The Newark journal., 1903-01-16
Stop. Think. These Are Facts!
POISON VS. CONSUMPTION.
Remarkable Results from Injection of
 Formic Afdehyde.

Is successful war being Waged on consumption by poison? The sayants have been experimenting lately in an entirely new direction in their search for a cure for the disease, and with such results as to raise the highest hopes. The tubereular bacill are be- ing poisoned in the lungs by an in- genious injection of a solution of formic aIdehyde, and in many cases already, it is stated, absolute cures have been effected. Patients who were once regarded as eonsumptiyes of the most hopeless class have, fol lowing the treatment, been accepted by life insurance companies as first class lives
 The inventor of thenew treatment, according to the London Mail, is Dr. Robert Mcguire, theconsumptiye spe- eialist and physician tothe Brompton hospital. Some timea ago Dr. Mcguire determined to attack the bacilli in a new way The antisepties hitherto used had 10 be so mild as not to in- iure the stomach, where they under went such further diluti0n as 10 be practically worthless. So with hyPo- dermie injections; while pricking the lungs was risky and not to be too often repeated. Dr Mcguire there upon decided on injection into the veins, and after lengthy and anxious search he selected f6fmie aidebyde as the injection. The hole in the punctwed vein near the elbow is so small that 1t voluntarily heals Up without treatment after each opera ton.
 The solution of one in 10000 of formic aldehyde is fatal to the tubcr- eular bacilh If, then, such a Solu- lion can be introduced into the blood vessels and the lungs sluiced with it, the cure is apparent accomplished. But would the heart stand the poison? Il was found that an original solu- ton of one in 2.000, which WAS re- duced by assimilation to one in 1G0,- GOO on reaching the right rentriele, could be freely employed. while soiu- tions of one in t.000 and one in sG0 have been used with perfect safety. The lungs are imnreonated for the space of about D heart beats, and in the great majority of experiments the effect has been pretty much what was expected The solution is a sure gcrmicjGc. and the =bacilli have been exterminated. The consumption spe- cialists, remembering previous pre- mature conclusions, have 8 properre- luctance to calling anything a con sumption cure until its efficacy is be- yond all doubt. Thsre is, however, hardly any other word than "cure9 to describe some of the results which have been achieved In many cases, after only about six weeks or two months treatment al the most. such cavities as had been formed in the lungs had healed mp. and every trace of the bacilli had disappeared. That is to say, such cure had been ef- feeted that if hepatient then submit  ted himself to another medical man ignorant of what had taken place the latter would indubitabIy declare that the patient had never had consump- ton al all Take an instance, one of the most remarkable imaginable. Some time ago a young man, a bank clerk, came for Dr. Maguire's treat ment. Hewas in one of the last stages of consumption. In less than two months from that date there was not a trace of consumption aboa. him, and, most convincing tez of all, he was accepted by an iasufaRce office IS first-class life!
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