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Sama Hoole @SamaHoole - 1860s Civil War: Union Army physician Dr. James Salisbury is treating soldiers who aren't dying from bullets. They're dying from disease - dysentery, typhoid fever, chronic diarrhea. The military diet is hardtack biscuits, beans, coffee, minimal meat.
Salisbury notices something peculiar. Soldiers who get access to fresh beef - usually officers or those near supply depots - recover from illness faster than soldiers on standard rations. Wounds heal quicker. Energy returns sooner. Digestive issues resolve.
He starts an experiment. Takes soldiers with chronic digestive problems and prescribes pure beef. Three times daily. Minced fine, lightly cooked, consumed with hot water. Nothing else. No hardtack, no beans, no vegetables.
The results are dramatic. Within days, diarrhea stops. Within weeks, soldiers gain weight and strength. Chronic cases that weren't responding to any other treatment suddenly recover.
After the war, Salisbury continues researching. He develops a theory: Most chronic diseases stem from fermentation in the digestive tract caused by eating plant material, especially starches. The bacteria fermenting these foods produce toxins that cause systemic illness.
His solution is simple: Remove the fermentable material. Feed patients pure beef. The digestive tract heals, bacterial overgrowth stops, health returns.
He treats patients for 30 years using this protocol. His patient records document successful treatment of tuberculosis, rheumatism, mental disorders, chronic digestive diseases, obesity, gout, anemia, and various other conditions.
The prescription is always the same: Minced beef, cooked lightly, three times daily, consumed with hot water to aid digestion. Continue for weeks or months depending on severity. Avoid all plant foods during treatment.
1888: He publishes "The Relation of Alimentation and Disease" documenting his findings. The medical community takes interest. "Salisbury steak" becomes named after him - originally a therapeutic food, not a convenience meal.
His work gains followers. Some physicians adopt his methods with their own patients and report similar success rates. For a brief period, the all-beef diet is considered legitimate medical treatment.
Then the pharmaceutical industry develops. Antibiotics, new drugs, profitable treatments for the same conditions Salisbury was treating with diet. Medicine shifts from dietary intervention to pharmaceutical management.
By the 1920s, Salisbury's work is largely forgotten. The name "Salisbury steak" remains but divorced from its medical origins. What was once prescribed as medicine becomes school cafeteria food with gravy.
Modern medicine doesn't teach about Salisbury. His clinical records show successful dietary treatment of diseases we now manage with expensive drugs. That's inconvenient for an industry built on ongoing pharmaceutical sales.
He treated thousands of patients over 40 years using only dietary intervention. No drugs, no surgery, just removing plant foods and feeding pure beef. His success rate was documented and published in medical journals.
His cure couldn't be patented. So it was memory-holed and replaced with treatments that generate revenue.