Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1900-09-21
RAW NEAT FOR TUBERCULOSIS
serts His Belief I'm Its Cura-
tive Power.


Will science succeed in finding a
means of preventing. and of curing
tuberculosis? Researches have been
made on all sides, yet to this hour
the problem does not appear near so
luton, says a writer in the European
edition of the New York Herald. It
is necessary to say ito this hour"
for attempts made with the most
varied descriptions of serums have till
now been fruitless. Is operotherapy
that is to say, the treatment which
consists in inoculating with animal
juices-about to be more fortunate?
Without desiring to forecast the fu-
ture, but judging from the only ex-
periments which M. Richet, of Paris,
has just communicated to the Biolo-
gical society one may reply in the
affirmative, assuming it to be legit-
innate to form conclusions as to man
from the dog. But let us not antic-
ipate events; while maintaining a
just reserve let us wait until the
clinic has pronounced its opinion.
It results from the observations
made by this Paris professor that,
in the first place, treatment by cooked
meat causes the death of dogs more
rapidly than any other treatment.
On the contrary, dogs fed upon raw
meat continue in good health and get
fat.
Out of lot of "a dogs tuberculized
nine months previously, only two that
were fed on raw meat survive. They
are large and in perfect health,
whereas the other % have long since
succumbed-
Out of another lot of dogs also in
oculated with tuberculosis products,
one only, fed extensively with raw
condition, whereas all the rest died
within five months at the outside, in
a state of extreme cachexy.
The juice of raw meat acts in the
same manner as raw meat. The ami
mails that were tuberculized and
treated with the juice keep in good
health; others treated in any other
manner all die within periods ranging
from one to five months at the out
side.
If the curative properties of raw
| meat are evident, the prophy1actic
part played by it is not less so. In
fact, animals nourished with the juice
of raw meat in large quantities and
subsequently inoculated, appear re-
fractory to tuberculosis, as has been
proved by the latest experiments re-
lated by NJ. Richet, where the ami
| mails prepared by Authorization with
raw flesh continue perfectly well,
| while others are either dead or dying.
| But what is the dose of raw meat
| that should be given to dogs in order
| to preserve them from tuberculosis
OF the dogs tubercplized by NJ. Richet,
one received seven grams of meat per
| kilogram of the animals weight; an
| other IL grams, a third 80 grams,
and a fourth and last Ga grams per
kilogram of its weight per day. The
first died. but the three others are in
very good health. It may therefore
be assumed that the average amount
of raw meat required to preserve a
dog inoculated with tuberculosis is
from one to IL grams per day and
per kilogram.
| AS M. Richet showed in a previous
communication, raw meat acts by its
juice and not by it's pulp. In fact, if
one places piece of raw meat, COM
pressed to extract the juice, beneath
a tap of running water for "a hours
and then presses it, one obtains a
juice which is absolutely inactive.
To administer raw meat with which
it is proposed to treat tuberculous pa
| TENTS it must not be chopped or
rasped; it must be scraped with a
sharp knife; the pulp must be put
into the cold broth and thus diluted.
| In this way one obtains kind of soup
over which one pours .tepid broth OF
thin soup and even the yolks of one
or two eggs.
In view of the results obtained by
M. Richet, the preventive and curative
| treatment of tuberculosis by raw
meat is to be recommended as the
most effective means at our disposal
at this moment for combating this
terrible malady.
Il Curious German Wedding Custom.
In all German settlements in the
west a curious wedding custom pre-
walls, which is said to have been
transplanted from Hanover. When a
young couple is to be married the
elder brother of the bride, or, if she
has no brother. some other male
member of the family, takes his place,
starts out a few days before the we'd
ding on horseback and distributes
the invitations. He is called the