The herald., 1896-08-23
TO CONSUMPTIVES
A Few Words About RENE.
dies
CONSUMPTION CAN BE CURED
A Treatment Which Is Working Won.
ders, Saving Lives and Curing
Consumption

10 consumption durable? This ques-
tion is one which has been asked thou
sands Of times and never satisfactorily
answered until the present time.
The best medical writers have always
agreed heretofore that the "prognosis
OF tubercular consumption Is always un-
favorable" They have always agreed.
too. that catarrh is liable to run into
bronchitis and bronchitis into consump-
ton, SO that people afflicted with catarrh
and bronchitis are dangerously near
consumption and need to seek efficient
treatment early to prevent 1t.
To all afflicted with any lung trouble
or weakness the question of cvrability
Is one Of the utmost Importance. Once
convinced that recovery may be expect
ed, courage returns, vitality increases
and the chances of cure are improved.
For centuries physicians have been
trying to heal diseases Of the lungs
through the stomach, filling it with
drugs, poisoning the blood by the ad-
ministration of all sorts of sedative and
deleterious remedies, and attempting
to renew and build up the system by
overtaxing the stomach and other or
gans of digestion and assimilation, neg
lecting the fact that the wasting pro-
cesses of disease were still uninterrupt-
ed. The result of all such laborS has
been the universal conclusion that con-
sumption is incurable.
A new and remarkable discovery,
however, has been made, and remedy
and method of treatment perfected and
applied which is revolutionizing all
hitherto accepted theories and conclu-
sions, and now 1t is well known and alb
sclutely demonstrated that consumption
can be cured positively, and that, too,
without trip to Germany or Japan or
any other distant country for treatment,
Vtcrh hAr- syr
Koch Medical Institute, ,529 South Broad
way, where Drs. Ballard and Whitman
have by their wonderful discoveries been
successful in curing consumption and
in saving the lives of those supposed to
be doomed and given up as incurable by
physicians boasting of regulations Sec
ond to none in the rofession.
The scientific discoveries made by
Prof Koch in Berlin have established
the fact that consumption whether re-
sulting from a sudden outbreak of the
disease without any apparent cause, or
from hereditary tendencies, from extern
sion Of catarrh and bronchitis, as Sc
quel OF la grippe or pneumonia, or in
fact from whatever cause it may have
been developed, it Is nevertheless due
to the presence and rapid development
OF microscopic germs called tubercle
bacilli 1t Is also an established scien-
tific fact that when these bacilli are
present there is no cure for the disease,
consumption, unless they are destroyed,
and further that they never disappear
Of themselves nor upon any of the ordi-
nary and usual methods Of treatment
by the administration of remedies by the
stomach or by inhalation, but they
must be destroyed by the presence in
the blood of some substance destructive
to their particular germ life.
Numerous remedies have been origi-
mated and tried, such as the injection
into the blood of serums, lymphs and
chemicals, all with the hope Of destroy
ing the bacilli.
Prof. Koch discovered product from
the bacilli themselves which he found
to be destructive to the life of the germ,
but on trial it wa salso found to be in
furious to the patient as well, and many
years of experimenting and study have
been necessary to produce from the
product which he named "tuberculin,"
remedy which would be safe for the
patient and at the same time effective
in destroying the germs.
The elimination Of all this expert
menting has at last been reached and a
preparation called improved tubercu-
lin Is now prepared by Drs. Ballard and
Whitman and used under their own su-
pervision at the Koch Medical Insti-
sute, which is absolutely safe and HARM
less to the patient. and at the same time
does positively cure consumption.
The cure Of consumption is shown
by the removal eff the symptoms of the
disease and the repair Of the injuries
caused by it in the lungs and to the gen.
eral health. Knowing, as we now do,
that consumption results from the pres
'ence Of bacilli in the lungs which are
found by the microscope in the sputa,
further proof Of the cure of the disease
is obtained when the microscopic ex-
animation demonstrates the entire alb
sence of the bacilli. 1t Is then known that
the cause has been removed and 1t is
also apparent that nature has produced
the repairs necessary to make the cures
complete.
1t is now unnecessary that over one
third Of all the deaths in our midst
should be caused by this most dreadful
of all diseases, consumption. Any one
by applying in time can be cured. If
apparently afflicted by catarrh or bron-
chitis, by seeking advice in time the
dreadful consumption may be prevented
and suffering and expense saved. Con-
sultation free. The Koch Medical In
stitute, No. 529 South Broadway, Los
Angeles. Branch office. Masonic temple,
Pasadena.