,confusion,dark spots before eyes; frequent urging to urinate, burning lasting some time after urination; urine is dark red; great nausea; cramps in abdomen, fingers and toes.

Pareira brava:Sensation as if bladder distended; pains go down thighs; constant urging with great tenesmus; pains go down thighs during efforts to urinate; can emit urine only when he goes on his knees; incontinence after urination;violent pain in glands genus; itching along being buried alive.

Lycopodium: Most often indicated for urinate stones; worse right side of body or travels from right to left; intellectually keen but weak i muscular development; worse 4:00 to 8:00 p.m. Craves everything warm;acid eructations (water and gas); pain in the back before urinating; ceases after flow; slow in coming; must strain;. heavy urinate sediment. Polyuria,during night.

Argentum nit: Great desire for sweets;splinter-like pains; melancholic; hurried; time passes slowly; tremulous; eructations very loud; incontinence of urine;urethritis with pain, burning and itching, pain as from splinter; urine scanty and dark;emission of a few drops after having finished urination; bloody urine;worse from warm and cold foods; sweets; left side; better from eructations, fresh air, cold, and pressure.

C.P.Bryant
C. P. BRYANT, M. D.
Seattle.
Chairman, Bureau of Surgery