The San Francisco call., 1897-11-01
OXYTUBERCULIN
FOR THE POOR
Great Philanthropic Scheme
Planned by Rich
Men.
Cbicagos s Department of Health
Makes Eager Inquiry About
the Discovery.
Dr.. Rirschfelder's Remedy Is Being
Tested in Hospitals of Paris
and Brussels.

Dr. Hirschfelder's o1ytuberculin is, in
the not very distant future, to be given
free to victims of consumption all over
the United States who may be too poor to
buy it.
This is a remarkable scheme OF benevo-
lence in the line of giving medical aid
to suffering humanity. Its only likeness is
the action of the State Board of health ol
California, and some similar boards, in Sc.
curing fo- tribution, free if necessary,
supplies of anti-toxin, the great con-
queror of diptheria.
The details of this philanthropic plan
are not ready to give out and they are
not even worked out, but it is known that
men of large means, who have acquired
full faith in the efficacy OF Oxytuberculin
have decided to see that there shall be no
victim OF the dread tuberculosis so poor
that he may not have any salvation that
there may be for him in the San Francisco
discovery about which the whole world is
talking and about which doctors are
clashing, as doctors generally do.
DR.. l.. Z. Lane, president OF Cooper
Medical College and founder OF the Lane
Hospital, is one of the active plan ners of
this interesting enterprise. He yesterday
con firmed the report, put said that 1t
would be premature to now give any de-
tailed information.
IAN enterprise OF that sort is planned
and will undoubtedly be carried out he
said, "but it is too early to say anything
about it yet or even when it will be done.
Il have complete faith in oxytuberculin,
especially if used in the first and second
stages of the disease | have sent several
patients to DR.. Hirschtelder to be treated
by him, and have watched the cases until
cured. l have patient in my office now
that | am going to send to him. Did you
ever see the tubercle bacilli under mi
croscopeP l have some in here from the
sputum of this patient.
An assistant had been exploring a
freshly prepared slide in the process of
diagnosing the case, and look through
the powerful microscope at once showed a
little colony of the bacilli punched to-
gether in the field of vision, and colored
red by the staining fluid, which they alone
would absorb 1t was positive proof of
tuberculosis in the victim who is to join
the patients into whose backs DR.. Hirsch-
fielder is daily injecting o1ytuberculin.
The department of health Of Chicago,
through Acting Commissioner of Health
+. w. Reilly, has made an eager inquiry
here about oyxtuberculin, asking for q
full report on it and how it may be OBJ
tanned and at what prices. DIR. Reilly
writes that from 200 to 25OO people die in
Chicago annually of consumption, and
that sit is the duty of this department to
investigate any method which promises,
prima ia Gle, to reduce the mortality in the
degree that antitoxin has reduced our
diphtheria mortality"
Since the publication week ago of tn g
latest established results, prism &
sixteen cured aud many much i'm
proved. the interest in oXytuberculin has
become widespread. 1t is much discussed
in Eastern papers, and flood of inquiries
has begun to arrive addressed to various
physicians here as we'll as to DR.. Hirsch-
fielder.
DR.. Hirschfelder maintains a dignified
sienc ce in the face OF the ridicule and OPP
position that come from some other doc
tors, and his friends make little reply,
saying that the hostility comes from men
who have never investigated it at all, that
it was to be expected, and that time will
prove its worth or its failure
THE charge that Dr. Hirschfelder is
making it commercial fake is the most
absurd of all, )" said one of the faculty of
Cooper Medical College yesterday. He
has In repeated publications given every
detail of its preparation to the medical
world, and while with the success he ha s
attained with it he could easily have a
rich monopoly of oxytuberculin, he has
made it a gift TO humanity, for he has
given every detail of its preparation and
use. DR.. Koch has never revealed all the
details OF the manufacture of his ubercu-
lin, and it is sold through agencies OF a
monopoly at So for about a teaspoonful.
Oxytuberculln is now being thoroughly
tested in Paris, Brussels and elsewhere,
and reports from there will be unbiased" D"