The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1909-02-04
DYING PAUPERS ARE
BROUGHT BACK
TO HEALTH
NEW CURE FOR DREADED WHITE
PLAGUE AMAzEs PARIS PEoPt E
ROC kEFEILER's soNIN.LAW
BACKS HEALER.
BY VANCE THOMPSON.


the sensation in medical Paris has
been a new cure" for tuberculosis
which is being demonstrated al one
OF the municipal hospitals.
Five deathbod cases OF pauperS IN
advanced stages OF consumption were
selected by the physicians and after
permission had been given 10y the mu-
nicipal board OF charity the moribunds
were turned over TO the eXperimenter
This is toe first time the Partisan AL.
thorities have ever permitted an out
slider TO establish himself In taench
hospital and carry on experiments.
The most remarkable thing about the
expeIimenter is that he Is neither
doctor nor scientist and came 10 Par
is a few weeks ago virtually unknown,
while his cure is secret when ne
refuses 10 disclose.
In spite OF all these handicaps he
has convinced the leading physicians
that he has a marvellous cure for con
sumption and that after only three
weeks treatment the five paupers are
on the way 10 health.
After a long search the correspond
ent discovered this wonder-worker at
1
and in the brilliant, persuasive man
who came forward he recognized Or
lando f. Miller, who was once famous
| for a rupture cure, which he advertis-
ed from one end OF the country 10 the
other Later he had home for inc
briates al Chicago which burned
down, resulting in dozen deaths, one
being that of an alderman-blind Bill
| ly" Kent.
Indeed. few men ever had more
picturesque career than this hand
some healer whose picture with flow
ing side whiskers appeared in every
newspaper. Miller had been an evan
gelist, bible reader and SO brilliant
a financier that he was once indicted
for killing twenty million dollars OF
checks and wrecking Ave banks In
| Denver in the panic OF 1898. Con
victed by Denver court, he was af-
terward fully acquitted by the United
states supreme court.
Talks Without Bitterness.
OF these old memories Miller talk
ed frankly and without bitterness He
/ then related the new adventure which
| had brought him 10 Paris and carried
| him into the entrenched strongholds
of medical science. He declared that
he had discovered a cure for tubercu-
losis in the treatment of inebriates-
He interested Harold +. MacCormick
of Chicago, son-in-law of John d.
! Rockefeller, in the work. A number
of death-bed cases, chosen by physi
clans. were to be given his treatment
under the charge OF the Chicago
boards trained nurses. Or. Theodore
Sachs and other doctorsD refused t.
allow the nurses TO act I'm this capa
city and MacCormick meanhile mad
sailed for Paris, When he heard the
news he telegraphed Miller To come
over and try to cure one of his dear
| friends, son OF Mr.. Hoffman, the
| European representative OF the Reap
err trust, AMI Miller arrived on Nov. IA
| last.
Young Hoffman, died In few days
OF pleuro abscess, but the treatment
| had been so benefcent for his lungs
| that the physicians urged further ex
| perlments. Through their influence
| the five paupers were given up TO Mr.
Miller. They were all wretched crea
| lures, condemned as hopeless. Their
entire care devolved on Miller and q
nurse he had brought from Chicago
Mrs. Roberta Parsons. As neither
Miller nor the nurse was permitted &c
remain in the hospital at night. the
patients were deprived OF the cure fol
nearly 10 hours In spite OF this fact
their progress Is SO amazing that ply
sicians came from other hospitals &c
study the results The paupers had
II course been bedridden for months
| After the seventh day the patients
put on flesh. and they have since gain
ed steadily from half a pound To g
| pound daily on the tenth day they
we're able 10 walk down four pairs oil
stairs and ride I'm an automobile foI
an hour. and then remount the stairs
The hospital charts show that their
temperature has dropped to practical