JAPANESE CURE FOR CONSUMPTION.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3765, 14 May 1907, Page 4

JAPANESE CURE FOR CONSUMPTION.

Some time ago a description of a Japanese cure for consumption called tuberculo toxoidiu.—a transparent fluid prepared in three strengths, which is injected into the patient—was published. Since then, says the Adelaide Register, Dr McDonald has been treating a man in the metropolitan area with the remedy, and has had him under observation for two months when the tuberculosis patient first submitted to the injection he weighed 9st. 10Mb, and on Saturday he turned the scale at lost. ft. Prior to placing himself under observation he expectorated almost incessantly, but since then on 41 days he has been almost free from it, and on 27 of these entirely so, and the proportion of bacilli in the sputum has been considerably reduced. At the first the man's two lungs were affected, but now, according to Dr McDonald, nothing of any significance can be detected in the chest at all. There have been 28 tests of the blood. The patient has slept indoors during the whole course, but has taken no cow's milk or drugs for the disease. His breathing capacity is now normal, and he can take deep breaths without pain. When first treated he was unable to work, but lately has been doing hard tasks. The cas e is under the close observation of a number of medical men.