A DIABETES CURE

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 305, 16 March 1928, Page 7

A DIABETES CURE

80 PILLS BEFORE BREAKFAST A story of a supposed new cure for diabetes was told at a Westminster inquest recently on Gustav Rothe, aged 66, of Frankfurt-on-Main, who was found dead in bed at the Strand Palace Hotel. Mr. Shurmer Sibthorp, a company director, said he met Rothe when he was suffering very badly from 2diabetes. Rothe was introduced to him a £ having a specific tha.t would have a curative effect. He had had one foot amputated for gangrene and was afraid he would have to lose the other foot. Rothe’s treatment consisted of pills containing guaicol and hydrochloric acid absorbed into little pieces o£ quartz, which was the carrier. Mr. Sibthorp said on the first morning he took 50 hydrochloric acid pills before breakfast, and next morning 33 minims of guaicol. This treatment he kept up for a week, afterwards increasing the doses until in four weeks he was taking 80 hydrochloric acid and 70 guaicol pills on alternate mornings before breakfast. Mr. Oddie: How long did you carry on? —About five weeks. Mr. Sibthorp said on Rothe’s advice he reduced the doses, and was now taking about 25 pills twice a week. “The treatment had an astonishing result, and I now' feel quite well. My gangrene has disappeared.” He was so pleased w'ith the invention that he intended becoming a partner of Rothe to push the pills. In four or five months he had given Rothe about £4OO to assist him. He was supplying doctors connected with Guy’s Hospita l, and the treatment vas being considered. Dr. Weir. pathologist, said that Rothe’s death was due to heart disease. He did not think the p 11s Rothe had been taking affected his death. _ , A verdict of death from natural causes was recorded.