Morning journal and courier., 1891-03-11
SWAN HADLYmPH, roo.

S " AN I1A D IL AVOs
 Laying Claim to Koch's Discovery
 What a Noted Chicago Physician
 Asserts-Says the Berlin Scientists Work is Ante-Dated Twenty-Three
 Years.
 At the present time when the attention of the world is still turned to new meth ods or remedies for the cure of that dread disease and scourge of the human race consumption-andt to the telegraphic &C., | counts of the alternating failures and suc- cesses of the same, the following from the Chicago Herald does not fail to possess l general interest, while it also has local | interest, the pr. Swan spoken of being of 50 high repute and personally known to many of our readers, not few of our most respected citizens and ladies of our most cultured families having been under | the medical care of this noted physician and he having been frequently called to New Haven for consultation in critical or | special cases by some of our most eminent and skillful homeopathic physicians dur l ing the last few years. The article in 1 question was penned by the Dr. Gentry of 1 whom it speaks, and tells of the Swan l treatment of consumption and of what Dr. | Gentry claims ante dates the Koch theory by at least twenty-three years.
 From Columbus to Koch no great dis covery was ever made but that the claims of the discoverer were afterward disputed. | And there seems to be no exception to the | rule in the case of Professor Koch. AL | ready several claimants to the honor of the | first treatment of consumption by apply | ing the product of the disease for remedy | have arisen in various parts of the world; but the latest claimant is Dr. Samuel Swan ! of New York, who says he practically antedated the Koch theory by at least twenty-three years In later years no great discovery has been made in medical science without an imme- | diate dispute between the two great schools-allopathy and homeopathy-as to which the honor of the discovery should be accredited. Already the medical jour- nals of both schools are weighted with charges and counter charges in relation to the Koch lymph. Dr. William D. Gentry of 182 State street is a honeopa- thist who is an enthusiastic follower of Dr. Swans theory and claims to have effected several cures of consumption by applying the remedies of that physician A reporter for the Herald called on Dr. Gentry yesterday to secure a full exposi- tion of his theory and practice with the Swan remedies
 CONSUMPTION CAN BE CURED.
 Consumption can be cured," was the first startling statement made by Dr. | Gentry ''I think I can prove that it is a curable disease. The question is, How can the disease be cureda" The remedy is the application to the human system of the | poison that is produced by that which causes phthisis. Jenner introduced vacci- nation as 8 prophylactic for smallpox. He took the lymph found in the vesicles or sores on the udder of kine and intro duced it into the skin of an individual After this introduction of lymph that came from cowpox, which is similar to small pox, there set up suppurative process, body where the kine-pox virus had been introduced into the system. Inoculation then took place. The suppurative process of that vesicle produced poison which was absorbed into the circulation of tho blood and the individual had kine-pox If such person was afterward exposed to smallpox he would only have varioloid. | Professor Pasteur claims to have made | the discovery that the introduction | into the human system of the poi | son of hydrophvbia, when the poison l will prevent one from having that horrible disease. This is the same principle pre- cisely as that conceived and first intro | duced by Jenner in smallpox. Pasteur at tenuates the poison of hydrophobia by in- troducing the poison from the dog having the rabbies into a rabbit or guinea pig, then taking the poison iron the rabbit | and introducing it into another rabbit, ,and | so on until six or eight rabbits have been l T1oo Sc ciently for introduction into the human system.
 | AND PROFESSOR KOCH COMES WITH CURE.
 "Now comes Professor Koch, assuming the same principle in the treatment of con- sumption," continued Dr. Gentry. "He claims to have discovered the bacilli which produces tuberculosis All honor is due him for that discovery But on the other hand, seventy-eight years ago Dr. Samuel Hahnemann promulgated the theory that | similia similibus curaturn-like cures like. | This principle has been known by leading homeopathic physicians, who have fol lowed it in practice throughout the civil ized world They claim that not only smallpox, but eczema, scrofula, cancer, lupus, leprosy and tuberculosis are pro duced bo specific poison. But before Dr. Koch made the discovery of the bacilli il was not known that theso diseases were produced by a living bacili or microbe Long before any proper means of attenua, tion were discovered, it was believed that the specific poisons which produced these diseases could be reduced in power so that there would be no danger in inoculatine law of like cures like" such attenuation ] nr1 aff
 Not until 1868 was it ever announced to the medical profession that there was specific poison which caused diphtheria scarlet, yellow, malarial and typhus fe- vers. This was announced by Dr. Samue Swan of 13 West Thirty eighth street New
 York city. He claimed that the product
 of the disease contained the poison whicl caused the disease. On account of the ap
 parent unreasonableness and the radica ideas of the man in regard to his theory i
 was accepted only by few in the profes
 maintained and announced, in 1876, tha
 the morbiic product of disease will cur, the disease which produced them if give1 in the highest potency. That is, by atten uation the poison can be separated iron the product by potentization.
 l 'I had seen the announcement made il an unostents tious way" said Dr. Gentry but 1t struc> me as being unreasonable and paid little attention to it. But il 1880 read in the Organon, published il Liverpool England, an account from Dr J. A. Biesler of Rochester, N. Y., that h, had patient, girl of six years, who wal suffering from tubercular meningitis which had baff1ed the skill of number o1 physicians. Not knowing what to do him
 self he had written to Dr. Swan, and thu latter sent him quantity of tuberculin
 um, which he gave the patient, and com
 plete cure was effected in two months Since then have seen accounts occasion
 ally of cures of tuberculosis with this rem edy. One cure was by Dr. Braidman, on, by Dr. H. H. Tinker, one by Dr. Charle
 A. Tinker, one by Dr. H. Won Musits ant three by Dr. Swan, the originator of tn, remedy.
 "Now, tuberculinum is an attenuatet product of the disease phthisis tuberculo
 sis. The attenuation of the product of tn
 diseases I have mentioned is attained i,
 this way: One particle of the product O any disease is thoroughly mixed witt
 ninety-nine parts of the pure sugar O
 milk. This is the first attenuation. On, part of this mixture is triturated or mixed
 with ninety-nine parts of the sugar of mill
 again. Then one part of this is agai1 mixed with ninety-nine parts of sugar O.