The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1882-09-05

VALUABLE PAPER READ BY HIM AT TIE
ORIENTAL HOTEL, CONEY ISLAND.
New York Times, 3D.


Among the disease. which. like consump-
ton. cancer. hydrOphoba. and other fatal
maladies for which the pharmacopTia iur-
ni,heS no specific remedy, Cuncrumoris, ="
or gangrcnouStucer, has been cla>Sed by
the medical profession. DR.. Constantine
J. MacGuire, Of this city, yesterday read
an exhaustive paper Oil the subject before
a special meeting Of the Yorkyillc Mcdi-
cal Society, convened at the Oriental
Hotel, Concy Island, in which he claims
TO have discovered an cnectual rem
cdv for this deadly malady. From the
description given OF the disease by the best
medical authors rs well as from the graphic
details furnished Of IFS appearance at the
various stages IN several eases recently
treated by DR.. MacGuire, il seems to BE- Il
malady even more l0athsOme than that OF
leprcsy. About the latter part Of January
last. he said nineteen children were adj
mitted to the Refuge III charge Of the Sis
ters or st. Dominic, at SiXty-third street
and second avenue, OF which he Is the
medical officer. The children were in Il
weak and dcbiIitated condition, Occasi0ncd
by the bad and insufficient food furnished
them and the polluted atmosphere in which
they were confined in an Institution in the
lower BART Of The city, from which they
were removed when the establishment was
condemned hv the Board Of Health.
4 few days after their admission into the
! Refuge four OF them were attacked with
this fatal malady. DR.. MacGuire entered
into a detailed description OF the Symp-
/ toms OF The disease, and the appearance
presented during the various stages from
/ its inccption until death cpsucd in each
case. lie applied the remedies prescribed
/ by the best medical authorities, but they
proved Intellectual to check the progress OF
| The fatal malady. After SOHO weeks a
number Of new cases occurred. each hay
inc thc same Wcll.markcd symptoms OF
I gangrcnous Ulcer. Seeing the hopeless
mess Of following the line OF treatment
adonted before. he determined 10 try the
effects of sub-niratc OF bi.muth applied
externally to the affected parts. The
result was an immediate improvem nj
in the appearance 81 the ulcers, ana
I eventually 4 complete cure. From TIE Lrsl
oDnc,rancr OF the disease in the institution
IN 10 the present time twcnty-four cascs
were treated, including the four that
proved fatal; and ont ~ the twenty cases
treated with the sub-ntratc OF bismutl
only one resulted fatally. He cited the
opinions OF DrS. Eilotson, lsiiliet, Bar
tlaz. Neimeycr. West, and others to Nho"
that the disease was considered incurablc
Dr. West lost eight patients out Of ten
while Barthsz and Riliiet, OF Paris, only
saved one out Of tWcnty-one casts. III
discovery made 10y DR.. MacGuire respect
ng the curative propertic, Of bi>muih ii
dis malady WAS regarded by The member
present rs one Of the most valuable recent.
made in medical science.
DR.. W. V. White, vice-presidcnt o. w
Association, in discussing the merits oil IN
paper. advanced the opinion that the sun
nitrate Of bsmuth acted aS a germlcide ii
the disease under consideration, and ne re
Tcyed that new field OF investigation hat
been opened as TO its curative properties II
other kindred diseases. lie iet th2l III
medical profession in this country shou'
Lo>tow mere attention to the germ ihe0f
Of disease, which was now being 30 thol
> ourhIy investigated by the leading sc.cn'
ists in Europe.