The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-12-12
rLEcTRrcrTY ron CONSUMPTION.
Crotte's Treatment Being Tested in
New York Hospital.

IIom the new ] DIX JpuIHHis
Crotle's cure for tuberculosis has invad-
ed st. LulSe's Hospital There in de-
tached building that the unlnitiated may
not observe what is going on, Crotte's
electric machine whirrs. It's static currents
pass through sponges into the lungs Of
the patients. Crotte and his assistant
make notes. Investigations. analyses. But
they do not talk to outsiders about what
they are doing.
1t Is a secret. Nine physicians are watch
ing Crotte. his assistant and their work.
The Board of Health receives from time
to time tcketed walls that are evidences
OF the cures progress. Long charts. the
printed lin of which are In French, are
piled up on the De SKIS of the nine phys!-
clans that are wat hing. They are jury.
They are TO tell officially, II Crottes cure
f. effective
He has no doubt Of II. Tall, strong ac-
live, Joyful, he infuscs nto others the con-
iidence that is intense Ia him. lie says:
"Pasteur and Koch have discovered the
bacilu Of tuberculosis. They were the
: builders. / am the conqueror. / destroy the
baclln.
by static currents OF electricity / con-
vey TO the organism Of persons afflicted
with diseased lungs formlc adlehyde that
kills the microbes of disease In the lungs.
The efficiency of formic a'dehyee has been
acknowledged by the most learned physi-
clans and chemists.
My method of transmitting this formic
aldehyde and other antiseptic remedies by
static electric currents is an Invaluable
discovery. Ii proves itself at every exper-
iment / am proving 10 the world, day
by day, that in a period of one to three
months, my method Of treatment cures
every case of tuberculosis in the first de-
gree.
1t cures in two to three months. three
fourths Of the cases OF tuberculosis IN the
second degree. In the third degree, thirty
persons in a hundred arei cured. / cannot
replace a lung / cannot restore a life.
but can aid nature. / have commun cat
ed to the Academy of Sciences Of France
the results OF my experiments. / shan
make report soon to the Academy of
Medicine here"
lie made no other reply TO questions
about his work at ST. Luke's. The super
intendent, the house physician the visit
ing physicians there had q similar reti-
cence. They would not speak of Crotle's
work Each one sad, separately, that the
hospitals experiments were not reported
until after they were finished. But several
admitted that method Of cure for tuber.
cuiosis must have an inherent merit TO be
tried at 81. Luke's.
George M. Bailey said:
II have implicit faith in FranciSque
Crottes work. My capital is invested in
the laboratories, the materials that he
needs, the expenses that he incurs. He is
a benefactor. But there is reas n for the
secrecy at St. Luke's Hospital that every
one who knows how noisy charlaniry Is
wiz appreciate. St Luke's Hospital not
Crotte or any one Of his friends, is 10 be
the. first to announce that the cure for
tuberculosis has been found at last"
Michael c. Murphy, presd dent of Health
Board, said:
Under The present administration the
Beard of Health investigates corrects, i'm
proves conditions of the public health. The
board gives its approval to nothing l
hope that the cure for tuberculosis may
be found. Whoever proves that & Is found
Il the worlds best friend"