The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1906-08-21
DR.. f. .VOse OF Brooklyn Asks
County Medical Societies
TO INVESTIGATE METHODS
Many Patients Declare Treatment Has
Completely Checked Disease--Tt ri
Based on the counter-Irritant
Principle.

New York, Aug. 2l.--The medical So
cieties Of New York and Kings coun
ties have received request from DIR
Il. ]. Vosc Of No SIS Somers street
Brooklyn, that an investigation be made
into an lleged cure for consumption
which he claims he has discovered.
The doctor who asks that his treat
mcnt for the dread disease and his sup.
posed cure be looked into, il physi-
clan Of high standing who has made
d study of tuberculosis for the past
twenty years and who believes that by
the use Of plasters locally applied over
the lungs he has saved SO per cent 81
the cases which he had attended in the
past year
A number Of Dr. vosc's former pa
tients were interviewed. They al i'm
plicitIy believe that Dr.. yose has saved
their lives. Two of these patients have
been sent home from sanitariums with
the idea Of dying among their relatives
and friends.
ON Of Dr. Nose's notable cases Il that
Of Peter Stark, Of No. 242 East Sew
enth street, Manhattan, who had been
d victim Of consumption for years. He
had spent months III sanitarium in
Liberty, M IS, and failed tn improve.
II was the general belief Of his family
and neighbors that his end Was near.
when he was put under the care 81 DR..
Nose. On June 22 the health depart
ment found tuberculosis baeilli IN his
sputa He was refused admittance To
the Raybrook sanitarium on the ground
that his ease had gone too far and was
hopeless. Under DR.. Vose's treatment
be believes he had been cured. and the
examination made BY the health depart
ment IN the latter part Of the last month
failed to locate any disease germs.
The treatment Of DR.. Nose Is deycl.
oped on the counter-irritant principle.
He seeks to attack the disease from the
nearest appgoaehable point He believes
that he can destroy the life III the
bacili by the application of plasters
on the surface OF the body over the
points where they are active. The plas-
tiers blister the skin and appear to draw
pus to the surface. This Dr. yosc be.
lieves 70 be from the cavities Of the
lungs that have been created by the
bicilli. IL is his theory that, once this
process has been started. the progress
OF the disease IS checked and cure
il under way Shortly after the treat.
ment Is begun, the doctor claims. the
cough loses It's characteristics quality
and the patient begins TO regain his
strength
If there is anything at all in the
new treatment it is, to say the least,
the discovery Of a new principle in med.
icine What process Is gone through.
from therapeutieal standpoint, is
mystery. If the cavities Of the lungs
are really drained Of their pus, as the
doctor claims, it still leaves unexplained
the arresting Of the progress OF the
disease Il il occurs However, the un,
discovered process does not necessarily
mean that il does not exist and the
fact that new theory Is being dealt
with naturally leaves room for as vet
pathological changes.
DR.. Vose admits that there are con.
ditions under which his treatment fails
to produce satisfactory results. Com
plications, such as diseases Of other or
gans, are serious handicaps.
Like several noted cases in medical
history, DIR. Vose first found the sug.
gestion for tho study of tuberculosis
in the fact that he was himself vic
tim of it.