This section is from the book "A System Of Diet And Dietetics", by George Alexander Sutherland. Also available from Amazon: A System of Diet and Dietetics.
The treatment of hill diarrhoea is practically the same as for sprue. Bichloride of mercury is generally prescribed as an intestinal antiseptic, and the milk is peptonized or lactopeptin or ingluvin given along with it. The buttermilk or lactic acid ferment treatment seems worth a trial in this disease, for it is one in which bacterial decomposition of food is a specially prominent feature.
 
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