The Syracuse Journal, Volume 4, Number 8, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 22 June 1911 — Page 6

The Cure for Pneumonia A? Pitt P Pond

NEUMONIA has its anti-toxin. It has been tried in four hundred cases with only four failures to cure, and those four were in extremis When first treated. And, in many instances, with pneumonia traveled its brother assassin, typhoid fever. It has been tried out in a new, raw country where pneumonia comes at its most violent and collects its heaviest death toll, but, even under these extreme condi-

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tions; it has been tried and apparently proved. Broadly the remedy is simple. A culture of the germs in a patient are taken. From each a vac- ' cine is developed, and an anti-toxin, made by mixing the vaccines in the exact proportions in which # the germs are found in the body, is injected in very large doses. Moderate doses are regarded as Ineffectual, merely serving to further entrench the causitive germs. But, by this remedy, they are not left standing room. They are cleansed from the body as with a hose. The three germs which combine to kill pneu-

monia patients are pneumococcus, the direct cause of pneumonia; staphylococcus, which is responsible for localized pustules and abcesses; and streptococcus, which causes ervsinelas and blood

erysipelas ana uiuua poisoning and is ever ready to attack the weakened human structure. Each of these germs develops a metabolic fluid which can be transformed into an antitoxin. As the doctors put it, the remedy is auto-gen-dus. Combine these self-created enemies, and send back an army of them, and the germs are annihilated. That is why all the two thousand cases treated have recovered. Once the anti-toxin was administered, the germs did not have a ghost of a chance.

This way to pneumonia’s swift thrust is the discovery of Dr. August Francis Schafer, a country practitioner of Bakersfield, California. If Dr. Schafer had been in Paris, instead of an oil town in the depthd of California, we would have been electrified by his discovery two years ago. As it is, he waited until he could bring it forth with its record of two thousand cases before he even took into his confidence the nearest medical society. Without those two thousand cases doctors would have been free to doubt. With them he has met the professional requirement of an Infallible remedy. How has he done it? How could a country doctor discover what all the laboratories of Europe have failed to reveal? These are natural questions. But jt was not a fluke. The discovery was not made by accident. Dr. Schafer studied disease germs diligently for ten years and developed a laboratory not matched in the hospitals of San Francisco before he Injected his anti-toxin into a human being. Then he tried it on himself to make sure that it was harmless. He Is a scientific student, with a thorough knowledge of medicine and surgery. Ho would have worked out his theories anywhere. The accident lay in the fact that he lived in Bakersfield. The Pneumonia Test. No more severe test could have been given the anti-toxin than Bakersfield has afforded in the past two years. In that district pneumonia accompanies most diseases, often in the duplex form. In ten per cent, of the cases abscesses develop in the lung, or pus accumulates in the pleural cavity. Moreover, it comes swiftly and strikes suddenly. The oil rushes have built towns in a night. Rapid change, exposure and bad water have been followed by typhoid and pneumonia. Men have gone to bed feeling badly and never seen the end of the next day. They have fallen in the streets as if stricken with a plague. But for two years now most of the physicians in that part of the country have been inoculating their patients with serum provided by Dr. Schafer, and, contrary to the experience of all previous rush settlements, there has been no epidemic of pneumonia. Extreme cases have been the rule in Dr. Schafer’s practice. Even after all hope has been given up, he has pulled patients through. Among the pneumonia cases cured by him, before he took the world into his confidence, were: * Two infants. Twenty children from two to eleven years old. Eight chronic alcoholics, three of whom had had delirium tremens. Sixteen cases with measles as well as pneumonia. Three with blood poisoning in their hands and legs In addition to pneumonia. Threo with peritonitis complications; and -a Twenty-two patients over sixty years old. Among eighteen cases of duplex lobar pneumonia was a man of ninety-two, an almost unprecedented recovery. There were, besides, two cases following operations at childbirth, one three and the other six days after. The second woman was In desperate straits when Dr. Schafer saw her. She had a pulse of 180, when it could be palpitated at all, and her temperature was 108.8. But

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the recovered. To develop the anti-toxi‘n from the patient’s genns takes several days, and Usually there is

