A CURE FOR CONSUMPTION.

Waikato Argus, Volume IV, Issue 272, 9 April 1898, Page 1 (Supplement)

A CURE FOR CONSUMPTION.

Nostrums for the cure of disease are frequently put forward, and probably no disease is responsible for more than consumption, that insidious malady which robs the world of the fairest and most amiable. From a correspondent to the Age we learn that in America a method of treatment has been discovered which is said to be curing hundreds daily, even in advanced stages of disease. So many thing of this kind have their origin in America that one believes reluctantly, but we give a description of the method as put forward by the correspondent to our Melbourne contemporary. It sterns that Professor Edison, of New Yi rk City, has demonstrated to the medka' faculty that by means of a special buttery coloured drugs may be passed through the system to any organ. "The medical electrician passes a powerful antiseptic through the luugs or chest and destroys every microbe. An antiseptic more powerful thin corrosive sublimate, also an American discovery, is in no way dangerous in any respect.' Uuder ordinary circumstances it might be well to stop at this point, for adding anything to a statement such as the foregoing is like painting the lily Diademing the rose ; but we proceed, for what follows is too good to be lost. In an article in the " Forum," March 1884, Dr. He-man Biggs, of the New York Hospital, makes the following statement : —" The indignant toe of science is about to kick a disease like consumption peremptorily off the planet. I not only declire consumption to be curable, but that with our present knowledge we have it in our power to completely wipe out pulmonary tuberculosis in a single generation " Another doctor says. "By a new process I project directly upon the lung or other orgau attacke 1 by tuberculosis an antiseptic which destroys the bacillus Koch. It can be injected through the skin, mincles, or any part of the body. My success has surpassed my hopes, and my collaborators had the same success." The result of statements such as these was that a committee of physicians was formed in Taris, and the report of their investigations was favourable to the new treatment. So perhaps there may be something in it after all.