The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1900-10-19
Chapman 6 Briggs, Agts.
RAW MEAT FOR TUBERCULOSIS
Experiments by "A Partisan Who As
sertH His BELIEF In It's cura-
tive Power.

VIII science succeed in finding a
means OF preventing and of curing
tuberculosis? Researches have been
made OF 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. II
Is necessary to say ito this hour"
for attempts made with the most
varied descriptions of serums have till
now been fruitless. Is o~perotherapy
that Is TO say, the treatment which
consists in inoculating with animal
j~uices-about to be more fortunate?
Without desiring to forecast the flu
ture, but judging from the only ex-
periments which NJ. Richet, of Paris,
has just communicated to the Biolo-
gical society n may reply in the
affirmative, assuming 1t 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 it's 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 a lot of "a dogs t~uberculized
nine months previously, only two that
were fed on raw meat survive. They
are large and in perfect health,
whereas the other 22 have long since
succumbed.
Out of another lot of dogs also in
oculated with tuberculosis products,
one only, fed extensively with raw
meat, survived and continued in good
condition, whereas all the rest died
within five months at the outside, In
q 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 prophylactic
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
by the latest experiments re.
by M. Richet, where the ami
prepared by alimentation 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 t~uberculized by N. Richet,
one received seven grams of meat per
kilogram of the animals weight; an
other ~ 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. 1t may therefore
be assumed that the average amount
raw meat required to preserve a
dog inoculated with tuberculosis Is
from n to II grams per day and
per kilogram.
As M. Richet showed in a previous
communication, raw meat acts by its
juice and not by its pulp. In fact, If
one places a piece of raw meat, COM
pressed to extract the juice, beneath
4 tap of running water for "a hours
and then presses It, one obtains q
Juice which is absolutely inactive.
To administer raw meat with which
{ is proposed to treat tuberculous pa
tents it must not be chopped or
it must be scraped with a
sharp knife; the pulp must be put
nto the cold broth and thus diluted.
IN this way one obtains a kind of soup
'ver which one pours tepid broth or
hin soup and v the yolks Of n
n two eggs.
In view of the results obtained by
u. Richet, the preventive and curative
treatment Of tuberculosis BY raw