The Alaska citizen., 1911-02-20

cursed with this deadly plague. but it was no more than six years ago that the bacillus causing it was discovered Since that time the eff forts to eradicate the disease, which for scores of years had been meeting with but indifferent success. were redoubled
 The story of the success which has been accorded to the efforts of one man. Dr Paul Ehrlich, of Frankfort-on.the-M Main. Germany. is the most amazing of the wonders of modern medicine He has discov- cred drug which yields the highest percentage of cures of any drug known in the treatment of any serious disease. There is no doubt or question about ii, for the exper- fence of reliable doctors in Austria. in Germany. in Russia and in America has demonstrated the cure to be an accomplished fact
 In the last three months of last year more than four thousand cases have been treated with Dr Ehrlich's s specific. which he calls "606" because it was worked out scientifically af- ter laborious progress through G05 previous attempts These cases show record of 92 per cent. cured with a single injection. More than 200 doctors have treated these cases and it was the rare exception when a second injection was necessary, all but the most desperate cases be- ing cured at once. and all being benefited. In single day the dis ease has in all cases been arrested more than in year by the old methods of treatment.
 The story of "6O6" reads like a romance. To such an extent is it considered romance that most of the cautious American medical jour nals have been afraid to devote too much space to it. In Berlin and Vienna, however. the greatest medi- cal centers of the world the jour nals and even the daily newspapers have gone wild and are printing whole pages about it and it's discov- erer. Doctors are flocking to Ehr- lich from all over the world and three men are constantly engaged merely in answering his mail. And the giving to the world of the news of the discovery is unlike the ill- fated announcement of Dr. Koch's tuberculin. Dr. Koch caused tuber- culin to be given to nearly every body who asked for it; it was sold for money to incompetents and rais- pitilessly to earth. Ehrlich, how ever, has permitted only reliable doctors to handle his drug till the experiment stage was well passed. and in all the different countries where it has been tried the experi- ence has been identical.
 Some time in the very near future "606" will be placed on sale in America. It is patented to prevent harmful limitations, but not a penny of the profits will go to Dr. Ehrlich himself The doctor is already well off, and he will give half of the profits to the Speyer House, the experiment laboratory where he con- ducted his researches, and the other half will go to a firm of manufac- turing chemists which has spent thousands of dollars for Ehrlich in this and other experiments with no thought of gain.
 Millions of dollars are today being invested in this most holy of war fares, the fight against mans impla- cable foe, disease The enemy is slowly. inch by inch, being driven back by the combined power of money and brains. Foremost among the generals is to be esteemed Dr. Paul Ehrlich, for he. apparently, has succeeded in subduing one of mans most virulent enemies.