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

returned enthusiastic. After some difficulty he
was 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 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 was given a 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 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 was 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 antitox1n.
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 was quite open, but a 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 or the magnitude u ~
ment." 1t would have been very easy for MIN 10
have ACQUIRED the reputation of a 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 MS
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 cllnched his
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 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 as to the value of his
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 a new theory Of medicine. Its prin-
ciple is revolutionary. 1t 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 it.
Regardless of all doubts and theories said
DR.. 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 anti-toxins are scarlet
fever, rheumatism, diphtheria, typhoid fever, dys-
EMERY, erysipelas, tetanus and certain forms OF
tuberculosis.
With chat 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. 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 1t, DR..
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 cure 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 in Bakerfeld 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 is firmly convinced in his
OWL mind that he has brought q 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
use of his remedies. That is one of the reasons
why those who have become acquainted with his
work in California believe in him so completely.