The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-20
HAS HE FOUND IT?
DIR. aCFarland, of Topeka,
Tells a Strange Story.
Prairie Dog Exterminator Turn
ed Into Consumption Cure.
RIVAL OF DIR. KOCH.
Experiments on People With
Bronchial Trouble.
Says the Deadly Gas Will Cure
People.
RIVAL OF DR.. KOCH.

claims to have discovered a cure for
consumption.
With the same apparatus and some
of the identical chemicals which he used
a year ago in discriminating prairie
dogs at the rate of a ten-acre town in
an hour, DIR. Frederick Mcfarland, of
613 Branner street, this city, is dispenS-
ing a remedy for consumption and
bronchial troubles which if not per-
manent has given temporary relief to
large number of people. Free as the
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 gas that inn
presses the organ of smell as containing
a large quantity of birthstone; have
SMILED and sneezed until the supply of
sntft1es and sneezes would seem to have
been exhausted; have gone away many
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
effected.
DR.. Mcfarland has been granted a
patent on the discovery. He says it is
composed of five chemicals which he
compounds anu IUeU DlOWlHS the
gas thus generated in the faces of his
patients and allowing them to inhale it
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 a blacksmith's
bellows mounted on a WheelbarroW.
Above the bellows is a small stove and
upon the fire built inside the chemicals
are placed and burned. A garden hose
attached to the top conducts he gas
out as it is forced by b. VCr operated
by hand. The suffer ply sit or
stand about the nnachiEE 1t a distance
which can be conveniently reached by
the hose, and as the apparatus is put
in operation the doctor walks about
holding the nozzle in their faces until
he is satisfied they have taken a full
inspiration of the gas Then he passes
on, completing the circle, and return
ing every few minues.
1t is interesting to know how the dis
coVery of this remedy was made. Last
spring DR.. Mcfarland went to the
western part of the state to test the
efficiency of his prairie dog and gopher
exterminator which he had invented.
He took with him Oscar Robertson, a
resident of Meriden who is said to have
had a very bad case of catarrh. Rob
ertSOn," 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
icaI 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
] went to work with the result that
three weeks ago gave my first treat
ment here free and have continued
them so in order that I might deter
mine whether or not there was any
thing in it. 1 must say that I have
been astonished, far beyond my expec-
tations. We have cured cases that the
doctors have given up as incurable;
those that no other medicine could
cure. You see this gas is such that
as soon as it touches a spot where there
is Il 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 sterilize 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 4O-fOot we'll in his back yard, and
when first brought up being a milky
color, he has brought down preeipitates
that left the liquid in an absolutely
clear state.
DR.. Mcfarland is a medical practi-
toner of many years experience, hav-
ing formerly been at Holton, Meriden
and Usage City He says the extermina-
tor of prairie dogs is a success; the
first attempt he ever made he knocked
one of the little fellows at q distance of
1856 feet and in less than a minutes
time. He shows a number of letters
from residents of the short grass coun-
try stating that his method is effective,
and asking him more fully to introduce
his machine and the chemicals by means
of which it is possible to destroy the
pests. He is giving little attention to
that branch, however. devoting all his
time to the new discovery. The ses-
sions are attended nightly by about &C
people of both sexes and nearly all ages
The above article appeared in the
State Journal as a news item August
%, 1902 Since then a company has beer
organized for the manufacture of the
doctors wonderful discovery and severa
hundred people have purchased tht
Germacide Machine and been cured OF
Catarrh, Hay Fever, Asthma anC
Bronchial Affections.
Write for testimonials and full par.
Ciculars.