NEW TREATMENT FOR CONSUMPTION.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16259, 9 July 1918, Page 5

NEW TREATMENT FOR CONSUMPTION.

PARIS,; May 17. Professor Domenico lo Monaco, director of the bi-cheinical section of the Lincei Academy at Home, is credited by the Italian scientific press witu a discovery which will revolutionise the treatment of tuberculosis.

. Processor lo Monaco, explaining his discovery, said he had observed that sugar had a remarkable effect on the secretions of the human organism. After seven years of study of these phenomena he bccame convinced that the secretions of saliva, bile, and the gastric and pancreatic juices were modified pronouncedly by the introduction sugar. This gave him the idea of applying this method to the bronchial secretions of consumptives. The first experiments made by this method on consumptive soldiers from thj front gave results far exceeding his expectation, he reports. There was rapid improvement in most cases, and ho obtained cures which appeared to be radical. '

Professor lo Monaco explained that the bronchial secretion is_ an indismynsnble medium for the existence of the tubercle bacilli, and that an injection of saccharose secretion diminishes and final'y disappears, the bacilli disappearing with it.