Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1911-06-16

was able to persuade the San Francisco Medical
Society to invite Dr. Schafer to deliver an address
The facts of Dr. Schafer's cures 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 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 was crowded but there were many
physicians present who had not had first hand
opportunity to study DR.. Schafer's methods and,
although he supported by men whose medical
regulations were above reproach they refused 10
permit the society to endorse him. They helo
that it was 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 of the ant1-toXln
During that trying month in San francisco III
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
siton. AS he himself expressed it, he was the
victim of the magnitude of actual accomplish
ment" It would have been very easy for MIN 10
have ACQUIRED the reputation of charlatan. But
he is entirely saved from that by the fact that
he has been furnishing his antftoxin free from
the beginning Far from making money out OF MS
discoveries he has sunk his small fortune OF $4O-
900 into his laboratory work and at one time,
about five years ago, just before he cllnched MS
discoveries he went deeply into debt. Even at
this is being written he is preparing three hun
dred samples of his serums which are to De sent 10
leading physicians and surgeons in all parts OF the
United States. With them DR.. Schafer has agreed
to leave the final verdict as to the value OF MS
remedies.
Other Tests.
Pneumonia is not the only disease DR.. Schafer
has cured but it has attracted most attention on
account of it's seeming infallibility. Back OF the
remedies lies theory of medicine. It's pr1n-
ciple is revolutionary It disregards many cher
ished medical ideas. But it gets results Little as
they have been able to understand it, many OF the
best physicians and surgeons in San Francisco
have recommended it.
"Regardess Of all doubts and theories, said
Dr. w B. Coffey, the Southern Pacific surgeon,
CT have seen real men who have been made well
by it."
Other diseases in which DR.. Schafer has brBdght
permanent cures with his anti-toxins are scarlet
fever rheumatism diphtheria typhoid fever dys-
EMERY, eryspelas, tetanus and certain forms OF
tuberculosis.
With that list let stop and take breath. Al
together the various anti-toxins Dr. Schafer has
produced have been used in 4,500 cases with only
ten 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 so canny with his re-
marks? Suppose he had announced he could cure
anything. He would have been promptly dicred-
tied. But when you come right down to it, DIR.
Schafer is convinced that he can cure anything.
The only disease he has encountered in his prac-
tice which he has not been able to entirely is
tuberculosis. But 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 Bakerfeld be-
sieged by tubercular 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,
restriction of any kind the development
use OF his remedies. That is Of the reasons
why those who have become acquainted with his
work in California believe in him so completely.