The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-08-28
HAS He FOUND IT?
DR.. Mcfarland, of Topeka, Tells
Strange Story.
Prairie Dog Exterminat0rT Turn
ed Into Consumption Cure.
RIVAL OF DIR. KOCH.
Experiments on People With
Bronchial Trouble.
Says the Deadly Gas Will Cure
People.

Topeka has a rival of DR.. Koch, who
claims to have discovered a cure fol
CONSUMPTION.
With the same apparatus and some
of the Identical chemicals which he useo
a year ago in discriminating prairie
dogs at the rate of a ten-acre town IN
an hour, DR.. Frederick Mcfarland, of
613 Branner street. this city, is dispens--
ing remedy for consumption ana
bronchial troubles which if not per-
manent has given temporary relief to a
air you breathe'-in fact the freer it is
breathed the more speedy and effective
the relief, according to the doctors tes-
timony. He has been giving trial treat
mentS in the open air at his home.
without any charges, to the two hun
dred or more persons who have gath
cred every evening at his home: have
inhaled the fumes of a gas that i'm
presses the organ of smell as containing
a large quantity of birthstone; have
SMILED and SneeZed until the supply OF
sniff1es and sneezes would seem to have
been exhausted: have gone away manS
of them declaring they have found re-
lief from ills which have stuck to them
for years and years, defying efforts of
physicians and medicines The discov-
cry is too recent to say positively
whether or not permanent cures are
DR.. Mcfarland has been granted a
patent on the discovery. He says it is
composed of five chemicals which he
COIuPOuuuS anu lllcu OuIiAS, D1OWll6 LIE
gas thus generated in the faces of his
patients and allowing them to inhale il
through the mouth and nose. He says
an ounce of the compound costs a dol
lar and will burn sufficient gas to treat
four people all night long. The ma
chine is composed of blacksmith's bel
lows mounted on wheelbarrow. Above
the bellows is a small stove and upon
the fire built inside the chemicals arc
placed and burned. garden hose at
tached to the top conducts the gas out
as it is forced by lever operated by
hand. The sufferers simply sit or stand
about the machine at distance which
can be conveniently reached by the
hose. and as the apparatus is put in
operation the doctor walks about hold
ing the nozzle in their faces until he is
satisfied they have taken a full inspira-
ton of the gas. Then he passes on,
completing the circle, and returning
every few minutes.
1t is interesting to know how the dis
covery of this remedy was made. Last
spring DR.. Mcfarland went to the west
ern part of the state to test the eff
cheney of his prairie dog and gopher
exterminator which he had invented. He
took with him Oscar Robertson, resi-
dent of Meriden who is said to have had
very bad case of catarrh. Robert
son." said Mcfarland, ripped and
swore at me for the first three days:
said the gas from the machine drove
him crazy. The fourth day he tapped
me on the shoulder saying, Doc I be-
lieve the gas has helped my catarrh.'
That set me to thinking. If that chem
ical could give him relief from ca
tarrh, I knew from my experience as
a physician that I could get up some
thing that would be infinitely better So
l went to work with the result that
three weeks ago l gave my first treat
nent here free and have continued them
so in order that I might determine
whether or not there was anything in,
it. must say that have been aston
islled, far beyond my expectations. We
have cured cases that the doctors have
other medicine could cure. You see this
gas is such that as soon as it touches a
spot where there is a microbe, it not
only kills the germ itself, but it has a
healing property as we'll"
DR.. Mcfarland says that he has been
able to Ster1lize water by running the
gas through it and by applying this wa
ter to ulcers he has been able to pro-
duce cures that were astonishing. From
water thus treated, pumped from a 40
foot well in his back ward. and when
first brought up being a milky color,
he has brought down. precipitates that
left the liquid in an absolutely clear
state
DR.. Mcfarland is a medical practition-
er of many years experience. having
formerly been at Holton. Meriden and
Usage City. He says the exteEninator
OF prairie dogs is success; the first at
tempt he ever made he knocked one of
the little fellows at a distance of 1856
feet and in less than a minutes time
He shows number of letters from resi-
dents of the short grass country stating
that his method is effective, and asking
hin more fully to introduce his ma
chine and the chemicals by means of
which il is possible to destroy the pests
He is giving little attention to that
branch, however, devoting all his time
to the Few discovery The sessions are
attended nightly by about so people of
both sexes and nearly all ages.