SERUM FOE RHEUMATISM.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10058, 1 June 1910, Page 6

SERUM FOE RHEUMATISM.

The Academy uf Sciences, Paris, has appointed a Special Commission to report on the new treatment of rheumatic fever by a serum discover[ed by the young doctor, head "of the clinical department at the St. Antoine Hospital, M. Georges Rosenthal. Mr. Rosenthal, when visited in his flat in the Rue d'Edimbourg, handed the interviewer a little bottle containing a dark opalescent fluid. "That is my serum,*' he said. "It is derived from horses inoculated with rheumatism cultures.. Its essentia] effect is exercised on the general manifestations of acute rheumatism of the joints, and the grave after effects, such as heart weakness and deafness, which rheumatic fever leaves behind. "I am entirely satisfied with its efficacy in absolutely preventing such results, and I have tested it in a number of cases with the most complete success. My friendj and colleague, Dr. Thirolaix has succeeded by"means of the serum in decreasing and finally in entirely removing acute endopericarditis, with no traces left behind in getting rid of deafness and albuminuria. I have successfully treated St. Vitus's dance and that rare disease, ceiebral rheumatism, with my serum." / The injections are made in the region of the stomach, and their number varies with the acuteness of the disease. After the acute stage is past intermittent injections are given to prevent relapses.