Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 June 1893 — A NEW CURE FOR CONSUMPTION. [ARTICLE]

A NEW CURE FOR CONSUMPTION.

Remarkable Results Achieved by a. Japanese Physician. From Japan comes the news that Dr;.. Kitasato, who studied under Koch in Berlin and discovered the bacillus of tetanus, has actually succeeded in curing: consumption in advanced stages by. means of some new applications ot Koch’s remedies. The news was brought by Professor Clay McCauley, of. Tokic, who arrived at San Francisco^. recently, on the steamer Oceanic. He said:

“The Government has granted $45,000 to Dr. Kitasato for this year and $15,000 for each of the next two years to prosecute the study and treatment of cholera,. abominable typhus, diphtheria and consumption. During the last winter Dr. Kitasato has accomplished some remarkable results with consumption. Four out of five patients who had been treated two months were discharged cured, and 125 who bad been in hospital only a few weeks showed marked improvement. None of the patients had passed beyond! the second stage, nor had cavities formed in their lungs; but all were emaciated and had night sweats, several coughed sixty grammes of sputum dally. One had been in bed six weeks before being, treated, AU* showed signs of markedimprovement within a month. The sputum decreased and there was gain inflesh. No publicity has been given to these remarkable results, because the Government hospital will not be con>pleted before early June. Then announcement will be made and it is expected that hundreds will flock to Tokio.. ' ‘ The treatment is a modification of Koch’s. A preparation of tubercaline is injected under the skin and taken into the blood. Its effect is to give immunity to healthy lung tissue and thus enable the diseased portions to recover health. The most noticeable effect of Dr. Kitasato’s method is the absence of reactionary fevers, which have followed, the use of tubercaline in Germany. Im only one case did this fever occur, and then but once. Hence the patient’s strength is not weakened. Of course it cannot be stated positively that the four consumptives discharged are cured. Time irione can show that, but it is a great thing to say that several men, who seemed hopeless victims of the disease, are now apparently well, and th it many others are on the way to recovery. “Dr. KitAsato wss sent in 1883 by Japan to Berlin to study under Koch. He • developed the bacillus of tetanus andi the method of using it. He studied with. Koch seven years. Now his services aregiven to the Japanese Government. He seems to have no desire for money but ismoved solely by a desire to help his people, among whom consumption and. cholera annually slay thousands.”