The morning times., 1896-11-15
CURE FOR LEPROSYAT LAST
DR.. CarrasQuilla Has DiscOv-
cred a Restorative Serum.
WORK OF HIS Lifetime
If Not Too Late, Dead Skin
Is Restored and Twisted
Limbs Made New.

New York, Nov. 13.-"Is there any hops
| for me? Can you get me home again."
These are the last words that sound in
the ears of those who visit the leper
colony on North Brother Island, where
those afflicted with leprOsy are Gagged for
life in a living death-with only the Pot
ter's Field beyond.
"GIet me homel CiIet me homer cried
| out the Cinnamon of the colony to visitors
| the Cinnamon who made their escape
| few days ago-and the yOungestOf tine lot, a
bright faced lad, turns away, for even
lie. IN his youth, knows there Is no love fof
| his poor body in this world.
But from the hot lands OF South America,
where leprosy RACES, there ecomes an answer
! To this beSeeching cry for help, an answer
I as unexpected as it is welcome.
| Or. Juan de DOS Carrasquilla, of BogOta,
| Colombia, is finding cure Tor leprosy, that
| may get set the IeperS upon Their feet Ia the
| community and blot off from their horizon
the word "unclean.'' His discovery is thu
result OF a lifetime of hard work.
A NEW SERUM.
The discovery OF DR. CarrasGuIlIa. who
/ is physician of great repute in the cap
| itaI city in which he lives, is in the form
I of serum. 1t is obtained by injecting
| young goats and young horses with leprous
| blood. The kids and colts are thus given
| leprosy, and the disease is left to work
| itself out upon them. AT "A certain stage
I OF the disease a portion of the tainted
matter is distracted from them, and with
this serum lepers are vaccinatcd-
| The process is similar to smallpox
! treatment Serum is abstracted from COWS
| that have had cowpox, and persons are
inoculated with it. The result Is a mild
attack OF smallpox. sore forms, the
| patient becomes feveriSh and eats little.
J In three weeks he is well again he has
| had smallpox without being made Ill in
bed by it, and henceforth he cannot have
| 1t again This ''yaCcInHess hiLI effect
lively.
| a patient vaccinated with leprous serum
| is treated differently by the process of this
| Brazilian doctor The disease of leprosy Is
so horrible, so dreaded, 50 incurable that
NO one in his sound mind would be willing
not even in the cause Of science or hu-
manity, to risk it. Therefore, well per-
sons are not inoculated with it,
When man shows signs Of leprosy, then
the serum from leprUus kids is injected
into him.
The result is a Fastening OF the disease,
For a few days it RACES, and the patient
thinks his end is near. But the bactln ap
pear to wear themselves out They I'VE
violent. fast life. They die And then the
patient begins to recover This has oeel
tbe experience in every case where 1t has
been tried.
THE SYMPTOMS.
In leprosy the first signs are Jumps Upon
the face there Will come little tuTnified
appearances. The leprous bacilh have en-
tered and are at work Hard swellings
come up, the face is disOciOred, the lips he
come sore; other Jumps appear; the facs
gradually loses shape. Nothing can stop
the ravages OF the baciIli. Within q veal
the lips are lumpy and swollen, the nose i.
broad and slIapeless. the checks are puffy
the eyciids are powerless to protect tn
eyes, being misshapen masses of flesh. anC
the countenance wears hideous semhlanc'
to what il formerly was.
The serum, if injected as soon as th'
condition is discovered. appears to kill th'
bacilli. The Jumps disappear, the face set
back its color, and after short. sharp at
tack the patient begins to get we'll Thi
has been done in many cases, and in q re
port made to the New York Academy o
Medicine, the doctor said he had not ye
treated case fruitIcssly. and this IN
country where there are 100 900 new cases
annually. ALBERT CANEis'N-