The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1894-05-30
A New Consumption Cure.

The French newspapers are de-
voting columns to the new consump.
tion cure discovered by DR.. de Back
er.
About month ago Maud Howe El-
liot in letter from Rome said that
the cure consisted of simultaneous
use of a mixture produced by the
| fermentation of beer and honey. Du
ring a year of experiment the doctor
cured 80 per cent. of his patients in
| the first stage of the disease and 65
per cent of those in the second stage.
Inyalids in the last stage are not prom
ised a cure.
There is no secrecy about the rem
| edy, and De Backer gives his formula to
physicians who are freely usingit The
New Orleans Times Democrat says of
it:
"Diyested, as far as possible, of all
technicalities, and expressed, as well
as we understand it. in a few simple
words, the "methode mycodermique,
as it's author calls it, consists of the
injection into consumptive patient 8
system Of live beer yeast, known
henceforth as ''backerine. y The
"backerinc," to keep it pure from all
bacterial impurities which might taint
it during the operation Of injection,
is kept in syphon with a needle at-
tachment, the needle being used for
pricking the skin over the vein into
which the ferment is to be injected,
and the ferment then passing in pret-
| ty much as the liquid poison does
around wasp's sting.
"We have called the yeast live
ferment;;" and, Of course, as soon as
it is injected into vein, it begins to
"work," producing, to begin with,
around the place that has been prick
ed, an infanled swelling that looks
like an incipient abscess. The swell
ing is but temporary local irritation.
It is in the blood that the ferment
produces the chemical change which
is alleged to mean cure. What the
precise change is that the backerine
brings aboutin the component parts Of
the blood, would involve too much
technicality for US to attempt to cx-
plain; we must merely content our
selves with observing that the back
crime appears to entertain moral an
tipathy to the tubercle- tainted cor
puscles of the blood. 1t fastens upon
the tuberculous bacteria in those cor
puscles and, after few days of hard
struggling with them, during which
time the patient is aware, from ugly
sensations in his Intervals, thata bat
tie royal is being waged in his system,
it kills them off, without doing harm,
even in the smallest degree, to any of
the components Of the blood that are
in healthy condition.
The backerine kills the bacteria
when they have not been long enough
in the lalgs to nearly destroy them.
If the cure fails with a patient it hurts
nobody, as it is entirely harmless. DR..
Degoix, well-known Paris physician,
in public card says:
"We, who have followed with the
greatest interest DR.. Backer's expert
ments and the first applications of his
method to consumptive subjects, have
promptly submitted a number of our
patients to innoculations with back
crime and some of them. who appar-
emily doomed to an carly death are
thanking us now for having aided in
restoring them to health.
Very little has been said in this
country about this alleged discovery,
but it is probable that our medical men
will soon take hold of it and make a
| rcnOrt.