Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 163, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1920 — HAS CURE FOR TUBERCULOSIS [ARTICLE]

HAS CURE FOR TUBERCULOSIS

Physician Declares He Has Found New Way to Fight Disease.

ATTACKS THE SHIM CAPSULE Increases Power of Blood to Digest Wax of Tuberculosis—-Claims a Large Record of Recoveries Even In Advanced Stages. - New York—Many physicians of this city have shown interest in a treatment for all forms of tuberculosis developed by Dr. Benjamin S. Paschall, formerly of Seattle, now of New York, end asserted by him to be more effective than quinine is for malaria. Tuberculosis is not thrown off easily by the body as many other Infections are, according to Doctor Paschall, because the germ manufactures for itself a capsule of wax which gives It a high degree of protection from the natural powers of the blood to digest and destroy germs and other foreign substances. ’' ' The problem which confronted him at the beginning of his research In 1907, according to Doctor Paschall, was to find a method of increasing the power of the blood to digest the wax of tuberculosis germs. The theory which Doctor Paschall finally adopted was analogous to the use of iron as a tonic. The blood does not digest iron. But iron, treated with certain acids, makes a compound which the blood can digest. Doctor Paschall set out, he said, to combine the wax with chemicals into a substance which the blood could absorb. His object was to cause the blood to .manufacture digestive Juices which, [after absorbing this compound, would remain in the blood to break up and expel the wax of the tuberculosis Jyiius. Doctor Paschall, then, according to bis statement, devoted himself to the study of waxes and sent all over the World tor different types. The analysis isf the tubercle wax showed that a [great many substances entered Into its •composition. Asserts Self-Cure. He produced his first treatment In ,1908. After various experiments on Igulnea pigs and other animals he became satisfied that he had discovered a valuable therapeutic agency, and his first human patient was himself. He had been a sufferer from tuberculosis, and he believes that he cured himself with injections of the compound which he had then made. The theory on which the treatment was worked out resembles that on which salvarsan was developed, although differing in some particulars. Doctor Ehrlich, who announced his discovery in 1910, found a coal-tar compound which stained the parasite which be sought to destroy, but did

not stop its activity. He combined that chemical with arsenic constituents. This compound, in staining the parasite, released the poison which destroyed its action, without hurting the human body. This process Is reversed by Doctor Paschall, who possessed the latent enemy of tuberculosis in the wax, but had to find chemical combinations which would make It available. His “mycoleum” differs also in that it Is a combination of chemical and bacteriological products, whereas salvarsan Is a union of chemicals only. And, while salvarsan attacks the parasite directly, the mycoleum is supposed to excite the blood to make the attack. He at first used the treatment only in the case of persons in advanced stages of tuberculosis, who asked for It Even in the advanced stages Doctor Paschall claims a large record of recoveries. Doctor Paschall had scores of letters from former patients and phy-

sicians on the Pacific coast testifying to the successful use of mycoleuna One is from a physician who said that he was cured within a week of tuberculosis of the eyes, which had threatened to destroy his sight, after a long treatment by other methods. In this case Doctor Paschall asserted that he had treated the man when he was in. a hospital, almost blind, and when surgeons were preparing to remove one of his eyes in the hope of saving, the other. On the following afternoon.) according to Doctor Paschall, he found the man on the outside of the hospital cranking .up his automobile and preparing to ride home. In cases of tuberculosis of the eyes, throat or kidneys or other forms. In which the diseased part is in close communication with the blood stream, the beneficial' results are manifest In a few hours, it was stated. In the case of tuberculosis of the lungs the germgJUffused through the body are said to be digested within a few hours after the first treatment, and the patient regains much of his energy and feeling of wellbeing. Bone and joint tuberculosis are said to yield readily to the treatment. Because mycoleum is in a laboraratory stage of manufacture, only a small quantity is In existence and Ito present cost Is between SI,OOO and $2,000 a pound, each pound containing about 150 doses. Enormous quantities of tuberculous germs have to be grown in order to obtain a small amount of the wax.