The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1911-07-11

returned enthusiastic After some difficulty he
able to persuade the San Francisco Medical
Society to invite Dr. Schafer to deliver an address
The facts OF DR.. Schafer's cures were unbeliev-
able, but the audience could not help being i'm
pressed by the intense dynamic aspect of the man.
They might doubt the possibility but they could
not doubt DR.. Schafer's earnestness. Against their
will they had to take him seriously. When the
meeting closed. they arranged for a clinic at the
Southern Pacific Hospital, where DR.. Schafer in
the presence of the chief surgeons of the biggest
hospitals, agreed to cure every that was
brought before him. He accepted them as they
came and the worst reported cured in eight
days. In other words. he was given trial before
a 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 crowded. but there were many
physicians present who had not had a first hand
opportunity to study DR.. Schafer's methods and,
although he was supported by men whose medical
regulations were above reproach. they refused to
permit the society to endorse him. They held
that 1t a matter for each member to work
out in his own practice. The address was never
delivered, but, meanwhile, lives were being saved
every day by the use of the anttoxin.
During that trying month in San Francisco DR..
Schafer careful not to advance a single claim
He merely showed the results of his experiments
and let them speak for themselves. To medical
he quite open but a mystery surrounded
him because he refused to talk for publication.
He refused because he felt the deicacy of his po-
stion. AS he himself expressed It, he the
victim of the magnitude OF actual accomplish
ment" 1t would have been very easy for him to
have acquired the reputation of charlatan. 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 time.
about five years ago. just before he cnched his
discoveries, he went deeply into debt. Even at
this is being written. he is preparing three hun.
dred samples OF his which are to be sent to
United States With them DR.. Schafer has agreed
to leave the final verdict as to the value of his
remedies
Other Tests.
Pneumonia is not the only disease DE-. Schafer
has cured, but it has attracted most attention on
account of its seeming infallibility. Back OF the
remedies lies theory of medicine It's prin-
cipe is revolutionary. 1t dsregards many cher
ished medical ideas. But 1T gets results. Little as
they have been able to understand it. many of the
best physicians and surgeons in San Francisco
have recommended it,
Regardless of all doubts and theories" said
DIR. w. b. Coney. 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 anti-toxins are scarlet
foyer rheumatism dphthera. typhoid fever dys-
EMERY erysipelas, tetanus and certain forms Of
tuberculosis.
With that list let us stop and take breath AL.
together tho various anttoxins Dr. Schafer has
produced have been used I'm $500 cases with only
ten deaths or the 100 people treated in San Fran.
cisco only three died.
This comes pretty nearly being panacea. DO
you see why Dr. Schafer is so canny with his re.
marks? Suppose he had announced he could cure
anything. He would have been promptly dcred.
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 is
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 I'm BakerAeld be-
sieged by tubercular patients. At the present
time he is planning to have his anti-toxns avail
able In every community, where any doctor can
administer them. lie is firmly convinced I'm his
own mind that he has brought great boon TO
humanity, and he wants all humanity to have
tho advantage OF it. There is to be no patent no
restriction OK any kind on the development or
use Of his remedies. That is one OF the reasons
why those who have become acquainted with his
work in California believe I'm him so completely