New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-04-14
A BOON TO HUMANITY.
NO LONGER AN INCURABLE
DISEASE.

A REMEDY AT LAST FOUND-bfS NhlNF%NA .
GREAT DISCOVERY BASED UPON PRoFEs.
soR KoCHs WELL PROVED THEORY
ITS SUCCESS IN EUROPE AND IN
PRODUCTION IN AMERICA.
Time was when he who caused two blades Of grass
TO spring where but one grow before was considered
tho greatest benefactor; but now he who adds to the
Of human happiness or to the span OF human ilte
Is more Justly so considered lie who conqueH dis
ease and battles death T. greater benefactor then no
who takes city lays province under subsection
From time lmmrmorlal, the most dread disease hash
been wha, we know famarly as consumption ana
which physicians term pbh IL Is feared, by reason OF
the extremely large number Of cases In which IL makes
Itself manifest OF the very largo proportion OF those In
which II proves fatal; the cruel discrimination win
which Il selects as IT, victims the falrost and the best
beloved Of the family and the mystery which has
up TO the present date envcoped II as to render us
unfathomable a. it, effects have beoh laia"
Up to within very short period Of time. physicians
have boon content to devise means Of aevating the
suffering and postponng the end OF the parents SUP,
mlted 10 them aud Il has been sadly notorious thst
the poor VINO could moi afford ldltn5ss special dot
and change OF climate have boeT beyond the reach OF
human help.,In a medical way. rE
with all this in Wow, il Is with special pleasure
that the encouragement is made, and with Speclh
interest that n can be received that the fell destroyer
death has been robbed OF OF his most deadly
weapons the sum OF human misery leasened by ono
most prominent cause. For without the shadow OF
doubt It Is both certain and proved that consumption
can be- has been and Is now being daily cured; and
that too by simple a. thoy Arc effective, and
as prompt In their action n they are permanent In
their effects; while their cheapness is equaed only
by their convenience
II is with double pleasure that to this important
announcement there may be added tho welcome
statement that It is to an American, a New.Yorker
graduate OF the New-York College Of
Physicians and Surgeons, that this won
derfl and important discovery Is duo
Dr. Louis WeIgert for some time back continuing HIS
medical studies and researches In Berlin, Germany,
seized upon the central fact In the great discovery
OF Professor Robert Koch, that consumption Is caused
by a mcrobo or "odriHas and discovered a method
by which this particular baeterfm may be destroyed
without injury to the nng other tissues Of the
patient and without personal discomfort.
II being known that any OF the bacteria can DO de-
stroyed by abnormal conditions OF heat or cold, and
that prolonged temperature Of 40 degrees Fahrenheit
was sufficient to Kill thom It remained for tho New
York saVant to devise method simple as effective
10 subject tho bdeiI,i lodged IN the lung tissue. to
the temperature which alone sufficient 10 destroy
them The apparatus which Dr., Weigert devised has
criticism by the bost specialists IN the Eastern Heml
It's purpose and effect Is to supply tho lungs Of the
patient with air a. temperature up TO oOOo
Fahrenheit without subjccng the rest OF the body to
any external increase OF heat,
In this country It has been we'll received by the
and Bccvae Hospitals II this City, the ST
Nary's and Harper's Hospitals OF Detroit Mch., ~
well rs In several sanitarums. 49,.
es,ed' by brother OF Dr. l. Wegert, OF 90 West 3oth
st. or Ry Messrs. John Reynders Co.. BOB Fourth
ave, corner OF Twenty third'st