The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-07-18
a / NEW DIABETES CURE New York Physicians First to Treat That Disease With
 Bacillus Bulgaricus CULTURES CAME FROM PARIS Used Tn Other Diseases. It
 Was Found They Also
 Lowered the Sugar Index
 In Diabetes.
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 The announcement in Sundays Times of the advance that has been made in the treatment of diabetes by the use of the recently isolated bacil- Jus bulgaricus aroused great interest In medical circles, and Dr. J. w. Rev- eridge of the Cornell Medical School pointed out that while it was Dr. Metchnikoff, the famous French scien- tist and author, who first isolated the big, blue-Staining bacillus and gave it to the world within the last year, it remained for a group of New York. physicians to demonstrate it's value in the treatment ofs diabetes. They had received the culture from the Paris laboratory, and were using it in the treatment of some diabetic patients for It's cleansing effect on the alimentary tract when they discovered with no little satisfaction. that in the cases where it had been used there. was a marked lowering ofSthe sugar index.
 Dr.. Beveridge was very careful to avoid an indiscriminate use of the word cure but he spoke enthusiastical- ly of the new culture as the only medicine ever brought forth that would strike at the sugar index, the disting guishing diabetes condition. He was asked just how far he thought the use of the word cure was Justified from the results obtained thus far in the brief experiment period.
 In eases of diabetes mellitus, where in pathological changes have not ta- ken place to too great an extent, a great deal can besdone in lowering the sugar index" he said. sIn fact, in eleven cases so far treated that have length of time, and where the sugar index is now absent, the cure has been complete, and if the patients every now and then submit to an examination and, if necessary, resume medication foria short period, I believe that they will remain in the normal state re- gained through this new treatment"
 Dr. Beveridge, having done work at the Loornis Laboratory at Cornell, be- leves that great good can be accom-. plished through an early. and wide use of the easily accessible culture by physicians all over the country. to the end that 5000 or 10,000s eases might be reportedd as the basis for more thor ough conclusions than possibly can be made on the sixty-odd cases So far available.
 'Diabetes,' he said yesterday in his office at 40 East Forty y-flrst Street, lis a diease of metabolisn1, wherein the glycogenic or sugar function of the liver and pancreas has become impair ed. The causes of diabetes are not positively known. Some authorities. claim that severe mental worry, eX- treTne nervous shock, and heredlty playssa very important part. Others show that hardening of the. arteries unduestionably causes changes in the pancreas. liver and kidneys. But all the authorities, without question. feel more or less confident that for some reason the physiological chemistry of, the alirnentary tract is vitally at fault.
 Heretofore the only practical pro- gress that has been made in keeping z. f.- M fairly normal state have been through a restricted diet, by eliminating the carbohydra or sugars and starcheE from the patients food. as in condi- tions of this character great excess of sugar is formed, appearing in the blood and alimentary tract and pass. ed sas such
 s.The severe toxic condition which arises when too great a quantity of sugar manifests itself has been one Of the problems in medicine unsuccess-. fully combated. Investigators both in this country and abroad have for years devoted their best efforts along this line. but it has been only very recently that any hope could be held forth to the sufferer from this dis ease by the recent results obtained through the use of the bacillus bulgar-i icus.
 Is"The reasons for this conclusion are very simple. MetchndkOH ana ms aS~. sociates have shown that in hardening Of the arteries the tactic acid ferment, bacillus bulgaricus acts to great ad- vantage, and they advocate the use of sour milk to prolong life. DR Her sschel of the Laboratory of Experimen tai Therapeutics at Harvard, in Q number of cases, has indicated the great benefit of the bacillus bulgaricus in the intestinal disorders of. young children without any resulting harm whatsoever.
 t'In diabetes there always is intense intestinal putrefactfon, and a quantity of indol, phenol and skatol and their. derivatives are formed. besides con. siderable sugar. Now, when the ba- cillus bulgaricus enters into the ali- mentary tract it acts directly upon the sugar and forms nascent tactic acid, annihilates the putrefactive forming microbes and directly aids na- ture in overcoming the severe toxic condition which is always present.
 'FThis reaction in the Alimentary tract has been proved to act in ben eficial manner beyond a question of doubt by Cohendy. Tissier, Metchni- koff and others, Based upon this ac- tion, some of our men in this city al- ready have demonstrated that won