SPAHLNGERS TREATMENT.

Hokitika Guardian, 22 August 1923, Page 3

SPAHLNGERS TREATMENT.

PROCESS DESCRIBED. AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CADLR ASSOCIATION. (Received this day at 10 a.i11.) LONDON, August 21. A remarkable article in the ‘‘Daily Express" shows the risk of loss to the world through Spahlingor’s impoverishment.

The “Daily Express" sent a. special correspondent, Mr Philpolt, to Switzerland to investigate Spahlingor’s tuberculosis cure. Mr T’hilpoit cables from Geneva a long account of the process, requiring infinite patience and extensive resources. Spahlinger's achievement is based on theory but, unlike other bacilli, which produce toxins as waste matter, the tubercle bacilli ) rod lice theirs only as a means of self-defence when attacked. Mr I’hilpott. describes the four years’ processes as necessary to produce the serum, beginning with the innoenlsiiion of guinea pigs and ending with the painless bleeding of horses. Spahlinger discovered twenty two different kinds of toxin. At the end of the third year he isolates these dondly varieties;. Only one poison must he injected into the same horse therefore he must have a minimum >i twenty-two horses for preparation ot one type of specific. 'When horses are hied the result is that twenty two different kinds of partial sera which, together, make a complete serum. T n reality, however, the .serum, although it. brings an advanced 'ease back to life, is less impoitant than tlie vaccine which both cures and prevents a. further attack. Aemrding to Spalilinger an advanced eas,. restored by the- Serum is on the same plain' as the less advanced ease, for which the serum is unnecessary and that where the vaccine is utilised. Spahlinger extracts from the tubercle bneeilli. all its component parts and injects them one by one into the patient. The first series of injections trains the defence power of the patient to destroy that- particular component and the second and third series set up a defensive power against other components and so on until the patient’s organism is itself trained to produce its own antidotes and achieves complete resisting powerthus the serum, by eliminating 'Hie;, poisons, enables the broken down '’e- H 5 fences to re-establish themselves. The vaccines give these re-established defences victory.

Dr. Spahlinger thinks he could reduce tuberculosis by ninety per cent by vaccination. I fie is now experimenting with cows to discover how long the immunity by vaccination gives. Spahlinger lias given wavs enough tubercle to kill a township. Periodically one is killed, and an autopsy is made, yet in no ease has the presence of tubercle bneeilli been discovered.

I)r. Spahlinger, owing to impoverishment lias TTeen obliged to sell some of his cows and his horses, so work lags and even partial serrn and vaccines are oeeoming less.