The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-04-12
WALDSTElN'S CURE.
The Remarkable Discovery
of a Consumption Spe-
cific by a New York
Doctor:
RESULT OF A YEARS HOLIDAY
Pilocarpine May Serve to Ex-
tirpate Lupus, Cancer and
tuberculosis,
RESULT OF A YEARS HOLIDAY

WASHINGTON, April II, 1S95.-The IN
ferest aroused by the publication in
United Press dispatches of the discovery
in Berlin by DR.. Louis Wa1dstein of a
cure for consumption and cancer has
caused the Department of State to make
public the full text of the official re-
port from Consul General DeKay at Ber-
lin, which has just been received. It is
as follows:-
''The coming medical congress at
Munich is likely to give no little attention
to discovery made by DR.. Louis Wald-
stein of New York, which is announced
this week in the "Berliner Klinische
Wochenschrtft,' the most serious and
trustworthy medical weekly in Germany
The congress will have much to say about
Loffler and Behring Heilserum for the
cure of diphtheria, and as DR.. Wald-
STEMS discovery in a certain sense COM
pletes the Heilseuum, acting favorably
on patients whom the serum does not
cure the new idea of the American can
hardly fail to be noticed
II have thought that such discovery
even if it only cured the obscure and
hitherto 4ncurable disease of the skin
called lupus, ought to be known at once
in America, where 1t may save Gives and
shorten much aff1fction.
During his earlier studies in New York,
Dr. Waddstein (born in that city, and the
possessor of a large practice there) had
his attention called ito Pilocarpine an
extracts usually sold in crystals, from the
jaborandi, Brazilian plant (pilocarpus
pennatifolius). This well known alka-
loid acts powerfully on the salivary and
the sweat glands.
"At the same time DR.. W'aidstein was
trying to discover the effects OF the stim-
ulation of various glands. like the thy
roid, lymphatic, ETC., on the entire sys-
tenn. He made the discovery that pilo-
carpine exercised the most surprising
effects on the lynphatic glands and the
entire system to which we ascribe the
elaboration of the lymph, or white cor
puscles of the blood.
Having given himself a years holi-
day, he passed some time at the hos
pital at Nancy, France, where many con-
sumptives and other patients affected
with forms of tuberculosis were watched
by him Then. coming to- Berlin. he
passed the last four months at the '.Ur-
BAN and enjoyed all that hospitals gen
erous welcome to serious foreign stu
dents.
1T was there tina he proved to him
self the truth of his reasoning on the
relations of the lymphatic system to
diseases like lupus as we'll as tuberculosis
in other forms. to dtphtheria and other
diseases still.
THE key of his discovery is this:-By
successive injections of minute doses of
pIlocarpfne in the veins he arrives at a
gradual stimulation of the lympbaItic
system. That system increases the white.
corpuscles in the blood, which corpuscles /.
as is well established, through Metchni-s
koff, of the Pasiteur Institute of Paris;
Hankin, of Cambridge and Buchner, of
Munieh-in some way not generally /
agreed upon, do certainly overcome and
cause to be harmless those poisonous
particles in the blood (which produce dis
ease. Metchnizoff thinks that the mi-
crobes which destroy the red corpuScles ,
of the blood are swallowed and englobed
alive by the white corpuscIes. Hankin
and Buchner think that the white corpu-
scles merely absorb the dead microbes,
and therefore call the white corpuscles
''alexins,' or protective particles. DIR.
Waldstein goes to the fountain whence
those white corpuScles spring, and tries
to en1iven it's action and productiveness,
When, through disease, these health CIV
ing particles have become too few TO
keep the blood in proper order.
DIR. Waldstein has not had time Ito
watch the effect of his discovery inyre-4
lation to tuberculosis of the lungs but
the reasoning that led him to what he
has already achieved seems equally good
for the cure of this terrible scourge or
mankind.
He strongly advised physicians to try
pi1ocarpine In the early stages of CON
sumption and indeed, in all diseases
where the lymphatc system ds involved,
because of its stimulating action upon
the organs in that system and the con-
sequent production of white corpuscles.
He has satisfied himself that pilocarpine,
when injected in the veins forms a trust
worthy test for the presence of tuber-
cufar disease in man and in animals,
giving the physician the strongest pos
sible certainty in the diagnosis of OBJ
Soure cases.
"a striking instance of the truth of
his reasoning is the case of a man "a
lupus on the back of his right hand for
22 years and was thought incurable. Re
lief was immediate after the first in
lection and the hand is almost healed.
This cure has created a sensation among
medical men, and some hope that the
road to the cure of cancer also has been
entered
'sDr. Louis Waldstein is well known
physician of New Yorw, born in that
city some foTty-two wears ago. His
father was for many years a leading
optician, and his younger brother. Is
DR.. Charles Wal6stein. the archaeolog-
at the University of Cambridge, Eng