Experiments with Gerson's diet for pulmonary tuberculosis

Abstract

E. Schwalm talks about experiments with Gerson's diet in pulmonary tuberculosis (Kl. W. 1929, No. 42). During 1928, at the Schneberg Tuberculosis Hospital in Berlin, 20 pulmonary tbc patients were treated according to Gersons. Neither auscultatory, nor percussion, nor radiological improvement was obtained in any case. Only in one case did the tbc bacilli disappear, but then reappeared shortly after discharge. Weight gain was obtained in all cases, but not more than with other methods of treatment, with Phosphorlebertran being the most important point here, since in those cases where it was not given, there was almost no weight gain. The author points out that Heilnet (Beitr. Klin. Tbc. 65.6), Gmelin (Ibidem, 66.4), Wichmann (Ibid. 66.4), Ritschel (Ib. 65.3), Schmitz also came to negative results. (Z. Tbk. 47.6) Liesenfeld (Betr. Kl. Tbk. 7,2,3).