no time to waste, so in his Bakersfield- practice Dr. Schafer worked out a rough formula which was found to be effective in local cases. He prepared what he termed a “mixed infection,” which is worth knowing about for the lives it has already saved. As far as experiments have gone, it might be called the pneumonia antitoxin. It is composed of equal portions of the counter-irritants to the three germs predominant in pneumonia. This mixture was the result of long experiment and is unquestionably a certain remedy for pneumonia in Bakersfield. It is made by stimulating the artificial growth of the three genns by ordinary laboratory methods until the metabolic fluid thrown off has progressed sufficiently, when the cultured mass is Incubated, macerated and disintegrated. The mixing of the resulting vaccines requires great skill. This stock anti-toxin will probably prove to be valuable anywhere. In the first* few days following the announcement of the remedy in January of this year, when San Francisco physicians could only believe it the work of a quack, Dr. Henry Spiro took a chance with it in a desperate situation, with astonishing results. “A, pneumonia patient was apparently dying,” he explained afterwards, “and, in what seemed his last breath, he begged for any relief. But I could do nothing for him, except try the new Schafer remedy. > And so, as a last resort, I Injected into his veins twice the amount of the anti-toxin Dr. Schafer prescribed. “An hour later he showed improvement. Before night he was out of danger.; In eight days he walked from the hospital. In much less serious cases it would ordinarily have taken him at least three weeks.” The charts and records of this case are in St. Francis Hospital, San Francisco. In practice the stock anti-toxin has been used, but, unless the patient has shown immediate benefits, cultures have been taken and special preparations made in which the anti-toxins have been mixed in the exact proportions in which the germs were found in the body. And, in every case in which this has been done, the patient has promptly rallied and got well. ■ 6 Two years ago Dr. Schafer took into his confidence four other physicians in Bakersfield. One of them, Dr. N. N. Brown, alone treated over a thousand cases without a death. Some of them were for publishing thed iscovery to the world. They said Dr. Schafer was hiding his light under a bushel. But Dr. Schafer was against it. He knew that if he had a real, enduring light, it would shine out from under the bushel. First it became known in the surrounding country that Bakersfield was the place to go to and be cured. Then the news gradually spread, and cure after cure made the light burn brightly under the bushel. But it was not until this winter that it attracted the attention of Sap Francisco physicians. Several, after listening to tales of seemingly impossible cures, went down to Bakersfield, dubious but curious. Among these visitors was Dr. Frederick Fehleisen, a scientific bacteriologist who discovered the micro-organism which causes erysipelas. He remained two weeks, and at the end of that time

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returned enthusiastic. After some difficulty he was able to persuade the San Francisco Medical Society to invite Dr. Schafer to deliver an address. The facts of Dr. Schafer’s cures were unbelievable, but the audience could not help being impressed by the intense, dynamic aspect of the man. They might doubt the possibility, but they could not doubt Dr. Schafer’s earnestness. Against their will they had to take him seriously. When the meeting closed, they arranged for a clinic at the Southern Pacific Hospital, where Dr. Schafer, in the presence of the chief surgeons of the biggest hospitals, agreed to cure every case that was brought before him. He accepted them as they came and the worst was reported cured in eight days. In other words, he was given a trial before a competent jury, and proved his case. At the February meeting of the San Francisco Medical Society Dr. Schafer was to speak at length and the hall was crowded, but there were many physicians present who had not had a first hand opportunity to study Dr. Schafer’s methods and, although he was supported by men whose medical reputations were above reproach, they refused to permit the society to endorse him. They held that it was a matter for each member to work out in his own practice. The address was never delivered, but, meanwhile, lives were being saved every day by the use of the anti-toxin. During that trying month in San Francisco Dr. Schafer was careful not to advance a single claim. He merely showed the results of his experiments and let them speak for themselves. To medical

men he was quite open, but a mystery surrounded him because he refused to talk for publication. He refused because he felt the delicacy of his position. As he himself expressed it, he was “the victim of the magnitude of actual accomplishment.” It would have been very easy for him to have acquired the reputation of a charlatan. But he is entirely savea from that by the fact that he has been furnishing his anti-toxin free from the beginning. Far from making money out of his discoveries, he has sunk his small fortune of $40,000 into his laboratory work and at one time, about five years ago, just before he clinched his discoveries, he went deeply into debt. Even at this is being written, he is preparing three hundred samples of his serums which are to be sent to leading physicians and surgeons in all parts of the United States. With them Dr. Schafer has agreed to leave the final verdict as to the value of his remedies. Other Tests. Pneumonia is not the only disease Dr. Schafer has cured, but it has attracted most attention on account of its seeming infallibility. Back of the remedies lies a new theory of medicine. Its principle is revolutionary. It disregards many cherished medical ideas. But it gets results. Little as they have been able to understand it, many of the best physicians and surgeons in San Francisco have recommended it. “Regardless of all doubts and theories,” said Dr. W. B. Coffey, the Southern Pacific surgeon, “I have seen real men who have been made well by it.” Other diseases in which Dr. Schafer has brought permanent cures with his anti-toxins are scarlet fever, rheumatism, diphtheria, typhoid fever, dysentery, erysipelas, tetanus and certain forms of tuberculosis. With that list let us stop and take breath. Altogether the various anti-toxins Dr. Schafer has produced have been used in 4,500 cases with only ten deaths. Os the 150 people treated in San Francisco only three died. This comes pretty nearly being a panacea. Do you see why Dr. Schafer is so canny with Als remarks? Suppose he had announced he could cure anything. He would have been promptly dicredited. But when you come righf down to it, Dr. Schafer is convinced that he can cure anything. The only disease he has encountered in his practice which he has not been able to cure entirely is tuberculosis. But even that has yielded, except in severe cases. It is Dr. Schafer’s expressed wish not to lay too much stress on tuberculosis. He fears too great credence. He does not wish to raise hopes. Nor does he want to have his office in Bakerfleld besieged by tubercular patients. At the present time he is planning to have his anti-toxins available in every community, where any doctor can administer them. He is firmly convinced in his own mind that he has brought a great boon to humanity, and he wants all humanity to have the advantage of it. There is to be no patent, no restriction of any kind on the development or use of his remedies. That is one of the reasons why those who have become acquainted with his work in California believe in him so completely.

