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special 10 the REGISTER.
MORGANTOWN, w. Va, November
ia Morgantown physician. DR..
Page A. Gibbons, is the accidental dis
coverer of cure for consumption even
in its last stages. He has demonstrated
its entire success in one case that has
fallen under his observation, and fur
Their tests on animals have shown that
it will cure the disease even when it
has advanced far toward death.
The case in which this discovery was
made was that of Mrs. johnson, who
lives several miles from Morgantown.
A year and a half ago she was in the
last stages of consumption and had ALI
Of the symptoms She had wasted
away until she weighed only 80 pounds.
To-day she tips the scales at 1856. and
has regained all of her old time vigor.
There are absolutely no traces OF the
disease present.
When Mrs. johnson was nearly dead
and only a few months separated her
from the silent majority, she was on
the porch at home in an invalid's chair.
She was left alone for few moments.
and getting thirsty slipped out of her
chair and started to crawl into the
spring house, which was down fiight
OF stairs.
In going over the door sill, her face
close to the sill, and was struck full in
the face by a copperhead which, with
it's mate, was summing itself on the
doorstep. 1t was full grown reptile
and was full of the ugly viciousness
which has made the tribe so greatly
feared.
DIR. Gibbons was summoned, but little
hope was entertained OF the recovery
of the victim, who was so nearly dead
from the ravages of the tuberculosis
even before threatened by the dread
reptile. He came about four hours
after the accident occurred. Mrs.
Johnson was terribly swollen and she
was not expected to live more than an
hour or two. He gave her two injec-
lions OF permanganate Of potash, which
Is the sovereign remedy In India I'm
cases Of bitss from the cobra. Other
doses of the medicine were admins
tered internally. Strange to say the
woman recovered from the bites and
later began to show signs of improve
ment from the consumption from which
she had been suffering.
Recently she had become so strong
that the woman who formerly could
scarcely stand, was able to walk into
town, and she now weighs 1875 pounds.
while the last trace OF the ravages Of
the disease have disappeared. What
makes the recovery so much more re-
markabie Is the fact that several MEM
bers OF the family have already died
with the attack OF the same disease.
The discovery has aroused very
great interest among the medical fra
ternity and hundreds of letters have
reached here inqniring about the matter
and experiments have been set on foot
to ascertain what virtue. II any, lies
In the injection Of the permangenate of
potash. II has been found that guinea
pigs and other small animals, even
when greatly infected from the intro
duction OF the tubercle bacilli, recover
on the administration OF the same REM
edy that was used so successfully in
the case OF Mrs. johnson.
With the results being 30 certain in
the cases OF advanced stages OF tho
disease, it cannot help but be an infal-
Iible remedy when used In the primary
stages Of the attacks and 1t will be
recognized eventually as the great dis
eoveTy OF the age.