THERAPEUTIC APPLICATION OF ACIDOPHILUS MILK IN SIMPLE CONSTIPATION
- 1 September 1933
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of internal medicine (1908)
- Vol. 52 (3) , 384-397
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archinte.1933.00160030045004
Abstract
Acidophilus milk as originally devised by Rettger and Cheplin in 19221was the culmination of a series of efforts to establish a culture medium for the growth and study of Bacillus acidophilus which would preserve a high degree of viability of the organism and serve to meet various experimental and practical needs. Intensive search during the past ten years by various laboratories for a substitute possessing the merits of acidophilus milk in a form that would be more readily portable and with a potency relatively permanent has not attained any degree of success, so far as we are aware. The principle of acidophilus therapy is based on the following well known observations: 1. B. acidophilus, or a closely related aciduric organism, constitutes the bulk of the intestinal flora of breast-fed infants. 2. The oral administration of lactose or dextrin to man and lower animals stimulates the development of B.This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: