The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1911-07-08

was able to persuade the San Francisco Medical
Society to invite DR.. Schafer deliver an address
The facts of DR.. Schafers cures were unbeliev-
able. but the audience could not help being i'm
pressed blythe intense dynamic aspect Of the man
They might doubt the possibility but they could
not doubt DR.. Schafers earnestness. Against their
will they had to take him seriously. When the
meeting closed. they arranged for clinic at the
Southern Pacific Hospital. where DR.. Schafer. in
the presence of the chief surgeons of the biggest
hospitals. agreed to every case that was
brought before him. He accepted them as they
came and the worst was reported cured in eight
days In other words. he given trial before
competent jury. and proved his case.
At the February meeting of the San Francisco
Medical Society DR.. Schafer was to speak at length
and the hall was crowded. but there were many
physicians present who had not had first hand
opportunity to study Dr. Schafer's methods and,
although he was supported by men whose medical
regulations we're above reproach they refused to
permit the society to endorse him. They held
that 1t was matter for each member to work
out in his own practice. The address never
delivered but meanwhile, lives were being saved
every day by the Of the antitoxin
During that trying month in San Francisco DR..
Schafer was careful not to advance single claim.
He merely showed the results of his experiments
and let them speak for themselves. To medical
men he was quite open. but mystery surrounded
him because he refused to talk for publication.
He refused because he felt the delicacy of his po
sition. AS he himself expressed 1t. he was the
victim of the magnitude of actual accomplish
ment" 1t would have been very easy for him to
have acquired the reputation of a charIatan. But
he is entirely saved from that by the fact that
he has been furnishing his antitoxin free from
the beginning Far from making money out of his
discoveries he has sunk his small fortune Of $40.
900 into his laboratory work and at one time
about five years ago, Just before he clnched his
discoveries. he went deeply into debt Even at
this is being written. he is preparing three hun
dred samples of his serums which to be sent to
leading physicians and surgeons In all parts Of the
United States. With them DR.. Schafer has agreed
to leave the final verdict to the value of his
remedies.
Pneumonia il not the only disease DR.. schafer
has cured but 1t has attracted most attention ON
account of its seeming infallibility. Back of the
remedies lies a new theory of medicine. Its prin-
ciple is revolutionary. 1t disregards many cher
shed medical ideas. But 1t gets results. Little
they have been able to understand it. many Of tho
best physicians and surgeons in San Francisco
have recommended It.
Regardless of all doubts and theories" said
DIR. w. B. Coffey the Southern Pacific surgeon,
Il have seen real men who have been made well
by It,"
Other diseases in which Dr. Schafer has brought
permanent cures with his antitoxins are scarlet
fever, rheumatism. diphtheria. typhoid fever dys-
entery. erysipelas. tetanus and certain forms of
tuberculosis
With that list let US stop and take breath. Al
together the various anti-toxins DR.. Schafer has
produced have been used In $500 cases with only
ten deaths. or the $50 people treated In San Fran
cisco only three died
This comes pretty nearly being a panacea. Do
you why Dr. Schafer is canny with his
marks? Suppose he had announced he could cure
anything. He would have been promptly dicred-
tied. But when you come right down to it, DR..
Schafer Is convinced that he can cure anything
The only disease he has encountered in his prac-
tce which he has not been able to entirely Ii
tuberculosis. But even that has yielded. except
In severe cases.
1t Is Dr. Schafer's expressed wish not to lay too
much stress on tuberculosis. He fears too great
credence. He does not wish to raise hopes. Nor
does he want to have his Office in Bakeraeld be-
sieged by tubercular patients. At the present
time he is planning to have his anti-toxins avail
able in every community where any doctor can
administer them. He 10 firmly convinced In his
own mind that he has brought great boon to
humanity. and he wants all humanity to have
the advantage of It, There Is to be no patent, NO
restriction Of any kind on the development or
of his remedies That IL one Of the reasons
why those who have become acquainted with his
work in California believe In him % completely.