Cure for Consumption.

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 119, 18 November 1896, Page 3

Cure for Consumption.

A French lady hr.s offered a prize of about J-82,000 in English money, for an effective cure of consumption, and has placed the money in the bands of the French Academy of Medicine. A Home letter states, says the Ashburton Mail, that a son of Mr E. F. Wright, lately of Ashburton, and a son of Mr E. (i. Wright, of Wmdermere, will enter the competition. Mr E. F. Wright made etiology his study for a long period, and having noted the action of phosphorus on both plant and animal life, came to the con* elusion that in phosphorus we had an agent that would be effective in battling with the great scooree consumption. In the prosecution of his investigations be discovered a mode of using phosphorus in consumptive cases, and under proper medical supervision he had tried, with j sufficient success to warrant further investigation. His mode of treatment is his secret, but it is now nuder investigation by an eminent physician, with a view to recommendation by that authority to the French Academy. Under that body, and in the competition for such a prize as that offered by the Paris lady, Mr Wright's cure for consumption is likely to be put to the most exhaustive test possible.