The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-06-04
RELIEVES HE HAS CURE.
Federal Expert - Successful With
Several Pellagra Cases-Somc Are
Inclined to Doubt It's Value.

y months spent in this city and near
here Investigating pellagra for the
Federal government. are enthusiastic
In their belief that Dr. Long has solv-
ed the pellagra problem. has discoy-
cred the cause and cure Of the mystic
rious disease which puzzled the sew
'eral hundred distinguished medical
men who wore here last fall to attend
J the international conference on pella-
gra. These physicians are admins
tering his medical treatment and diet
and claim TO be getting fine results
though the treatment is long drawn
out and there Is hardly time yet to
judge just how successful the treat
ment Is going To be. Some eight cases
DR.. Long has treated at the State Hos
pital for the Insane have been dis
charged as cured. one OF these was
physician. Several of the patients
minds had become affected, but there
!. are now over their mental troubles.
Most Of the local pellagra experts
however, those physicians who have
been closely watching and studying
the disease for several years are not
very hopeful over the theory DIR. Long
has evolved. Neither do they place
|. much faith in his reputed cures, as
in their own experience there have
been so many spontaneous cures.
IL seems TO be generally agreed,
however, that II DIR. Longs theory is
correct his remedy Is practically
specific and that pellagra will be as
certainly susceptible to permanent
and prompt cure as the hookworm
disease Is to the thymol treatment.
But IL Dr. Long is correct in the con-
ditions which produce pellagra II
would seem that about half the popu-
lation is on the road to the disease.
DIR. Longs Theory OF Cause.
DIR. Long himself would not talk for
publication as he wishes to submit his
solution OF the problem carefully
worked out through further expert
mentation to the American Associa-
tion. but this Is his solution of the
| mystery of the cause Of the disease
as given by physicians who have been
working with him.
Amoebic conditions and other in
tCs.inal troubles due to aynoeba and
TO diet too rich in the proteids causes
fern entat,on and dyscntery conditions
\ which gradually result I'm extra car
tiiage deposits witch pressing on the
nerve centers in the spinal cord cause
the peculiar skin disturbances noted
In pellagrins, first on the hands and
feet and groin and later further up on
the body until the brain itself is af-
Effected.
OF several hundred microscopical
stool examinations DR.. Long has con-
Quoted he has found amoebi In a
large percentage of them. This has
been almost invariably the case in
the pellagra cases he has examined.
The amoeba parasites cause amoebic
dysentery, there being two kinds, the
pathagenic and the -pathagenic,
the latter being harmless. The path
agenic kind can be identified by their
peculiar form under the microscope.
Dr. Long found many cases OF amoeba
In Columbia. After a thorough exam
ination he exonerated the city water
WaV.tNr l.trk
methods pursued on fertilizing GER
tain truck farms near Columbia which
he regarded as dangerous. This
amoebic situation Is not peculiar 10
the South, he said. but such troubles
have been discovered as existing in
twenty-four States In the Union. The
parasite appears to be Of sub b-tropical
origin and may have been brought
here. some OF it by the negroes from
Africa and some by immigrants and
f by the soldiers who went TO Cuba.
V The drug treatment Is supplement-
ed with a dieting which eliminates
the protein foods. DR.. Longs solu-
tion Of the great mystery does away
with the maize theory except i'm so
far as maize increases the amount Of
r proteins.
DIR. Longs Supposed Cure.
Here Is tho drug treatment which
the Long enthusiasts believe carries
the cure for pellagra.
Salol coated capsules Of pancrca-
tin No. SO, grains each; one before
each meal
Salol coated capsules OF sodium bl- !
carbonate. 10 grains each; three times
day before meals.
Potassium capsules ot sodium Iii /