TO CURE TUBERCULOSIS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2371, 11 December 1908, Page 5

TO CURE TUBERCULOSIS.

FRENCH PHYSICIANS EXPERIMENT WITH NEW SERUM.

A special cable to the New W>rk Times from Paris, dated Octobei 18, says:— Professor Lannolongue. a well-xuou n member of the Academy of Medicine, during three years’ investigation of tuberculosis, has obtained results which he modestly describes as sa [ ~ isfactorv,” but which several ot Ins colleagues in the Academy of Sciences, to whom Professor Lannelongue communicated his observations, dcclaie mark a now step in the campaign against consumption. Professor Lannelongue experimented with tubercular animals, treating them with a special serum. The results obtained were so successful that lie decided to experiment on- main “In making researches of this sort, said the doctor, “it is impossible to be too careful, and tlie results obtained by one man are not enough, that is why I confided my ideas to four other physicians, Drs. Co in by, Lenon, Leg* xv and Kuess, so that they might practise the treatment on their patients. During the year and a halt they have applied my method in tubercular cases in varying conditions, 'flic serum which 1 discovered witn A chard and Gailffajd, my collaborators, was taken from a donkey or a horse. ’ , “The experiments made on unman beings have been with serum of the clonkev, and tho results have been remarkable. Tlie conclusions reached by the four physicians are, theretoie, favorable. . . , “Gomby, after observations m eighteen eases, declares that the seium seems to be readily efficacious m cases of pulmonary tuberculosis of the hist and second degrees. All the invalids in this category,, ten in number, have been bettered or cured. The eleventh, died suddenly after improvement. “Dr. Kuess also bad considerable success in using the serum, and Dis. Lenoir and Legry had a similar experience. Professor Lannelongue’s report attracted much greater attention in tho medical world than tho fresh claims made by Dr. Doyen for his scrum treatment of cancer. In a paper read before the Congress of Surgery. Doyen cited several cases which had been declared hopeless, and winch lie said had actually been cured by lik treatment. He summed up as follows:

“The results of anti-cancer vaccination are now certain. It is indisputable that this method is the only, efficacious means of struggling against the extension of malignant tumors. The morality caused by cancer is, m "fact, constantly •augmented. This augmentation from ISSO to 1900, a period of twenty years, has attained the proportion of 20 to 30 per cent in all countries where exact statistics are .available. ’Hie progress. of the disease constitutes a groat social. danger, and vaccination against cancer ought to bo employed. not only in confirmed eases, where ,it is often too late., but in the beginning. It is necessary to learn to diagnose cancer early in order to treat if fully. .. “When physicians have learned to use the vacTcine it is probable the method can be employed as a pre-< ventive a? well as a pure."