SPAHUNGER TREATMENT

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5106, 28 March 1927, Page 3

SPAHUNGER TREATMENT

NEW ZEALANDER’S TESTIMONY. MAJOR E. S. HARSTON’S CURE. There is no cessation in the publicity given to the Spahlinger treatment by the Daily Express. Methods c.f raising money far .the introduction of the treatment into England arc discussed, and in this connection a New Zealander, Major E. S. Harston, who has benefited from the treatment, comes into prominence. Dr. E. Graham Little, M.P., quotes a letter sent by Major Harston, from Geneva, c,n behalf of Mr Spahlinger, ta an English patient. In this Dr. Little says :— ‘‘A letter which lies before me, written within the last three months, from Chemin de Shampel, Geneva, and signed E. S. Harston, in response to aii application by an English patient ’for treatment by Mr Spahlinger, in which the writer says he is replying on behalf of Mr Spahlinger—presumably, therefore, with his full anthority and sanction —contains the following statement: “ ‘As you are no doubt aware, until recently a(I his patients were treated free, with the result that M. Spahlinger has expended a large ‘fortune on his work. Owing to grave financial difficulties his English friends and patients have suggested that all new patients, should make a donation o‘f £5OO to the institute in order to help carry on the wm-.k, and this has been done by the majority pf patients now undergoing treatment. If you feel that you can assist in this way will you let me know, and I will s?e if it is possible to arrange for treatment ?’ ” A DEFINITE CURE. Major Harston describes his own recovery in the following letter :— “I have read with great surprise the statements in your columns from Dr. Thomas Nelson. I ask you to be good enough to publish this letter, which gives the experience of a patient who has not only been successfully treated himself, but who has seen many other cases which have had the good fortune to receive similar benefits.

“In my own case I was ’for two years in a sanatorium, and there had tuberculin as well as other treatments. I spent practically the whole time In bed, with constant cough, frequtijjtly stained sputum, and numerous bacilli. I was discharged weak and hopeless, with the assurance that everything possible had been done far me, find spent another year in bed in my own home, where I had two severe hemorrhages. “I then had a course of Spahlinger serum, with results that were so definitely good that I went to Geneva“The cessation of treatment, owing to the, voyage and the difficulties of the journey, caused a relapse. My condition on, arrival was far ’from good. Perhaps I may be permitted to quote from one of the brilliant series of articles on the labptatory written by your special correspondent, Mr H. R. S. Phillpott, which appeared in the Daily Express on August ,20, 1023, referring to my case:— 13,000-MILES JOURNEY.

“ ‘There is a young New Zealander,, with eyes too bright and cheeks too sunken. He arrived not an hour ago 'from a 13,000-miles journey to the whit© house, where he thinks death will be cheated.’

“For two and a half years no bacilli has been found in my sputum, I lead a leisured, normal life, my cough has gone, a chronic fistula has healed, and so also, my medical advisers assure me, have my lungs.”