West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1899-12-21
\ GREAT DISCOVERY.
Norgantown Physician Discovers Ac.
cidentallv a Cure for Consumption.
From tho New Dominion.

From the New Dominion.
A Morgantown physician. Dr Page
Gibbons, is the accidental discover
OF the cure for consumption even in it's
advanced stages
tie has demonstrated its entire sue.
cess in one case that has fallen under
his observation and further tests on
animals have shown that il viii cure
the disease even when il has advanced
far toward death.
The case in which thus discovery
was made was that OF Mrs. johnson.
who lives several miles from Morgan
town. A year and half ago she was
in the last stages OF consumption and
had all of the symptoms. She had
wasted away until she weighed only
9S pounds. To-day she tips the scales
ut 1875 and has regaincd all OF her old
time yigor. There are absolutely no
traces of the disease present.
When Mrs. johnson was nearly dead
and only few months separated her
from the silent majority she was on
the porch at home in an invallds chair.
She was left alone for n few moments
and getting thirsty slipped out OF her
chair and started to crawl into the
OF stairs.
In going over the door sill her face
close to the sill she was struck full in
the face 10y coppcrhead which with It's
mate was running itself on the door.
step. 1t was a full grown reptile and
full OF the ugly yiciousness which has
made the tribe SO greatly feared.
DR. Gibbons was summoned and little
hopes were entertained OF the recovery
OF the victim, who was SO nearly dead
even before threatened by the dread
reptile. He came about four hours
after the accident occurred. Mrs.
Johnson was terribly swollen aud she
was not expected To live more than an
hour or two. He gave her two injec-
tions OF permangenate OF potash which
is the sovereign remedy OF India In
ca ses of bites from the Cobra. Other
doses of the medicine were ndminist-
cred internally. Strange To SAY the
woman recovered from the bite and
later began to show sign OF improve.
mcnt 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 i36 POUNDS
while the last trace OF the rayapes OF
the disease have disappeared. What
makes the recovery so much more re.
inarkable is the fact that several mem
bers OF the family have already died Of
the same disease.
The discovery has aroused very great
interest among the medical fraternity
and hundreds Of letters have reached
here inquiring about the matter and
experiments have been set on foot 20
ascertain what virtue IL any lies in the
injection OF the permanPenate of
potash. IL has been found that guinea
pigs and other small ami nal, even when
greatly infected from the Introduction
OF the turberclc bacili recover on the
administration Of tho same remedy
that was used so success fully in the
case Of Mrs. Johnson.
with the results being so certain in
the cases Of advanced stages OF the
disease IL cannot help but be an infnl.
liblc remedy when used in the primary
stages Of the attacks and it will be
recognized eventually MS the greatest
discovery OF the age.