The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-07-24
ConsumpttUe Cured at Essen Hospital
Other Victims of Scourge WILDE Saved
Doctors Said Theodore LEI
kOwitz Had Dread Disease
When He Went to Verona.
PURE AIR AND PLENTY OF
GOOD FOOD AID RECOVERY
Patient Admitted March Is Will
Leave Institution Pronounced
Well and Is Pounds Heavier.

A Newark physician claims he has
discovered a speedy and positive cure
for consumption. Within a month Theo-
dore Lefkowitz. 20 years old, of Y How
ard street, Newark. will be discharged
from the City Tuberculosis Sanitarium,
in Verona, apparently cured from the
disease which claims nearly a thousand
persons each year in greater Newark.
The young man was admitted to the
institution on March 25, and will be dis
charged with every evidence of being
free from any disease, strong, sturdy
and, withal, one of the happiest men in
all the world. a continuance of good
health will depend upon his manner of
living.
Lefkowitz's case promises to be dis
in Washington in September, and the
cussed at the congress on tuberculosis
Newark doctors method of curing tu-
berculQsis will be given all of the at
tention which 1t merits. Dr. Isaac
Gluckman, superintendent of the City
S~anitarium, Is elated because of LET
kowitz's rapid recovery. Just previous
TO entering the sanitarium the patient
had two severe hemorrhages, and 1t
seemed as IL he could not long survive.
Lefkowitz will return to his position
as treasurer for the Hippodrome, in
New York, as Don as he leaves the
sanitarium, 28 pounds heavier than
when he entered
The cure is regarded by some ply
sicians as permanent, and to an EVE
MING STAR reporter Lefkowftz said
that he was willing that all should
know, through THE EVENING STAR,
that he had been restored to health,
because 1t might induce Others to place
themselves under similar treatment as
soon as possible.
Could Scarcely Walk.
Il started to improve after the first
few days. said the happy appearing
young man, land could scarcely walk
when | came here, having no wind. but
now l walk from eight to ten miles
each day, and can hustle after a troll
ley car as well as anybody. 1t is a
great thing to know that you are quits
with such a disease as tuberculosis, and
although | will be the first to be dis
charged from the Newark Sanitarium
as cured, | sincerely hope and believe
tHdt L Will HOl Dt III ldSl'
L~efkowitz had remained at work al
most until the day he entered the
sanitarium. He consulted various New
York physicians and was finally told
by DIR. r. ]. Janeway, the famous
specialist who attended the late Presi-
dent Mckinley. that he should lose no
time in getting to a sanitarium, recon-
mendlng the Verona sanitarium.
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white plague were most pronounced in
the case of L~efkowitz. He was weak
and emaciated, and the slightest exer-
ton caused him great effort.
At no time since he placed himself
in charge Of DIR. Gluckman has LET
kowitz deviated from the accustomed
diet of any we'll man. He has no par
ticular desire for eggs or milk and has
almost absolutely refrained from in
dulging in them. This Is contrary 10
the treatment administered In a asst
majority of sanitariums, eggs and milk
being considered absolutely necessary II
a cure is to be effected.
Method of Treatment.
The Newark treatment Is totally I'M
like hat of any other sanitarium In
the country, with the possible excep-
ton of some institutions in the Adiron-
dacks. DR.. Gluckman does not force
his patients to eat; they are not placed
under any restrictions other thar those
necessary, and are made to feel as
happy and as contented as possible. II
the patients do not want food they are
not compelled to gorge themselves. and
If they taboo eggs and milk 1t matters
not. Their condition is noted daily,
and the medicinal treatment varied
accordingly. 1t Is seldom that two pa
tients are given the same treatment.
They are given plenty of sunlight, pure
air and the best possible advice In car
ing for themselves so as to aid recov-
cry.
should Not Delay.
II do not see,' aid the physician to
a reporter for THE EVENING STAR,
"why any persons should not be cured
Of tuberculosis, providing they give
themselves over to treatment before all
vestige of health is gone because of
neglect, and the body Is wasted to
nothing. OF course, 1t must be admitted
that In some cases 1t Is found almost
impossible to have a patient respond
to treatment. We are working hard up
mere on lnc mountain, anu Nouiu NC
over-delighted to aid any of the millions
Of poor creatures who are victims OF
the great white plague. 1t Is the great
est plague in the history of man. In
this city more persons die from tubercu-
losis than from al other infectious and
contagious diseases combined. We are
doing well, but there is room for inn
provement. / may be over sympathetic
but II grieves me to be compelled &c
turn away suffering mortals because
they cannot be accommodated. What
we want is more shacks. built so tina
patients can sleep according to the most
modern methods in the open air.
1.-THE time must come when all cities
must make a more concentrated effort
to combat tuberculosis, and l am In
clined to believe that at the coming
Congress in Washington statistics ano
information will be given out which
will almost make the world stand
aghast. tuberculosis is surely to be
reckoned with in all places as well as
Newark. and proper action will &c 9
long way In decreasing the increasing
mortality"
DIR. Gluckman. physician in charge OF
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