Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-06-21
SECOND LECTURE ON MALARIA
Does Quinine Cure MaIaria2-Is There
~ Any Cure for Chronic Cases?.
AGUE CURES, NEW AND OLD DISCUSSED
New Facts Of Interest to Malaria SUI
ferers

treatment of malaria in all of its forms
which did not stop to prove, although
what l said was very much at variance TO
what is commonly taught on the subject.
1t is the purpose of this lecture TO set
forth more fully my reasons for claiming
that the remedy Pe-ru-na is of more
value in this disease than any or all rem
edies heretofore used.
need only to refer every one to their
own observation in malarial diseases TO
prove that the usual remedies have not,
as a matter of fact, been successful IN
curing them. Go to any malarious sec
ton of the country and you find its
Inhabitants taking regularly enormous
doses of the medicines that are lauded
as cures of these affections, with little or
no effect The various preparations of
cinchona or calissya bark, known as
Quinine, sulphate of cinchona, sweet
quinine and tasteless quinine, are taken
with wonderful persistency, with SEEM
ingly no other effect than to depress the
hearts action, lower the nervous vital
ity, and produce a most pernicious form
of biliOusness.
When travelling through the malarial
districts it is often pitifuI to see the sal
low, hollow-eyed, lisrless, woe-begone
victims, industriouslY swallowing huge
doses of these harmful chemical prepara-
tions, vainly hoping, through them, to
regain their health, but rarely realizing
their hopes. have much to say in ia
vor of cinchona bark in the treatment of
malarious affections, but these peculiar
chemical salts-Quinine, etc.-which are
obtained from ciuchona barks, by add
ing to them poisonous acids, l cannot too
strongly denounce as dangerous drugs,
which will inevitably produce much
worse condition of the system than the
disease for which they are taken. To il
lustrate: Coffee is a very useful and
wholesome stimulant, producing, IN
moderate quantities, the best of results,
| benefcially invigorating the whole sys-
ITEM. But citrateQk caffeine, made by
Vie chemist from cdteee by the addition
Apfsan acid, Is a harn ~ nerve stimulant, y
"a Ach cannot be ta1R any length Of
Nh&without doing lculable har4l
AN; 1 eonsiaer oatS the form5e
oatf3fAl, proper pre- fAFN as ops u
the NJ healthfN ana strss sng
cereals Known, bug "a emist Die to
make a eRtract fEpsE oats known as av-
ena ssti (which eAn only be taken
with dan&e4ko ife hfd certain injury to
health. Exaq8aT INSANE is it with these
called q4ipine Selulnidine, cinohonine
and cinch0p idine They will either of
them invariably bring physical disaster
to any on6Swho continues their use,
while thssit from which they are taken
is an exeellen$ kennedy, which, if used
with culinary Issetion, will do no one
harm,
ButaeYen the Peruvian barks (calisaya
| and efncAAna) do not meet all the re-
| aulrem entSs in the treatment of malaria,
| and gfak EMU Ecom bined with other use
| full adjunct& Cures only a small fraction
of cases. n not denied but that
quinine and okhek salts of cinchona bark
| seemingly cur feyer and ague where
the chills are dAfiRct and the patient
strong, out in the vast majority of
cases they not only fail to cure, but do
| irreparable harm. To permanently
| cure any case of fever and ague a rem
edy must combine two general effects on
! the system. It must increase the powers
| of the system to resist the malsrial
| poison and neutralize or destroy the
| poison Itself. The best that can be SAID
| of cinchona or any of its preparations is
that they stimulate the system tempo
rarIly to resist the action of the malarial
poison. Quinine powerfully arouses
| .
but it is more and more apparent to the
advocates of this remedy that it can not
destroy the poison. 1t is for this reason
that the patient must continue to take
these drugs necessarily or be liable to
have another attack. Unfortunately
| the system soon becomes accustomed
to the stimulating effect, and then they
will utterly fail to protect or in any way
affect the patient, except to terribly
derange the bodily functions and de-
| press the nervous system.
In Pe-ru-na, as given in my formula
now prepared by the Peruns Medicine
company, advantage is taken Of the
beneficial action of Peruvian bark, but
it is upon the peculiar combination with
the other ingredients of this remedy that
1 chiefly rely for the permanent cure OF
any kind of malarious disease. In this
compound the anti-perodie action OF
cinchona is assisted by cedron (anotheI
South American remedy of great value)
so combined with other medicinal iugre-
dents as to destroy effectually the mala-
rial poison which saturates the system
A person taking course of treatment
with Pe-ru-na for any malsrial ahectlor
will find not only that he will be relieved
quicker than with quinine, but that his
system is not deranged in the slightest
particular by the drug. Pe-ru-na gently
stimulates the nervous system TO resist
the malarial pois n, and at the same
time gradually eliminates the poison itseli
from the system, which quinine or SINH
lar preparations can not do. In old easel
of malaria, where the victim has gone
rounds of all kinds of treatment, ha!
hopefully swallowed everything recon-
mended for the chills, and still continues
to have them at the slightest exposure Il
cold, wet or fatigue, Pe-ru-na demon
strates its superiority over all Other
medicines by permanently curing al
such cases.
1t is simply marvellous what variety
of remedies have been used IN the treat
ment of malaria. Nearly every different
individual has separate remedy. II
my early practice tried to keep lis
of all of the medicines that were recon-
mended for malaria, but soon gave NJ
in despair as the confusing list became
too lengthy The great number of cases O.
ma aria that have been treated under M
directions has give me abundant oppor-
tunity TO make thorough test of thi
multitude of malarial cures, and one By
one have been obliged to reject then
as aifhar worthless nr harmful eXaan