Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-07-01

] have not hesitated to tell the
truth, and to admit that certain dis
eases that were supposed to he
easily cured were among the most
difficult to get what is properly
called cure, that is a genuine cure,
not simply to allay symptoms, and
TO cover up the disease for the time
being.
This was especially true of spe-
cific blood poison. Nothing is SO
amena BILE to treatment that seems
to cure as this. Cases are taken
on a guarantee cure basis, and by
pushing medicine into the patients
pretty strong for month or so the
symptoms will generally subside and
then the doctor discharges the pa
tient as positively cured, gets his
fee, and doesn't care a snap what
becomes of the patient in the fu-
ture.
Undoubtedly l have lost many
fee by being frank and candid with
patients about this.
When the new, or so-called new,
remedy, 1905" or Salvarsan, came
out / did not hesitate to tell the
public the truth about it. | was not
one of those who rushed off to get
the first supply. and to assure pa
tients that one dose was a cure.
Those who advertised the fake
violet ray" cure for structure, would
start out with one dose cure for
blood poison, when l came out
frankly, and told the truth q bout
it, they, to use a phrase of the
street, "hedged" on it, and said that
one dose would often cure that two
doses was quite sure to cure, and
that it was seldom but what one or
two doses was a positive cure.
The consequence has been that
my office gets every day patients
who have had these promises made
to them, all of which I knew to be
l never thought for a moment t
were without benefit, but | told in
1t was not perfect and it would be o
a new article would be brought out
sos This has been proven to be
put "914' or Neo- Salvarsan on the
Speaking of Blood Poison, it is
Salvarsan. or the majority of the /
French preparations of arsenic in |
AS matter of fact, all of them
are good, but the people are mis-
taken in thinking that they are
positive cures They only allay
symptoms. which is an important
part, of course. fer when a man
comes in all liberated it is neces-
sary to get him rid of that as
quickly as possible But what |
object to is some doctors telling
the patients when they are free
of this that they are now cured,
when q 5 a matter of fact this is the
time that they need the most care
full and thorough treatment.
As matter of fact, it isn't ind
ing out the proper remedies to
use for these diseases S much as
it is how to handle them with
scientific precision that gives the
best results. This is what counts
in this practice. Take as an in
stance SOC" 1t isn't merely giving
the medicine that gives US the good
results
1t is the examination of the
blood. finding out what the effects
of the medicine are, by certain
tests which can only be made in
the most thoroughly equipped lab
oratorv. The microscope does not
show it, but certain tests have got
to be made, which take expensive
apparatu to do 1t, and must be
done by trained laboratory work
ers and psychologists.
With an honest desire to do the
very best work that is possible to
be done. | thoroughly equipped my
self for this, and say without hes
itation that | have the best equip
ped office south of the Mason and
Dixon line. And [ know that we
are able TO do in this office what
heretofore has only been done in
large cities like Chicago and New
York.
Take. for instance, the serum
treatment. AS I have said about
800, 1t is not a question of sim
ply giving the medicine, 1t is a
question of finding out what the
results are. not by the clinical ex-
perience. but by the laboratory
tests.
Right here come in some very
interesting points, for in the use
of these serums,. when they first
came out it was in only one case
out of fifteen or twenty We got
anything like beneficial results
The reason why we did not know,
we were at 4 loss, but through
such laboratory workers like
Metchnikoff and Wright we are