The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-09-22
A LEPER CURED.
cued by Medical Science.

cued by Medical Science.
Professor Bettini, the celebrated Italian
naturalist who has made a lifelong study of
micro-organiSms, and knows all that can be
discovered about them with the present I'M
perfect apparatus, says that there are good
and bad organisms, just the same as there
are good and bad people. The professor
has also learned by experiments with these
organisms that some of them are natural
enemies, and when they nett will begin
battle at once and not stop till one or both
are killed. 1t was the result of the wonder
full discovery of this habit of the bacteria
which led DR.. Fuller of the Polytechnic Col
lege to try novel experiment at North
Brother Island, where patients having con-
tagious diseases are Isolated.
The patients that were treated are Isaac
Murray and Benjamin McGill. Murray had
that loathsome disease, leproSy, and McGill
mad cancer of the stomach and inteStneS.
There is little choice between the diseases so
far as the suffering of the patient goes, and
both are stamped incurable in the medical
records. Both patient; have been sick for
several years, and the diseases had advanced
to the last stage, when death would have
been q welcome visitor. Cancer and leproSy
begin with an Inflammation of the skin due
to micro-orgaDiSm, and the diseases are car
ried to the deep-seated tissues by intiltraton
effect upon the lerrosy of an inoculation of
cancer. 1t was barely possible that the two
germs might be an antagOnlsllc. i he Injection
of cancer was made in the abdomen and in
each leg OF the leper, and the effect was
anxously awaited. The leper took no inter
est in the proceeding, as so many things had
been done to him without being Of benefit,
until about a week after the operation
Then lie opened his eyes and began TO look
around him. His body was filled with new
and strange sensations sand hope CLEANED
through the misery in his soul. Strength
came INTO the wasted muscles, the vital or
gans picked up, and the nerves began 10
tingle with new life. His body shed the
coat of scales, the ulcers healed. the joints
became Timber and strong, the delusionS
disappeared from his mind, and over all
came the bright glow of health. Wonder
upon wonders! A leper cured! Such is
certainly the fact and the leper is as lively
as q cricket to-day. When the good effect
of the injection Of cancer was seen the re-
verse treatment WAS tried.
Some of the foul matter was taken from
an ulcer in the lcper's leg and injected into
McGiPs arms. The effect was rapid and
marvellous. There was, at first, a great de-
preston and sinking of vitality and then a
sudden change, when health seemed to come
back with bound. Several other injections
were made from time to time, and the effect
continued to be beneficial The surface over
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and. being internal, did not heal as quickly
as the leper, but the improvement was
steady, and the patient Can now take food
without any after trouble. Everything now
points to an absolute cure both OF the cancer
and leprosy, consummaiion devoutly to be
wished.
Leprosy and cancer have baffled the skill
of physicians everywhere for ages, and a
constant search is being kept up for some
specific that will strike at the root of the
evil Who can say that the specific has not
been discovered? Suppose the mcro-organ-
lsms that make cancers and lepIoSy are
natural enemies, and when they meet they
fight and destroy each other in the body !?
Then there can only be one result, and that
IS the cure of the disease. Other expert
menis are being made in the same line, and
30 FAR with good results and it may be that
Il way has been discovered to rid humanity
OF the terrible ravages of cancer and leprosy
and OF other diseases by bringing antagO-
nistic bacteria together in the same body
New York correspondence Cincinnati En-
Quirer.