Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-12-27
He Cures Epilepsy by Means
Of incubation.
SOME MARVELLOUS CASES
His Experiments Were the Direct Out
come of Watching the Effect OF
the Pasteus's Theory.

Forty third street tonight, on "A New
Agent III the Treatment OF Epilepsy"
Ia 1t ne tells the results of u scientific
treatment which he has applied To 3
class OF patients for the tils, time IN
tnis country or elsewhere. The treat
ment Is IN line with that which has ex-
cited interest IN scientific medical cir
cles IN France. and Is a step III advance
OF ,ns method employed in a some
what similar treatment IN Paris. The
material used - prepared from the
vital organs OF the sheep, after 1t has
undergone certain treatment in the
laboratory of the Pasteur institute.
The infectious were made daily in
each side OF the patient just above the
hip hone. DR.. Gibier said that some
two years. ago an account was pub
lished in the French medical journals
OF an epileptic patient treated at the
Pssteur institute IN Paris for the bite of
mad dog, who was cured of his cpl
lepsy by the antI-rabic injections.
More recently other accounts of the
cure OF the epldemics by injections Of
the rabic virus had been publlshed and
public interest had been aroused In the
new treatment.
His Observatious
Before an opportunity was offered to
competent critics to examine the
remedy, or the statement of patients
who were supposed TO be cured, and
also without waiting for the test of
time a. t. the reliability of the treat
ment, it was widely accepted and more
than one hypothesis of Its mode of ac-
ton was proposed. DIR. Gibier said that
an observation at least was established
and that was that some patients had
their seizures checked at least tenn
porarlly after the injections of the
rablc virus. After some remarks upon
the cure and the normal functions o.
the nervous system restored, DR.. Glber
said that he had been enabled, by the
courtesy OF Charles l.. Dana, visiting
physician at Bellevue hoapltai, to make
number Of observations extending
over SIX months of the effect of anti
rabic lnoculations upon persons afilict-
Ell with epilepsy.
he said tnat one Of the publications
furnished him with an observation
which seemed to show tha: as far As
cure for epilepsy is concerned, We can
not expect much from the Pasteur In
Jections.
The patient, man Of 80 years, an
epllepuc frOn infancy, had been treat
ed with antl-rabIc injections tor Is
days in the intensive form and not
only did the epileptic convulsions con-
tinue but they increased In number.
The Fluid.
DR.. G!bier said he was not surprised
at this failure, inasmuch as ne lad
learned Indirectly that the cause of the
untlmely announcement of the cure
epilepsy, by the anti-rabic NEGOTIATIONS,
was due to the fact that his disease had
been temporarily stopped during and
alter the inoculatIons IN two Young
epileptics who had been bitten by mad
dogs and treated at the Pasteur iusti-
tute.
Gibler ascertalned that in the injec-
ton given at the Pasteur institute, by
which Temporary relief seemed to have
been afforded to some epileptic pa
tents, the rablc-v.rus was not injected
alone, but IN ASSOCIATION with large
amount of nervous substance and there
fore ii occurred to him that if any
benefit had been derived from these
Injections ID might be attributed to the
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Consequently he determined to test
the treatment with the injection of ex-
tract grey nervous substance which ne
called nervina. The fluid WAS pre-
pared according 10 the strlctest rules of
bacterloIOgy, and in order to avoid fatal
accidents. 1t was perfectly aceptic.
The doctor saId tnst the idea of the
new treatment was derived from the
method proposed by DR.. Brown
Sequard, who thinks that fluids ex-
trac:cd from young and neatly organs
can give 10 those who are abnormal
and senlle, the attributes OF youth and
health.
His Treatment
pr. Glhier then gave an account If
the results he had obtained with the
use of his nervIne in cases of ep lepsv.
Ia reference TO the case OF Young
Freedman, who belongs TO a family
of an epileptic history, DR.. Gibier saws:
Before beng subjected TO this treat
ment no was .most continually IN q
state of eplspuc vertigo. losing con.
sClousness mumentariy several times
daily. He had a persistent headacne
and A very severe seizure at least once
weekly. HIS memory and his mental
90 sers were decreasing steadily aud m.
face had a very ldiOtic expression. lie
nsi heen subjected 20 various forms of
treatment without much Improvement.
ndcr the influence If injections al
wTnistered i've times weekly and with
nv any other feuedv his condition ial-
proved remarkably. The severe attacks
dinn she'd IN uumber and he rrcov.
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