Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-06-28
ANOTHER NGW CURE
It Is to Be Used in Connection With
Change Of Climate
DISCOVERED IN GERMANY
A Long seriesof Experiments with Sodium
Cinnamate in Curing Consumption Con-
Quoted by a Colorado Physician
Some Marvellous Cures.

Df. Alfred MdlH, ol IUloIduo, IcCeit-
ly published an article on "The Treat
ment of Tuberculosis by Sodium Gina
mate" which has aroused considerable
discussion. DR.. Mann championed the
cure, which was discovered by DR.. AL
bert Landerer, of Stuttgart, Germany.
He gave detailed reports of fifteen cases
in which he had employed it. Eight of
them We're classed as severe cases, and
in these the result has been a lasting
cure in two. marked improvement in
three, and doubtful effects in the re-
naming three. In some of the cases UNI
satisfactory observations were obtained,
were obliged to return to their homes
in the east or to localities which We're
u~nfavorable to the cure of the disease
DR.. Mann gave it as his opinion that the
results in five of the cases would have
been much better had the patients been
free of care and worry.
DR.. Mann prefaced his paper with a
mild attack upon other systems of
treatment for tuberculosis which have
hitherto been employed, notably the
Koch treatment. He argued against the
anti-toxin theory, which has been sue
cessfully employed in the treatment of
| other diseases, for the eas that, he
said, an attack of tuberculosis did not
| confer immunity upon the subject, but
! rather predisposed him to further at
lacks. For this reason, he said, the
usual a%nti-toxin treatment was not val
liable in this disease.
The curative agent which he advo-
Gated has been thoroughly tested by DR..
Landerer in his sanitarium at Krahen-
bad, in the Black Forest, and some 10
table cures have been effected, even in
cases where the patient was apparently
in a hopeless condition. The sodium Gin
namate is injected simultaneously into
the system at short intervals, and
causes no inconvenience to the patient
in any way. After giving the details of
the cases in which he had used this
preparation, DR.. Mann CAV all outline
of the treatment as follows:
HISTORY OF THE EXPERIMENT.
"The long series of experiments and
method that Landerer uses at present
were begun Immediately after the dis
| covery of the tubercle bacillus by Koch
in 1882. For years the method was neg
lected, but of late it has been COM
handing more attention. because Of the
unusually good results it has yielded.
The consideration which forme the
point of departure in his reasoning was
the following: So long as the changes
in the tissues caused by an infective
agent or it's products do not progress
beyond the stages of infiammatory n.y.
peraemia or serious emulation, complete
| restitution to the normal condition Is
possible. More severe processes, which
result in an actual destruction of tissue.
necrosis, are not capable of being fol-
loved by a return to normal, and here
tllG most favorable conclusion Is the
formation of a scar.
1.-THE LESSONS of tuberculosis in the
vast majority of cases with which we
have to deal belong to the latter cate
CORY, and the object of the treatment
is to convert tuberculosis processes into
| solid scars, Now, Landerer says, 1t Is
well known that tuberculosis areas
have comparatively little tendency to
become SCARED up. In the vast major
ity of cases they show a tendency to be
progressive, to form chronic Assesses,
| fisulous alterations, cavities, etc. He
| attributes this characteristic to the
very moderate inflammatory reaction
in and about tuberculous areas. and
| points for confirmation to the marked
| scarcity of blood vessels in tuberculous
| areas. There is too little blood present,
| and hence too little material for proc
| esses of repair, for the formation Of the
| scar. This gives us the problem-to ar
! tincially provoke a more active infiam-
nation about the areas.
BELIEVES IN THE TREATMENT.
"The treatment of lupus and slow
healing ulcers by caustics or ignipunc-
ture Is based on exactly the same prin-
ciple. Landerer now considered the
fact that internal areas which are mac
cessible from without IA be reached by
means of the blood current, and further
remembered that foreign particles In
iected into the blood are taken up by
the white corpuscles and deposited by
preference in regions where an infiam-
nation or injury is present. Without