The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-11-06
A WONDERFUL SERUM
CURED sIxTY-EIGHT OUT OF EIGHTY
CASES OF CONSUMPTION.
DIR. MnrngIianofs Discovery An Italy
Now BeiBG successfully Experi-
mcnted with I'm New York.
New York Press.

New York Press.
y few weeks hence. II We are 20 believe
Dr. Carlucci. the director OF the Italian
hospital In New York. we may witness the
triumph OF medical science over its ancient
enemy. consumption. The doctor has three
patients whom he is treating with the Mar
agliano serum. DIR. Carlucci is an Italian;
so Is DIR. MaragIiano.
DIR. Cariucci. who was sent to New York
to take charge OF the Italian hospital by
the Italian government. is a graduate of
the University of Naples. and one Of the
greatest OF the younger generation of
Italian medical scientists. DR.. Maragliano
is a professor in the University Of Genoa,
and probably the greatest medical scientist
I'm Italy. which Is saying a great deal. as
in the last ten years Italy has made sucn
strides IN medical science as to place her
the peer OF Germany and France. So far
as money is concerned, he has no ambi-
tions. He is a scientist. pure and simple,
in the employ OF the Italian government,
and whatever he may accomplish is the
property OF the Italian government. Unlike
DIR. Koch. DIR. Maragliano doesn't appear
with a blow Of trumpets, and he doesn't
claim everything.
IL is more than three years ago since the
idea of this serum first occurred TO him. 1t
was a little idea. only a germ OF an idea,
and he said nothing TO anybody about IL.
but Immediately began experimenting. Last
summer ne read papers at the medical con-
crosses OF Bordeaux and London, in which
he made a few modest statements, for he
appears TO be as modest as he Is secretive.
His friends and admirers are more en-
thusiastic over his discovery than ne is
himself. lie asserts nothing. He lays no
claim to having done anything wonderful.
He only says that he is IN possession OF
- a sA.~. II CAlI1-
physicians. AS he gets more facts he will
give them TO the public. When il has been
demonstrated that his serum is an actual
success he will publish his formula
The latest news inclines one 10 the belief
that we may know within the next three or
four weeks the formula of his serum.
HOSPITALS ASK FOR SERUM.
DR.. Carlucci. who is testing the serum in
this country. is thirty years OF age. He
has been here five years. Like DR.. Mar
agiiano. he is modest. He tugged his great
blonde mustache-with the exception of his
blonde hair and mustache he is a typical
Italian of high ~birth-when he was asked
II he thought that the cure for consump-
tion had been discovered, and said that he
hoped so. and then took the trouble to re-
peat several times that he would by no
means commit himself any further.
II hope so. 1 hope So" he declared. AL
though ] have had the serum only q week,
requests nave come to me from hospitals
quantity of serum be sent, in the nope
that it might save the life Of some patient.
j have only enough for my own three
patients. / have sent for more. and the
Professor VIII send II as soon as he can
Above all, IL is perfectly harmless. 1t can
that I may say with certainty that it is
bound to help him.
1T certainly will not cure advanced
stages of consumption When liberation
has well begun / believe that IL is impossi-
bic to make a cure. Nature, when aided
by artificial means. can repair an organ.
but it cannot replace the part OF an organ
which has been eaten away. No doubt the
serum will prolong the life or a person
IN the advanced stages OF
but 1t will not cure him. Please state that
clearly. IL may save US from criticism that
is based on false assumption.
The injections are made on either side
of the thorax every other day. The amount
OF the Injection is one cubic centimeter.
My three cases are all young people. That
Is the horror of consumption. Young peo-
pie are it's victims. Two OF the cases are
women. They have in the
first stage. The other victim is a man. He
IS IN the second stage, his lungs having
injection OF serum I found that the temper
AZURE of all three patients was greatly re-
duced- 1t not only was prompt evidence of
the virllity of the serum, but it co-robor-
eted what Professor Maragliano has said.
CURED So CASES OUT OF so.
AT the end of a week / find that the dis
charge of sputum has been greatly de-
creased and the physical status of the pa
tient greatly Improved. This much 1 can
state positively. AS for the rest, you must
wait. I am assured that the serum does the
patient no harm. and that it positively does
him good. Perhaps within the next two
months 1 can state positively that it has
absolutely cured three cases of consump-
ton.
Professor Maragliano? OF course, he has
put his discovery to a practical test. He has
tested 1t on eighty cases. and sixty,eight
climate has something to do with the cure
OF consumption. i am sure that the serum
would act better on a patient in the Riviera
than here. The climate is so changeable In
New York that the consumptive is clearly
at a disadvantage. There is no doubt that
q coEsumptive in earliest stages may be
cured by a change TO the proper atmos-
phere. But how many can afford a change
TO a milder climate? Aad, certainly. even
II they could afford II. it Is not in more than
benefited.
IF we can cure consumption in the frs.
and second stages in New York with the
serum the great end will nave been ac-
complished. But. mind you. / promise moth
ing Professor Maragliano promises moth
ing more than what he has stated. Wait a
month, Perhaps, two months! Then we
shall know Ii is my own opinion that the
Professor has proved that consumption in
the first and second stages is durable. and
that nothing can ever replace a lung thai
has been destroyed"
The principle of Professor Maragliano's
serum is simple enough. Il consists simply
OF the serum of animals which have proved
refractory 70 the bacillus of consumption
Thus far the Professor has used the morse
TO gain his serum. The formula. which
constitutes the details of his system, Il may
be repeated, he has not yet given to tht
public.
One OF his first experiments was to lno.u
late a Guinea pig with Koch's tuberculine
The pig died A second pig, after .Eoeu-a.
ZION with koch's tuberculine, was inocu,
lated with Professor Maragliano's serum
and II resained normal health.
JEWISH AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE,.