The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-08-26
STARTLING MEDIoAL DISCOVERY.
Experiments Which May Lead TO a
Cure for Consumption.
Froyo ths Chfcnoo Tribune

Cure tor COnsum ption.
From the CHICAGO Tribune.
PARIS, AnR. 20-Dr Graneber. the most
cherished of M. Pasteur's pupils, has read
before the Academy of Sciences report of
experiments which. in conjunction with NJ.
H. Martin, he has been making with a
view to discovering a remedy for that dread
disease which has hitherto completely baf-
fled medical science-tuberculosis. The
matter was one of such vital Importance
that the Tribune correspondent called upon
NJ Graneher to-day TO learn the result of
the experiments.
Yes, we have reached in our expert
ments such stage as justIfies the hope that
we shall sooner or later have at our dis
posal the means of effectively combating
consumption" said DIR. Graneher modestly.
LAS yet, however, we are far from our
ultimate goal; SO much so. in fact, that we
should not have made our experiments pub
lie had 1T not been for Prof koch's commu-
nication to the Berlin medical congress-
The German professor. it will be remem-
bered, read paper stating that
he had found chemical which
rendered guinea pigs impervious to
tuberculosis. Coming from an unknown
physician the announcement would have
probably passed unaotloed, but made by
Prof Koch it was of supreme import
ance Mr.. Koch stated that he had been
experimenting for year past. We began
o II experiments five years ago, though than
Jes not, Of course, prove that we are any
further advanced than he is. Exactly what
we have succeeded in doing is this We
have iaoc llated rabbits with bacilli tuber-
culoses in quantity sufficient to
make fatal result certainty
| Then, with our treatment, which, of
| course, we must keep secret until we are
assured of its value. we have kept those
rabbits alive from 200 to 500 days On ex-
| aiming them after death we have found the
| spleen and liver healthy without any trace
of tubercular bacilli. The rabbits which
we have inoculated with an exactly similar
| quantity of microbes and which we have
not treated have died within few DAYS of
incubation with all the symptoms of
injected disease. Two hundred days
in the life of a rabbit would repre-
sent several years in the existence
of men But are not content
with analogies. We want facts scientific
ally demonstrated beyond all possibility of
| controversion. On that account we have
taken the psecation of injecting the maxi
mum amount of bacIlli, injecting it further
more into the veins of the ear, whence it is
certain to at once enter into the system.
lay particular stress upon this fact. Each of
our NEGOTIATIONS in this series Of expert
| mentS was sufficient to kill not one, but half
| dozen animals. Having succeeded IN
keeping those rabbits which we treated
after incubation alive for periods
ranging from 1876 to 230 days, while
rabbits not treated died twenty-three days
after incubation, we have proved the value
of our treatment in so far as rabbits are
concerned. We shall shortly experiment
with monkeys and if those tests succeed
then we shall feel justified in experimenting
on human beings. Our experiments have
had yet another obiect-that of determin-
| ing whether vaccination can be used as
| preventive against tuberculosis. In other
| words, by vaccination we can render the
subject refractory TO disease. That this can
| be done we have proved al ways in respect
to rabbits. Thus you see we have at least
advanced stage toward both the preven-
| ton and cure Of tuberculosis.
with reference TO Prof Koch's expert
ments," continued Dr.. Graueler, who is vet
young man. but who speaks with all the
| restraint of most gray headed and least
enthusiastic savants, 81 may say that my
opinion is that his experiments have not
been made on the same lines as ours The
fnct of his tests having been made with
Guinea pigs proves this pretty coucluslvely,
and SO much the better, for there is never
too much u good things. Two cures for
consumption arc better than one