The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-02-05
MARVELLOUS CURES MADE
OF TUBERCULOSIS CASES
Patients in Last Stages of the
Disease Restored to Health by
Paris Physician.


PARIS, Feb. 4.-Dr. Joseph Marmorek
has cured Observation-Disclosures, established,
unquestionable tuberculosis-by the sub
cutaneous injection of a new serum invent
ed and used by him at his clinic in Paris to
over a hundred patients during the past
year Someone has said that every man is
a crank till his idea succeeds On that no
ton, or the common idea that everything
good sooner or later becomes the food for
argument, this man and his treatment have
been subjected to much unconsidered and
inconsiderate comment, not pronouncedly
either fair or impartial
Austrian Jew by birth, Dr. Marmorek
came to Paris few years since to study
with Pasteur, who was so attracted by him
as to give pointed encouragement to his
eager interest in serum work. He has now
distinguished himself, and is best known for
sound and successful treatment of puer-
peral fever. A slight, tall, fair-haired man,
modest in speech deprecating in manner,
he holds himself to the pursuit of his life
with wistful. persistent enthusiasm which
is the real genius of sincerity.
OF his recent researches towards cure
for tuberculosis, he writes as follows: The
true toxin has hitherto escaped research, as
no way had been discovered to cultivate the
bacillus on a feeding ground. approaching
|
| The present method | adopt for getting the
| toxin in the test tubes is in this way: Young
| bacili are bred 'primitives (as l designated
| them in a communication TO the Interna
| tional Congress of Medicine of 1900 on
nouriShing ground consisting of leucotoxic
| calf'S serum (white corpuscles) and liver
| broth, mixed with glycerine After q certain
| number of changes which the bacillus I'M
| dergoeS on this new feeding ground one is
| highly astonished to find no tuberculine.
| but, on the contrary, another toxic sub
| stance, which kills small animals, and to
| which tuberculous animals are no less sensi-
| tive than healthy ones. One can, at this
mune against subsequent infection. Horses
are also immunised with this filtered, ba-
| cilli-free product containing the toxins, and
! from the blood of the animals is obtained
| the new anti-toxic serum. Experiments
| were first made on tuberculous animals;
| then on human subjects. The bacilli which
| have been treated for a protracted time
| with this leucotoxic-heated serum are
| readily mastered and reabsorbed without
| forming the usual assesses, without cauS-
| ing a general Infection while forming an
| inoculatory instrument against subsequent
| tuberculous infection"
MR.. ZANGWILLS FRIEND.
| However, after some unsuccessful expert
ments Dr. Marmorek, in the spring of last
1 year, began to make active and successful
use Of the serum, steadily continuing treat
| ment on now over a hundred consumptives,
and so far with fine absence of failure.
| Mr.. Israel Zangwill, the author, brought
| the treatment before the notice of a dying
| man in Florence who was suffering from
| intestinal tuberculosis, aggravated by six
| fistulas, the largest over thirteen inches in
| length. Count Hochberg, the patient in
| question, is the brother Of the better known
| Prince Henry of Pless, and had become so
| weak from this trouble that in April last
| he was incapable of standing without the
| greatest effort and pain, was too weak
| either to stretch or to hold up a book while
/ iorlxr
violent cold sweats, shivering fits and re-
| curing fevers. So, after recourse to the
most prominent German specialists and sur
| geons, including the celebrated Dr. Geheim-
| rath Won Observation-Disclosures of BresIau
| who had operated on him for three of the
| worst hstulas, he determined to try the
| new PARTISAN cure, and from Florence to
Paris he was carried. helpless, to his last
| hope.
DR.. Marmorek, considering the case so
| grave and so far advanced, determined to
| administer the serum daily although his
| usual treatment involves break after
every three days infections, and beginning
treatment at once. visited the weak and
sinking man at his own hotel
What followed reads more like a fairy
tale tnan sober fact. On the third day the
violent shivering fits abated; after the tenth
injection Count Hochberg rose and walked
after the thirteenth injection, the skin tax,
ing slight infammatory. appearance, it
was decided that the treatment had been
sufhclent; and two more injections closed
the emergence from the elusive but tena-
cious bacillus into hopeful health. Then
tnose VINO mad treated the count, who had
given up hope, who had foretold early par
alysls and death, who had reluctantly
passed him from the orthodox practitioner
10 the alleged quack, came wondering To
Paris. There, at an informal seance I'm the
patients room, the great Dr. MikuIitsch
with Prof; Hartman and DR.. Soulier. OF
Paris, made an exhaustive examinat ton en-
| tered upon with doubt and skepticism hut
closed with quite cordial but half humble
congratulations TO the wonderful man who
fnYrC &C.
of the stomach of a dying man.
Truly memorable routi No trace or in
! dlcaton or consumption could be found
The three fistuas had dried up: ONLY the
three ugly surgical wounds legacies from
me carry operations, remained The great
| German surgeon and specialist was the first
to beg for tube of the Triumphant Serum
| tor experiment and use, while the vrataf,
Count Hochberg. whose weight has in.
creased now 40 per cent. in five months
with the spirits, bright eyes and Uobt
springy step of a man in sound health is "a
on a tour round the world, with the eIatior
| and exuberance OF a man who has torn
porized with death, drifted Half into tn,
dark eternal, yet emerged unscathed
Many doctors nave examined him since
all confident of finding the evil thing ther.
| still, yet no one has been successful in tn.
quest. 1t is difficult TO realize or soberI,
} appreciate the metamorphosis which Ia,
been brought about.
UnQuestioned cures have been wrought
both in pulmonary and intestinal tubercn
losis, and only one of the most prominen
: has been here detailed. No error has beer
suggested, and If these hundred odd ma
tients are suffering from a common delusio,
then the flaw in the cure or the fraud in tn,
curer is beyond the wit of the writer I,
discover.
Alleged Safe Blowers Arrested.