The herald., 1897-01-24
THEREMEDY FOUND
{" Improved Tuberculin Will Cure Con.
sumption
AN INTERESTING INTERVIEW
DR.. c. II. whitman Of the Koch Hedicsi Insti'
tute Talks Upon the Methods and
Success Of His Discovery

During all the ages in which the sci
ence of medicine has been an accepted
fact among the nations OF the world,
there has never been period IN Whlch
those who were masters or the art Oh
healing have not devoted the most pa
tient study. intelligent investigation ana
highest application of professional skill
to the one particular disease commonly
known as consumption. For centuries
this peculiar malady baffled every at
tempt at diagnosis, and stubbornly re-
fused to yield to every form of treat
ment brought to bear upon 1T.
Only as far back as 1883 one OF the
highest medical authorities in this coun-
try closed an exhaustive discussion OF
this dread disease with the following
emphatic statement: There are no
known specific remedies for the cure of
consumption. 1t is of the most import
ant consideration, however, that the
measures of treatment now generally
used, while they do not effect a cure,
promote a better tolerance of the dis
ease, prolonging life and contributing
to the comfort of the patient while life
continues"
There have been many earnest prac-
titioners, however. who not only enter
tained the positive belief that consump
tion could be cured, but who have bent
every energy and pursued every theory
would annihliate the germs which were
finally acknowledged to be the direct
cause of the disease.
1t has been reserved for the closing
years of this century to produce such
valuable remedy and to the city of
Los Angeles to be the place where the
skepticism of the past has been proven
utterly false, and the investigation of
ages finally crowned with complete sue
cess. For here, within the last year,
consumption has been completely cured,
by resident physician, and today there
are many others rapidly recovering
from pronounced phthisis by the use of
a remedy now known as Improved Tu-
berculin.'
Desiring to give its readers the bene-
fit of information of such great value,
a representative of The Herald was re-
Gently detailed to call on DR.. Charles
H. Whitman, the physician who has
brought this wonderful specific to such
perfection, and to ascertain to what eX-
tent it was being used here.
DR.. Whitman was found at the Koch
Medical Institute, an institution he
founded at 529 South Broadway about
one year ago. for the special treatment
of those suffering from tubercular trou-
bles.
While busily engaged at the time with
professional duties, he courteously con-
sented to an interview upon being ac-
quainIted with the object of the visit.
When asked how long he had been en-
gagged in perfecting the remedy which it
was understood he was now using with
such marked success in the treatment
and cure of consumption DR.. Whitman
replied that he had given the best por-
ton of his professional career to the at
| tainment of this particular object. For
nearly fourteen years, or ever since Prof.
| Aab a. l,lz
that consumption was caused by micro
scopical germs, I have worked on his
theory, even though nearly all of the
me edical profession either secuted the
| idea or abandoned their research after
| brief investigation. Never, for a day,
hardly, have doubted but what the dis
I covery was of the greatest benefit to
suffering humanity, and that a specific
could be prepared upon scientific prin-
ciples which would finally prove a de-
| structive agent of the primal cause of
| the disease. Following out this theory,
l have by the most diigent application
perfected a remdy which L am pleased
| to call Improved Tuberculin" For
several months past I have administered
| this trea tment to consumptive patients,
who have come to the institute here, and
their grateful acknowledgment of
fully restored health convinces me that
| 1t will cure consumption If used before
| the disease has reached that stage when
a cure is impossible"
| Upon being asked to give some idea of
the method of examina ton and treat
| ment practiced at the institute, DIR.
Whitman replied that it would give him
| great pleasure to do so.
Daily l am called upon to tell some
| poor sufferer what hopes there are in his
| particular case for effectng cure" said
| the doctor, 'fOr it must not be taken for
| granted that 1 Will consent to treat every
case, and pretend to assure a cure; /
! Will not do that in any case, for NO one
! but a quack who is after money and not
an honorable professional reputation.
will guarantee any such result, l make
a minute microscopical examination Of
the sputa, which in most instances if
| tuberculosis be present will reveal the
presence of the bacili; also a most rigid
inspection of the physical condition Of
the patient in order to locate the extent
! of the damage to the lung tissue. If l
think from the result of these eXamina
tions that there is good prospect of ef-
fecting a cure, / most naturally advise
a thorough course of treatment; but IL
/ ascertain that the case is beyond the
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