Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-08-18
DR.. S. A. Mathews of the Chi
cago University Makes a
Wonderful Discovery
LIFE OF A DYING BOY SAVED
The Patient Was in the Last Stages
of the Disease and is Now on the
Road to Complete Recovery--injao.
ton of Solution of SaitS Causes
Desired Results.

Chicago, Aug 1S.-A cure for lock-
jaw. feared from the time of Hippo
crates and regarded by modern physi-
clans as one Of the most deadly of
Diseases has been discovered by DR.. $.
A. Mathews of the University of Chi
cago, and has been successfully used in
treating George Newman, son of j. M.
Newman, 91l6 Exchange avenue, Chi
cago.
DR.. Mathews method of treatment is
| the injection of solution of calcium
and potassium salts. This injection was
given young Newman a week ago while
he was suffering from extremely teta-
nus spasins, and the lad is now declared
TO be well on the way to health.
DR.. Mathews, former student of
Professor Jacquez Loeb, has been seek
ing for months to find a cure for tenta-
Inus-something which would stimulate
the organs of the body sufficiently to
cause them to throw off the poison.
When he had found a solution which
would produce the desired effect in ami
mails, he longed for chance to try it
on q human being. The chance came
when the scientist was called upon to
attempt to cure young Newman after
the doctor had failed.
While the boy was playing with a
bicycle at his home on July Is he in
jured his foot severely. DIR. Alfred
Hartman, 9151 Houston avenue was
4 a
days the patient seemed to be recover
ing.
The symptoms of lockjaw, however,
began to appear on July 20 and the
boy rapidly became worse. Nine of the
best physicians in South Chicago were
called in, but they could do nothing,
and DR.. Newman advised that DR..
Mathews be sent for.
Last Tuesday when the disease had
reached the last stage and the char
acteristic spasms had set in, DR.. Math-
ews made an intravenous injection of
his solution in the lower arm in three
places. Two more injections were made
the following day. Little Improvement
was to be seen, the boys pulse was IA,
and DR.. Mathews went home with little
hope.
Before morning, however, the watch
ers at the bedside began to feel a little
encourag cement, for the tetauus paroX-
Nsms relaxed and the patients pulse
Went down To 104. Another injection
was given last Thursday and none has
been needed since. Young Newman has
continued steadily 10 improve and is
now pronounced practically cured.
The new cure is a diuretic. The prob
lem which DR.. Mathews has worked out
Is to get the proper combination OF salts
to bring about the effect desired. Now
that it has been found, the doctors say
that the same principle can be applies
to the cure of snake bites, blood poison
ing, and other diseases caused by tox-
ms in the body, The tetanus poison is
said to be the most virulent known.
The deadly character of lockiaw is
shown by the statistics of deaths re-
sulting from fourth of July injuries
Twenty persons have died in Chicago
from this cause since Independence day,
while It's are reported to have died in
the United States. A doctor asserted
yesterday that but one or two cases
had been cured in Cook county in the
last five