Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-06-16

~ days, and usually there Is
no time to waste, SO in his Bakersfield prac-
tce DR.. Schafer worked out a rough for
mula which was found to be effective in local
cases. He prepared what he termed a mixed in
%fection,' which is worth knowing about for the
lives it has already saved. As far as experiments
have gone, it might be called the pneumonia anti
toxin. It Is composed Of equal portions Of the
counterirritants to the three germs predominant
in This mixture was the result OF
long experiment and is unquestionably a certain
remedy for pneumonia in Bakersfield.
1t is made by stimulating the artificial growth
Of the three germs by ordinary laboratory methods
until the metabolic fluid thrown off has progressed
sufficiently, when the cultured mass is incubated,
macerated and disintegrated. The mixing of the
resulting vaccfneS requires great skill.
This stock anti-toxin will probably prove to be
valuable anywhere. In the first few days follow
ing the announcement of the remedy in January
Of this year, when San Francisco physicians could
only believe it the work of a quack, DR.. Henry
Spiro took a chance with it in a desperate situa.
ton, with astonishing results.
"A pneumonia patient was apparently dying"
he explained afterwards, land, in what seemed his
last breath, he begged for any relief. But l could
do nothing for HIM, except try the new Schafer
remedy. And so, as a last resort, l injected into
his veins twice the amount of the a%nti-toxin DR..
Schafer prescribed.
IAN hour later he showed improvement. Be,
fore night he was out of danger. In eight days he
walked from the hospital. In much less serious
cases it would ordinarily have taken him at least
three weeks"
The charts and records of this case are in st.
Francis Hospital, San Francisco.
In practice the stock %antitoxin has been used,
but, unless the patient has shown immediate bene-
fits, cultures have been taken and special prepa-
rations made in which the anti-toxins have been
mixed in the exact proportions in which the germs
were found in the body. And, in every case in
which this has been done, the patient has prompt
ly rallied and got we'll.
Two years ago DR.. Schafer took into his conf
dence four other physicians in Bakersfield. One
Of them, DR.. N. N. Brown, alone treated over a
thousand cases without a death. Some of them
were for publishing thed iscovery to the world.
They said DR.. Schafer was hiding his light under
a bushel. But DR.. Schafer was against it, He
knew that If he had a real, enduring light, 1t would
shine out from under the bushel.
First it became known in the surrounding coun-
try that Bakersfield was the place to go to and. be
cured. Then the news gradually spread, and cure
after cure made the light burn brightly under the
bushel. But it was not until this winter that 1t
attracted the attention Of San Francisco physi-
clans. Several, after listening to tales of seeming
1y impossible cures, went down to Bakersfield,
dubious but curious.
Among these visitors was DR.. Frederick Fehlei-
sen, a scientific bacteriologist who discovered the
micro-organism which causes erysipelas. He re-
NAMED two weeks, and at the end Of that time