Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-09-17
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NEW CURE FOR FEVER.
Greenwood Physician Gets Light In
HANDLING Typhoid.

Greenwood Physician Gets Light In
Handling Typhoid.
About two weeks ago, the Daily Mall
published an article concerning a new
cure for typhoid fever, which had been
discovered by Prof. w. T. Lander OF
Greenwood. This was the first men
ton of the matter by any newspaper
IN the state and the article aroused
great deal Of interest
special from Greenwood gives
this additional information:
Local physicians are very much in
terested in a new treatment OF typhold
fever. which may be one Of greatest
importance. A paper on the SUBJECT
was read before the county medlcai
society Monday, by the discoVerer ol
the treatment, DR.. w. T. Lander, ana
the matter was freely discussed. The
usual procedure in such matters ls' Oh
course. to have all publication first
made in the regular journals OF the
profession and then they can be pup
isbed by the lay papers. This treat
ment is being freely discussed, now
ever, now, and it will not be amiss 10
tell something about 1t as the paper
read by DR.. Lander will not be pup
Iished for a month yet in the state
Medical Journal. DR.. Lander was
for a number of years a professor IN
his fathers college. Williamson fe-
male college, now Lander college.
Three years ago he entered the South
Carolina Medical college in Charles-
ton, and has one more year before MS
graduation. He is man OF mature
Judgment and has always taken delight
in the work Of the county medical So
ciety, and it was at the request OF the
society that he prepared the paper on
typhoid above referred to.
DIR. Lander does q consluerapie
amount of work in the chemical labor
atory at Lander college, making tests
Of blood, etc., and is frequently called
on TO make tests for physicians. In
this work he has to have fresh cultures
as in the case Of typhoid bacteria they
do not work so we'll If over two days
old. Some time ago he was making up
a new medium in which to place a new
growth or typhoid bacteria and wnlle
engaged in the work was interrupted
He states that in such cases one is not
always accurate because of the inter-
ruption and such was the case with
him then. There IL a regular formula
for this medium in which to grow the
germs. 1t is really sort Of weak beer
broth, but has to be made according
to a regular formula He discovered
after little while that the cultures In
the new test with the supposedly cor
rect medium were not doing so well,
not growing as they should. The idea
then occurred to him that If similar
condition should be brought or could
be brought about in the human sys-
tenn, great progress would be made in
the fight against typhoid fever. He
began to investigate to find out what
was the matter with his medium.
The result of his Investigations was
that the typhoid germs will not grow
in a medium more alkaline than the
prescribed one. Too much acid does
not seem to affect the growth, but an
alkaline preponderance does affect the
growth, 1t retards 1t. This then, IN
brief, is the basis Of the discovery, as
it can be told by layman to laymen
The idea is to develop an alkaline con-
dition in the system Of typhoid fever
patient so that nature can be aided or
backed up in her fight to check the ty-
phoid fever germ. AS is well known,
as soon as a patient develops typhoid
fever or any other germ disease, ma
ture at once gets busy and starts thel
manufacture of a poison in the sys-
tenn to fight this particular germ. If
nature can get breeches hold the germ
Is doomed, if not, the patient dies.
This new treatment is simply an effort
to find something that will help nature
with it's weapons of defense. OF
course, such treatment must be in the
hands Of physician and must De ao-
ministered as the individual case in
dicates. Some man has written to Dr.
Lander telling him he had five cases
Of typhoid fever and wants to get the
treatment" To him, as to all others,
DR.. Lander writes that he must con-
suit his physician, and if the physician
cares to write to him, he will be glad
to tell him the results of the tests made
here.
AS said above, the matter is being
freely discussed by physicians here,
and apparently satisfactory results
have been had in such tests as have
been made. In other towns around,
too. the physicians are testing the
treatment t.-Anderson Daily Mail.