The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-08-06

From the Birmingham News.
 Can consumption be cured?
 Yes
 If the many sufferers from this dread ful scourge in Alabama but knew that Birmingham offered more advantages and nearer sure relief and cure than any oth- CT city in the entire south the railroads would have to run extra trains to bring in the crowds of consumptives for treat ment.
 It is not over-stating the case at all to say that the above is fact. A visit to the marvelously equipped offices of Drs. Dozier & Dozier at 117ia Twenty-first street would be revelation to the most learned physician The most extensive and elaborate modern electrical devices for treatment by phototherapy and rad iotherapy are found here in a collection that is not equaled in any sanatarium in the southern states. It is marvellous gathering together of all methods of treatment for tuberculosis, cancer and other desperate maladies to which the hut man body Is heir. It must also be remem- bered that these methods evidently give the eminent specialists manifold advant- ages over the regular practitioners, whose sole armament is internal remedies, the same perhaps that has been in traditional favor for many years. Drs. Dozier & Dozier are learned physicians, graduates or the pest neQlcdi lHSlIlutiOuo oi tiiO country, deeply read and have the excep- tional advantage of dealing with what might usually be termed desperate cases almost exclusively for many years
 When Dr. o. T. Dozier was asked the direct question as to whether tubercu- losis, commonly known IS consumption could be cured, he most emphatically said, "Yes. If the patient commences before the disease has progressed too far. 1t is as impossible for us to make new pair of lungs as it would be to cause a new finger to grow on an amputated stump But where we get a case in time we can and do drive out the germs and cause the erosions to heal in the lungs just as eff fectivey as it is possible to heal an ex- ternal wound"
 Dr. Dozier very interestingly explained the various methods employed by them for the treatment of consumption.
 The electric room is perfect maze of curious and complicated mechanical devices. First" said he. "here is the x-ray, which Is used for rendering the habitat of the consumption germ unten- able 1t being well-established fact that light is destructive to the existence of all parasitic and fungoid germs. Dr. Lered- de. one of the most eminent savants of medical science of the world, in a recent lecture before the French Association for the Advancement of Science, states pos itiyely that the X-rays traverse the body, making it possible to treat deep-seated lesions. and does cure external cancers.
 Next is the medicated compressed air nebulizer. from which the patient breathes medicated air Compressed air is forced through this apparatus containing medi- cated volatile oils, which are inhaled, producing local effects like applying oint- ments and soothing salves to external wounds. We also administer electrically generated azone modified by medicated air, breathed directly into the lungs by the patient. As ozone is the highest form of oxygen, it is known to be the greatest antiseptic in nature; it is, therefore, un- occasionally the one great curative means, and is the sheet anchor of hope to patients affected with tuberculosis.
 Through this appliance our patients are enabled 10 here obtain more ozone in half hours treatment than they prob ably would get in breathing the ozonated atmosphere obtained in the highest alti- trdes in America in weeks time.
 Here is another faithful ally. It is a mcdicated steam vaporizer To our every tuberculosis patient we furnish one of