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DRESSES FOR YOUNG GIRLS Charming Costumes Are Made Up in Woolens or Cottons —Lighter Shades Favored. Simple little dresses these, that may De made up in woolens or cottons. The first would look very charming made up in grey cashmere and silk of a slightly darker shade; the cashmere part of skirt is slightly eased into a deep band of silk 'ftt lower part; the bodice is cut kimono, and is of cashmere, silk being used for the lower part, which with the plastron and / J i 1 1 «B 'S 4* W lb a I ala V c/ li W ! i ■ '' \JKf/ HI I Hp w f JRlr V \ . ill kali P- ! 'ilLZXeit 0 ,i ... w ® ">-fr I ‘ r i Pri— J Lr±J small yoke are cut in one; silk bands finish the three-quarter sleeves and buttons trim both plastron and sleeve bands. Materials required: Three yards cashmere 46 inches wide, 3 yards silk 22 Inches wide, 1% dozen buttons. The costume on the right is in blue poplinette; the skirt is slightly eased in at the waist and at knees is trimmed with a band of soft satin. Here, too, the bodice is cut Magyar; it has a narrow panel of material carried down the center and continued over the band of satin In skirt; it is trimmed at each end with buttons. The collar and elbow bands are of satin. Materials required; Four yards 44 inches wide, 116 yards silk 22 inches wide. 8 buttons.

of marked simplicity, aside from its material, is of a sheer material, chiffon or mousseline, we do npt remember which, for the color was the thing that impressed one. It was shot with three colors—a soft green, a blue ae soft, and a light yellowish brown—and scattered over this ground were large black dots. With every movement of the folds, with every ray of light, the color changed and shifted, but it was never anything save harmoniously subdued. There was a little black satin about the foot of the sof|ly fulled skirt, the high waist line, and the cuffs. The neck was finished by a Dutch collar of beautiful muslin in yellowed antique embroidery. That was all, and a more delectable little frock for certain purposes has not been seen this season. WHITE VOILE DE SOIE. • Tunic of silk broderie anglasie, and vest of black and white striped taffetas. The large chip hat has a bow of raven’s-wing blue velvet Silk Sachets. Dainty little silk sachets are just the thing to tuck in your friend’s handbag when she goes on that journey. Thin silk wild roses, each petal dipped for days in scented powder, with artificial stamens, and the whole fastened on a white card, with a wee bit of verse printed under it. They are easy enough to make and as novel as they are charming. Then there are butterflies, with satin wings, beaded—even the sachets are beaded nowadays—and fat, padded bodies, containing the perfume. Others, even daintier, have rice paper ' wings, and the rounded bodies are of thin silk over net.

: LOW-CUT WAIST ESSENTIAL I i 1 Costume for Theater Must Have This Distinction—Both Comfortable and Suitable. ’ The low-cut waist is far more universally popular since the wearing of > evening dress at the theater has beE come fashionable. Today, although 5 there is no necessity for a really de--1 collete gown, the waist that is open ’ at the throat is correct in style and ■ incidentally is far more comfortable f and suitable than the one made of 1 heavy material and with high boned _ collar. Theater dress is quite important nowadays, and is practically the same as the simple dinner dress. The difference between it and the ball gown is evident to any one initiated into the mysteries of dress. It may be efery j whit as costly as the ball gown, but it ; must look less expensive and it must i be cut not so low and have, as a rule, I longer sleeves. This year there are many materials I that would seem to have been woven ! especially for this use. Among them I are the fascinating voile de sole, drap de sole, marquisette, and always the i old favorite chiffon and liberty satin. ! The satin-finished crepe de Chine and i lace, also, must not be forgotten.— I Harper’s Bazar. NEAT EFFECTS IN NEGLIGEE j Timely Suggestions for Wedding Gifts | Easily Made by Those Skilled in Needlework. A negligee that will make a wedding gift is a loose kimono, reaching below the waist and held to the figure : by ribbons drawn through eyelets at • side seams. 1 Persian lawn or Paris muslin is ’ serviceable, the edge finished with a German Valenciennes an inch wide. > A rayed disk design is drawn as a : border around the neck and down each side of the fronts; it may outline ’ the entire negligee. These are worked 1 alternately in warm pink and deep 1 baby blue, the straight rays running from a center of five French knots in black or sometimes from an outline • the color of the rays with the black I knots inside. i A finish is given by adding to- the . outside edge a qvartcr-inca blue rib- ' bon sewed on with trrehire sft-b in black and cn th* urdrr <• r r ' ribbon that e'tcucs bayard *1 • !:lv i Satin ribbon is effective. bat vast i badly.

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