Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1911-06-17


Society to invite Dr. schafer to deliver 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
doubt Dr. Schafer's 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 cure 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
a competent jury, and proved his case.
At the February meeting of the San Francisco
Medical Society DR.. Schafer 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 it 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 anti-toxin
During that trying month in San Francisco DR.
Schafer was careful not to advance a single claim
He merely showed the results of his experiments
and let them speak for themselves. To medical
men he 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 it, he was the
victim of the magnitude of actual accomplish
ment." 1t would have been very easy for him o
have acquired the reputation of a charlatan But
he is entirely saved from that by the fact that
he been furnishing his anti-toxin free from
the beginning. Far from making money out of his
discoveries, he has sunk his small fortune of s40,
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
Other Tests.
Pneumonia is not the only disease Dr. Schafer
has cured, but 1t has attracted most attention on
account of it's seeming infallibility. Back of the
remedies lies theory of medicine. Its prin-
cple is revolutionary. 1t disregards many cher
ished medical ideas. But it gets results. Little
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
Dr. w B. Corey, the Southern Pacific surgeon.
81 have real men who have been made well
by it,
Other diseases in which Dr. Schafer has brought
permanent with his anti-toxins scarlet
fever rheumatism, diphtheria. typhoid fever, dys-
EMERY 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
deaths. OF the $50 people treated in San Fran
cisco only three died
This comes pretty nearly being a panacea Do
you see why DR.. Schafer is canny with his re-
marks? Suppose he had announced he could cure
anything. He would have been promptly dicred-
tied But when you right down to it, DR.
Schafer is convinced that he can cure anything
The only disease he has encountered IN his prac-
tice which he has been able to entirely is
tuberculosis. But that has yielded, except
in
1t is DR.. Schafer's expressed wish not to lay too
much stress tuberculosis He fears too great
credence He does not wish to raise hopes. Nor
does he have his Office in Bakerfield be-
sieged by tubercuar patients At the present
time he is planning to have his antitoxins avail
able in every community. where any doctor can
administer them He is 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 patent. no
restriction of 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 in him 80 completely