Rocky Ford enterprise., 1908-10-23

tude wellcd up in some eyes in con-
tirmation OF their improved condi-
tion. The cases. 65 in number, are
of all stages of the disease. Some
had been able to make the journey
from the East to the Colorado insti-
tuition unaided and some had had
to be carried and attended. There
are now two hundred patients, all sail
ors OF the U. S. Navy and all aiflict-
ed with this one disease. All who
wish to try the mercury treatment
are given it, but none are impellcd
to do So Good. nutritious diet is
freely supplied at this we'll equipped
government retreat and they all sleep
on open porches or in comfortable
tents. Cleanliness and comfort are
no doubt contributing something to
the chances of cure. 1t was asked by
the visiting physicians whether or
not it was probable the marked
change from shipboard and damp eli
mate to these new surroundings and
much to do with the cures as the
mercury. The answer was that while
the change had doubtless been con-
tributory in many cases of improve
ment, there were those who had no.
taken the treatment and were not at
all improved but had grown worse;
while with but two exceptions every
one OF the mercury patients had i'm
proved and some were cured. 1t is
now ten months since DR.. Wright be-
G IN specific demonstration upon his
mercury theory. How he came to be
gin is OF significant interest, and may
be told without any apologies in 9TH
er columns than those of the medical
journals. The prevalence OF syphilis
among sailors is widely published
and unhappy fact The only more
unhappy one is that it is not confined
to sailors. DR.. Wright, as a Naval
physician, was called on to give the
well known antidotc for this disease
-mcrcury-a great deal in his official
practice. and i'll the course OF his pro
fcsSional observations he. noted that
in cases OF consumption associate !
with this other malady both diseases
were favorably influenced by the one
remedy 1t was this that led up to
his Investigations and tests. and Ger
tainly TO the most remarkable results.
so far as they have proceeded. OF any
of the proclaimed discoveries of a
remedy for tuberculosis.
A most remarkable and interesting
fact too about this new remedy is
this. that in the practice OF medicine
in time past and up to this date the
physician has been warned especially
that he must he careful in the admin
istratinn OF mercury and iodifc Of po-
| ia sium for vcnercal disease in cases
! complicated with consumption. Be.
cause. forsooth. it was the tendency
of ;1crcury and potassium to break
I down the tissues involved with tu-
i,ereuIosis bacciili and spread the in
! fectious poisons through the system,
+ sending off the patient with 'gallop-
ing consumption"
! 1t would now seem that that con
clusion was all wrong. and that the
''gallop" If il occurred. was started
by something else That what the
patient needed was more mercury
and more potassium. not less. and
that il properly persisted in the gal
Iop" would probably have returned
to n gentle "cantcr" and then to Il
walk and a standstilI At all events:
according to the latest deductions OF
medical science. as demonstrated at
Fort Lyon. no unhappy 'lunger' has
been hurried off the stage of exist
cnce by alternating dosage Of mer-
curry and pota ssium That many who
like the play NAV now have it great
ly prolonged by Dr. Wright's profes..
sionai insight and investigation and
study is our sincere hope. May his
name be handed down to posterity
among the illustrious ones in the
ranks OF the noblcst OF all the pro-
fessions as one who served his day
and generation by demonstrating an
efficient remedy for one of the worst
maladics that afflicts the human race.
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