The San Francisco call., 1896-11-19
In a Few Generations He Says
the Disease Can Be Wiped
Out.
HIS METHOD OF OPERATION.
The Government Should Establish
Institutions for Free Examina.
tion and Treatment.

DR.. Joseph O. Hirschfelder, who re-
Gently discovered new method of treat
ing consumption and in last August pub
lished for the benefit of the medical pro-
iession the results of his experiments to-
gether with full description of his treat
ment, made the assertion yesterday that
in a very few generations tuberculosis
could be exterminated.
The doctor went further. He declared
that he was absolutely convinced of the
correctness of his theory. Upon this con-
vction he based his statement that con-
sumption can be completely wiped out.
DR.. Hirschfelder's method has been put
to the test and found effectual in checking
the disease in incipient stages rather than
il killing the germs outright, thereby
effectlng a thorough and permanent cure.
So much is claimed for the method by the
doctor after a long and careful appiica-
ton. Since the dreadful disease can thus
be cured if taken in time the inference is
that by prompt and intelligent action on
the part Of physicians and people the
ravages of oonsu mption can be checked.
The next siep in this steady progress
would be the detection and cure of con-
sum ption i'm mediately it shows itself, and
then in time its complete eradication.
This interesting method is no longer a
secret. 1t was made public in August and
is now in the hands of the physicians, for
them to do with it as they deem fit. In
the East it has attracted considerable at
tention aud indeed is already adopted by
many physicians. Regarding the treat
ment itself or any subsequent expert
ments DR.. Hirschfelder would not speak
as he believes that the profession is first
tlnA 60 -tne1 l,.
ever. he has settled convictions about its
application, which he discussed Yesterday
with considerable enthusiasm. He would
like to see the Government take up the
matter and introduce measures whe reby
tests or examinations would be made of
all people afflicted with coughs or sus-
pected with having consump ption, the end
in view being 10 eradicate the disease. So
the question has resolved itself almost
into one of social science for the physical
betterment of the race.
Through the investigations of Koch
and his demonstration of the presence Of
bacillus of tuberculosis in all cases of that
disease" said the doctor, sit becomes an
easy matter to detect the disease in its
early stages.
institutions should be organized by
the Government for the free examination
of the sputum of every individual affected
with cough or suspected to be tubercular
in any direction. individuals VINO would
be found to be afflicted with tuberculosis
In this manner could then be supplied by
the Government gratis with this remedy,
and in this way in a very few generations
tuberculosis would be exterminated.
"I am absolutely convinced OF the cor
rectness of this theory that the anti
toxines are simply oxidized toxines; and
the experiments have proved the certainty
and facility with which they can be made
in the laboratory. The process is simply
an imitation of the method that nature
pursues to get rid of the poison, for the
iirst thing that she does when a bacterial
germ or its products are introduced into
the body is to introduce an increased oxi-
dation, which shows itself to US in the