St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-08-30
THE CURE OF CONSUMPTION.
An Italian Doctor Reports Fair
Success With His Serum.

An Italian Doctor Reports Fair
Success With His Serum.
The London correspondent of the
New York Sun says, in letter, that
medical authorities on the continent
have again been aroused to keen in
terest in the report of further expert
ments for the cure of consumption
by method resembling in some re-
spects that Of DR.. Koch. The
investigator this time is Prof.
Marrag liano, of the University
of Genoa, who read a paper on the
subject this week to the medical
congress at Bordeaux, giving the
results OF two years experience. He
uses serum, and says his success de-
ponds on the manner in which his
vaccination Of animals is made. He
says of the serum:
II have drawn it from dogs, donkeys
and horses. 1 have set aside cultures
with living bacilli. I have employed
exclusively strong toxical substances
extracted from very virulent cultures
of human tuberculosis and capable of
killing guinea pigs in two or three
days. No one, to my knowledge, has
ever employed for the vaccination of
animals any substance possessing such
great toxical power. 1 have applied
| the treatment in eighty-three cases
presenting all forms of pulmonary
tuberculosis. These are the conclu-
sions 1 have been able to form:
"Consumptive patients presenting
but small centers of tuberculosis.
without or with few active microbe
centers, derive real benefit. I treated
forty-fiVe such patients, and all those
who followed the treatment methodic-
ally and completely may be considered
cured. There are twenty-nine Of them
OF the other sixteen, of whom sew
eral We're Terrific, their condition i'm
proved considerably, but none of them
followed the treatment. Some are
still under treatment. Others, believ-
ing themselves cured, insisted on
abandoning the treatment
Secondly, broncho-pneumonic tu-
berculosis patients with extended CEN
tiers of disease, without fever or even
with fever, but with few microbe col
onies, may be entirely relieved of fever
and success obtained in certain cases.
This fact leaves hope IF cure by per-
SCNOiiiiS Tie treatment. fOurI66n,
some Of them feverish patients. have
been treated. The condition of all has
improved. In some cases the improve
ment is very noteworthy. One who
had suffered from persistent fever for
several months is returning to a nor
NAL condition. None of them, how
ever, has completed the treatment.
Others, being in their own opinion
cured. have abandoned it.
Thirdly, the broncho-pneumonic
patients extended and numerous mi
crobe colonies derive but slight i'm
provement from treatment I have
treated nine. The condition of two
improved for a. short time They had
suffered from fever for several
months, and this was abated. One
gained four and four others two kflo-
grams in weight. Believing them
selves out of danger, they left the hos
pital- One died after year 1t is not
known what has become OF the other.
Great Improvement took place in his
condition. In the case of third pa
tient the fever disappeared. He gained
kilogram in weight and is still I'M
der treatment. The condition of four
remained stationary; two died OF
the total eighty-three patients treated
in all stages, sixty-one derived real
benefit"