New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-04-13
MP WALDSTEJN'S DISCOVERY
u,,,r v,T1,RE OF HIS NEW CURE FOR CON
SUMPTION AND CANCER.

NE WOULD DESTROY DISEASE GERMS BY SIlMo-
,,rrov OF THE EMPHATIC sYsTEM-TEXr
ov THE REPORT SENT TO WASHINGTON
,,-oebinpton. April 1.-THE interest aroused oy
49, ruhlcatlon in United Press dispatches OF
,ho discovery in Berlin by DR.. Louis Waldsteih
. q cure for consumption and cancer has caused
tho DEPARTMENT Of State to make public the iuii
,oxt Of the official report from Consul-Generdi
ma KAY at Berlin. which has just been received
1t Is as follows
Tho coming Medical Congress az Munich is AKey
- give no little attention TO discovery hlaue y!
nv Louis Waldste!n. Of New-York' when IS an
,rcel this week in the "Berner kinische Noci-
thrift, " the most serious and trustworthy neui-
cal weekly in Germany. The Congress VIII nave
,ob 70 saw about Lofler and Hehring Heilserun'
Gov the cure of dphtheria. and as Or Naios'v'I
a,scovprv in certain sense completes the Ie''-
sorun acting favorably on patients whom 'he
serI,n does not cure the new idea OF 'he Ah'ei'''
can hardly fail TO be noticed.
have thought that such discovery. even IL IL
or,, cured the obscure and hitherto incuraDle d's-
case Of the skin called lupus. ought TO be KNOW,
.. once in America, where it may save HV'S an"
shorten much aiiliction. w.,
n,,rrg his earlier studies in New-York. Dr. Wald-
stein born H. that city. anu the possessoi Va
large practice there had his attention caleu ~
II,carolne an extract usually sold in crystals
DION, the iaborandi. a Brazilian plant P1iocarPuS
r,,,if,,i,,s, This well-known akaloid acts
powerfully on the savary and the sweat s'd""s'
4, the same time Dr. Wadsten was trying 10
discover the effects of the stimulation OF various
Glands like the thyroid, Emphatic, etc. on the
81 system He made the discovery that pho
oornlne exercised the most surprising ehec's OH 'e
lvu'phatic glands and the entire system 10 "nio"
ns ascribe the elaboration Of the lymph or whe
corpuscles Of the blood.
Having given himself years holiday. he passed.
some time at the hospital at Nancy France where
many consumptives and other patients aHecleu
Nth forms of tuberculosis were watched by MN.
Then coming 10 Berlin ah nd dpn SsSyd All that hos
ntaTs generous WELCOME to serious iorus" SUI
dfa'S xas there that he proved himself the truth
~ his reasoning on the relations OF the Nmpha1c
OF .ls 50 diseases like lupus. as we'll tubercu-
iosis IN other forms, 10 Gphtheria ana o'heE us
s@SSS I et ~ his discovery is this: BY successive
ne NC of minute doses Of plocarpine in the veins
HHyeaCyrves at a sradual stimulation of the lynphauc
~ That system Increases the white cofpusIIeS
~ blooi which coYplsc,es-aS Is well est3 bshed
.lr ~, Netchnikof Of the Pasteur institute OF
np iJiSs Rankin of Cambridge and Buchner OF Ma
iai1' IN so,e way not generally agreed upon 40
naTr.ajnv overcome and cause TO be harmless th1se
nosonols particles in the blood which produce ms
pse Netchnkoff thinks that the microbes Whlch
destroy the red corpuses or the Rood 6r are s%il-
iisrkin and Buchner think that the white corpus
ce merely absorb the dead microbes ana theTe,4re
yysT,iclcs Dr Waldsein goes to the fountain whence
cOrDusCleS spring ana lrles 10 eiiINtIl
s sc,ion and productiveneSs. when. through as
case these health-GvinG particles have become 100
tsw "a keep the blood in proper order =, -,
DR. Walis,ein has not had time 70 watcn me
emsct Of his discovery in relation 10 tuberculosls ol
tbe lungs. but the reasoning that LED him 10 VIVA
~ has already achieved seems equally S0od LOT
ne cure of this terrible scourge Of mankind.
He strongly advises physicians II try pllocarplhe
&, ~ early stages OF consumption. and inieed n
~ diseases where the ymphatic system is involved
Sacsnee az its stimulating action upon the organs IN
tbat system and the consequent production OF VINE
cn~rnsoles He has satisfied himself that piloc3r-
80 rben Injected in the veins. forms trustworthy
lest for the presence Of tubercular disease N man
eni IN animals giving the physician the strCnsos'
TosSbe certainty in the diagnosis OF obscure cases
striking Instance Of the truth of his reasoning
Is the case OF a man twenty-four years Cd n Hcf-
liner who has had lupus on the back OF ms rlEht
hand for twenty-five years and was thought incur
able. r., -, g.. ,.,to..to., o-,1
the hand is almost healed. This cure has created
o sensation among medical men and some hope tnat
tha road 10 the cure o. cancer also has been err
tered ,-,.,o
Dr. Louis Waldstein is well-knovn ply scian u
New-York, born I'm that city some fortN-t"O years
ago His father was for many years lea ing Opt
can and his Younger brother IS Or Charles Wa,d-
stein The ar haeOlOGs.. recently appointed Sade
professor at the University Of Cambridge. England