Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1891 — Goat's Blood for Consumption [ARTICLE]

Goat's Blood for Consumption

Paris Special. Professor Berheim has submitted his report to the Academy of Medicine, regarding experiments made to cure tuberculosis by the transfusion of a goat’s blood. The Professor, in his report, says that fourteen patients have been treated by this system, and that two of them in the last stages of anaemia were cured. Ten of thejremaining number, suffering from tuberculosis, the report adds, have greatly improved under the new treatment, and the last two oi the fourteen patients, both of whom were in an advanced stage of consumption, died six weeks after re. ceiving the first transfusion of goat’s blood. Professor Berheim declares that the goat s blood treatment has an important effect in the first stages of consumption, but adds tc should not be used in the last stages