The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-05-15
ON ANTI-TOXINE.
The Physicians Discuss Tt and "Fads''
at Their State Meeting.


At the meeting Of the state Medical
society the paper Of DR.. S. G. Stewart
of Topeka on The Blood Serum
Therapy" produced considerable dis
cussiOn.
For the benefit of the mystifed read
er who talks only every day English,
it is explained that this title means
the science of curing by blood serum
Blood serum is in plain words, poisons
that are believed to counteract the dis
ease poison in the system of the pa
tent- The Brown-Sequard elixir was
a blood serum So is antl-tOXine-
Dr. Stewart is a firm believer in anti
toXine and said so enthusiastically in
his paper.
1t was that that started the discus
DR. Wilhoit said. eve doctors are
too much followers of fashion. We are
always straying off after strange gods,
forgetting the time tried and well test
ed old remedies that never fail, in an
endeavOr to find something new
4 remember when we had the blue
glass craze when the laity and the
profession actually were led to believe
that if people sat in the light of the sun
strained through blue-cOIored glass it
would cure all manner Of HIS Then
we had tuberculine and it is only re-
Gently that the press and the public
and the profession have dropped anti
tOEine to filter the X ray through the
the human body in the belief that it
viii cure all the ills that flesh is heir
to-
why, 7 verify believe that if the
newspapers would appear tomorrow
and announce that the light from the
fixed stars or the breath of a green
bellows would cure disease half the
profession would be trying it on their
patients the very next day to the ex-
cluslOn of common sense treatment
i want to say that that was good
paper" said DR.. Uhl of OsaWatOmie, Il
am a believer in antitoxine."
DR.. Wainwright of Kansas City: Il
wish to say that I am in hearty SYM
pathy with what DIR. Wilhoit has said.
[ think we dc too much straying.
was i'm st. Louis recently and talked
with DIR. Pappan himself on the sub
Ject of antttOXine and he told me that
he had not vet found exactly what he
hoped to find and I took from the tone
of his voice and the look on his face
that he was losing confidence in the
medicine himself
Dr. McCandless Of EOlton: ct be
ieve in making haste slowly We do
too much straying around. AS Dr. VIII
holt said we have too many fads-
once knew a man who claimed to have
discovered sure cure for cOnsump-
ton and made a speciality of treating
1T with nothing but old rye whisky. OF
course not one of his cases got well"
In closing the discussion DR. Stewart
said. ANY man who says that anti
toxine is a fad does not know what he
is talking about Tt is the result of
centuries Of earnest thought and work.
I believe in it, Speakers on this paper
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cation of new cures in the profession.
We need men who viii investigate new
things improvements come only with
venture and experiment. Progressive
physicians certainly investigate every
new discovery or alleged discovery be-
fore they let it drop. When it has
proved useless Of course it is tried no
longer. We owe it to the race to do
our best in Investigating all that has
the appearance of an Improvement
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