Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-11-04
THE QUAKER DOCTOR

This remarkable physician Wis
consin's leading specialist in chronic
diseases of men and women, nervous
disorders of children and skin dis
eases, who visits Grand Rapids every
i four weeks, and who will be at the
Witter House, Tuesday and Wednes-
| day, Nov 9, 10, in his lecture to
women on diseases of children says:
Thirty years experience as a ply
stefan has convinced me that more
than half the diseases, and nervous
disorders of children are caused by
worms of which there are more
than forty known varieties in the
the stomach and intestines, and new
ones are constantly being found. 1t
| is unfortunate that so little atten-
ton is given to this subject in Medi-
helminthology or the study of worms
| is almost entirely neglected in all of
them; so that the physician has no.
thing but his textbooks to guide
him, and they are invariably wrong,
including my own,-for I have made
many discoveries since it's publica-
ton. AS these statements may sur
prise you-and to show you the i'm
portance of a thorough knowledge of
this subject to every physician I
shall mention a few remarkable cases
that illustrate my point.
Baby Has Tape Worm.
In Two Rivers, a poor thin little
baby, the child of Carl Gutenberg, a
member of the Life Saving Crew,
was brought to me. Doctors said it
was dying of consumption, but the
father said it ate as much as a
grown person, this made me SUSPECT
Gus and a further Investigation soon
proved that the child had a tape
worm, which I removed entire with
one dose Of medicine. Now listen,
this baby, not yet two years Of age,
had ia its inside a tape-worm sixty
feet long. No wonder the doctors
thought it had consumption.
Said He Was ParaIysed.
In Fond dn Lac, James Roble, aged
10 years was brought to me, said
to have been paralysed for five
years, having entirely lost control
of the bowels and the bladder, and
unable to attend school on account
| of his affliction. | suspected some
thing else, and a few injections
brought away a mass of ascarides,
very tiny worms, very irritating to
the nervous system and destructive
to the blood, and now you ask me
what was the result, we'll his So
called paralysis was gone, he had
perfect control of himself in a week,
and the boy was cured. | had an
other case exactly like the above
in Rhinelander last month.
Said He Had Cancer.
Another remarkable case was that
of Charles Russell of Ashland, a
newspaper man, who had suffered
from pain in his stomach for twenty
years, and finally was told he had
cancer and must be operated on at
once, but fortunately he came to me
first, and I relieved him of an enor-
nous tape-worm which was the whole
cause of his trouble.
Still another case is that Of girl
they
Thought Had Appendicitis.
Miss Lucina Moore of Palmyra,
who frequently felt large swelling
near the appendix was brought to
me while in that condition, because
the mother had been told she must
undergo an operation. [ found that
upon gentle pressure, the ball-ike
tumor in her side Immediately dis
appeared, and knowing that some
tape-worms roll themselves into a
mass, like a ball, [ recognized what
was the trouble, gave her one dose
of medicine and in less than one
hour she passed large worm head
and all complete in one piece, and
10! her appendicitis was gone. But
I could fill this newspaper with my
own experiences of this kind, and
have the documents in proof Of every
one in my office. Now what do