The times., 1899-09-25
RARE CURE FOR INSANITY.
Recovery of N Patient by Injections
of Cont Lymph.

CHICAGO. H., Sept. 24.-After having
been pronounced "hopelessly insane" by
expert alienists, and so marked on the rec
crds of Kankakee Asylum, Irwin Fuller
Bush. young man prominent in the social
and business life CT Joliet, is today at his
home, with his mental faculties fully re-
stored, keen and active both in mind and
body, and ready to resume the management
of his extensive business affairs.
Recovery from the form of insanity from
which he suffered is rare, and in this in
stance the interest is increased by reason
OF the novelty of the treatment employed
MI Bush was cured by injections of goats
lymph, a remedy first suggested by DR..
B. F. Roberts, country physician in
Missouri, who is now on his way to Europe,
where he has been invited TO tell the medi-
cal sayants CT the old country about the
new form of treatment
Mr. Bushs family is one of the best
known in Joliet. He is about thirty years
of age, married, and has two children. Mr..
Bush was a robust and healthy man up to
two years ago. when he was seized with
peculiar attacks that produced a choking
sensation and were accompanied by tenn
porary fits of alteration. So far as the
physicians could ascertain, there were no
predisposing causes of functional or
ccngenital nature These attacks at first
did not interfere with his capacity to at
tend to business affairs, but after a while
they became more frequent and violent,
and the physicians who were called feared
he would choke to death during the parox-
ysns. Each attack weakened the patients
nervous system, his mind became affected,
and at last it was apparent that he was
insane He grew worse, and finally had
TO abandon ali business cares.
The doctors diagnosed Mr.. Bush's maIa-
dy as pa-anoia, a form of insanity from
which there is little hope of relief. From
early in January until March / Mr.. Bush
was kept at home under the care of a
special attendant, but on March Z, he V as
committed TO Kankakee Asylum. At the
asylum the case attracted special atten-
tion because of its unusual nature Bush's
mind seemed TO be perfect blank. He had
none of the cunning or trickery of the or
binary insane patient; he was unable TO
think, or plan, or execute.
DR. Joseph r. Hawley. of this city, who
had been experimenting with goats lymph,
as obtained by the Roberts process, sug-
gested TO DR.. LoweEthal, of the asylum,
that the treatment be tried on Bush.
D
to Chicago on June 10. He was placed un-
der treatment at 1907 Prairie Avenue,
where there is school Of instruction
for physicians using the lymph.
At first he was given four injections OF
lymph every day, the fluid being injected
hypcdermically in the arms ana hips.
Gradually these injections were reduced
in number TO one a week. Last Tuesday,
about ninety days after Bush was brought
h. a
TO his home in Joliet in the full possession
OF his mental faculties. At first the treat
ment had an apparently bad effect on Mr..
Bush, and his friends were disheartened.
Then came slow change for the better,
and he began 10 improve steadily. From
a wreck Of 119 pounds he gained in weight
rapidly, until now he turns the scales at
IA pounds. He looks well and healthy,
talks nationally. and persons who know
him intimately say he is now mentally
sound When seen Friday at his home
Mr. Bush said;
u cannot tell Just when my reason came
back TO me- I know that I have been ow-
ing better for some weeks. 1t was last
Monday or Tuesday that the climax came
which lifted me entirely out of my insan-
ity. 1t is certainly most remarkable
cure. / have taken up my business affairs
where / was compelled TO drop them, and
find everything clear to me. l am not yet
as strong physically as l would like 10 be,
but am gaining right along"
Dr. Hawley, speaking OF the case said:
Specialists had pronounced him con
I frrned paranoiac and incurabie. He was
so marked on the records at Kankakee
4 Today he is mentally sound. l take nc
/ special credit to myself; neither do the
other gentlemen who were interested with
me in the experiment. Neither is there
any secret about the treatment. We used
goats lymph in the doses and manner de-
scribed.
Briefly. my theory is this: INSANITY is
a result OF q degenerated condition o. tht
4 brain cells. The goats lymph contains
healthy cells. BY injecting this lymph iztC
/ the human system these healthy cells are
/ carried 10 the seat OF disease where they
tone I'D the afflicted brain cells and ass.s
in restoring them to a normal condition.
This is not the explanation / would
make to q committee OF medical scientists
but il viii probably be better undeTstoo,
| by laygnen than would more technica
account Let me add that this goats
lymph is accomplishing highly satisfactor!
results in many forms of disease.
1T is the substance for which Prof
Koch. Dr. Brown -Sequard DIR. ". A. Ham
mond. Pasteur and others have been seek
ing for years. Certainly it is a compli
! ment to the genius of Missouri countr.
doctor for that is what DR.. Roberts is
when the scientists of Europe have TO turl
! to him for instruction on a subject o
which they have made life study
YELLOW JACK IN HAVANA.