Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-10-25
SEEKING REMEDY FOR PELlAGRA
SCIENTISTS TO MAKE CAREFUL
INVESTIGATION.
Work to Be Done in Hygienic Labo-
ratory in Washington-Phy-
sician's Discovery.

NEW YORK. October 25.-Pellasra. the
disease that has excited alarm in southern
states. is to become Immediately the sub
ject of official inquiry The work will be
performed in the hygienic laboratory in
Washington. This action has been ordered
by the Treasury Department at the in
stance of health authorities in various
states. who fear the disease may become
a scouree and who wish to know how
to treat it.
Though il has been known long that
pelIagra is caused by mold blight IN
corn. it has remained for an American
physician to learn the exact nature OF
the blight and to devise a remedy for
the disease DR.. c. c. Carroll of Mead
Vile Pa formerly of No. 100 West I'D
street. has discovered that the germs and
para sites in the mold are closely related
to those found in tuberculosis. They may
be destroyed by electrical treatment, and
nature will then work cure.
Blight in Form of Bulb.
DR. Carroll planted three acres of corn
May l.. in $50 rows. When the corn
ripened he found fifty stalks with a moldy
blight in the form of a. black bulb, a
sight common to farmers everywhere. Tn
der the microscope thousands of germs
and serpentine parasites were found in
one of the bulbs.
1.-The head has hooks or tentacles," DIR.
Carroll writes to the World, that en-
able it to seize and hold tenaciously the
mucous surface or lining of the stomach
and intestinal tract of the human or
lower animal that feeds on corn infected
with the mold. This black bulb goes
until 1t disntegrates and is scattered in
a black powder by the wind. Thus
healthy ears OF corn are infected.
THE germs and parasites closely resem-
BILE those found in gern-infected milk
from diaries known to have tuberculous
cattle. The close resemblance of these
cold mold germs to those in the sputa of
consumptives leads me to suspect pella-
gra to be closely related to tuberculosis.
"A simple and easy way to curtail or
wipe out pellagra would be for the farmer
to go through the cornfield shortly after
it is in tasseI, before the ears of corn
are formed, and gather all these black
mold bulbs or balls and burn them. Then
in harvest time the gathered crop would
probably be free from the pellagra pests
and suitable for healthy, nutritious food.
Only One Thing to Be Done.
"Pelagra, or pellagritis, being dis
case germ of parasitical origin. 1t is only
necessary to destroy the germ or para
site. To this end a germicide that may be
safely administered directly to the organs
involved should be employed. For that
purpose I use an acid germcide applied
to the intestinal tract. driven into the dis
eased parts by an alternating current of
electricity.
This germicide thus applied kills in
stantly all forms of pathogenic bacteria
or parasites that may be present in the
blood stream traversng the system, clog
gng the emunctOries, such as lungs, liver,
kidneys, alvine tract and the glandular
system generally. The violet electrical
ray will stimulate the diseased enlunc-
tories by the polarization of cells that by
disease are depOlariZed, and cause them,
however weakened or impaired by disease,
to perform their true functions and carry
off the dead bacteria