The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-12

blood poison. Being only little moi e than two years old, the remedy is yet too new for it to be known positively that
 its cures will remain permanent, but it is | believed they will so prove, if the remedy \ be propertly prepared before administeri ing and the administration be skillfuly
 done. and a reasonable after treatment te I employed to cleanse the blood of debris 1 and restore vitality to the patient. Very important, however, is it then that the l victim of the insidious evil should con- suit only a reliable specialist one we'll Fversed in the diagnosis, thoroughly com petent to determine the degree of infes,- II 1 tion, the conseryatively safe amount ofH the dose to be- given, the experience and
 the education essential in the technique of preparing the Salvarsan powder. thaIl proper skill for it's administration, and for directing the necessary after treat l ment. Being one among the first in ch taining a supply of the remedy. having placed an order several months in ad-1l vance of it's advent on the market in tfish country. I have now had little moreI1 than F months personal experience asl well as opportunity for noting the expeii- ence of others in the published reports l of it's use, and I desire in this article 10
 make known to the general public some facts which I think are of great import | ance and which trust will prove of much | interest to many readers. In some of the | early reports of the administration of Sal varsan I note that in good many inI1 stances there had followed much severeh l pain, nervous shock and some deaths, l though l have had no such 'aftermaths in H my experience so far, and now attributed | those unfortunate results to imperfectH technique in the preparation of the sal-H Narsan Tor administration, or to a lack1 of aseptic care on the part of those giv- l ing the treatment, However, the idea ha ! grown upon me that except in rare cases l it is much better to administer Sa1varsGn|
 in several ebroken' doses rather than in H | the "one shotl' large, heroic dose, as way| | first advised and practced In this man. \ ner l would minimize the pain, nervousl l disturbance, increase of temperature, anal l all likelihood of danger, and at the saneI time would obtain as good or better rel suits. and with little or no practical loss
 
 | best authorities and most successful sur-I geons in their reports of Salvarsar treat Fl | ment differ very much in their methods a M preparation and mode of procedure withq the remedy rF @ 1 shall not, however, attempt here toI discuss the merits or demerits of their| several theories and assumptions of SUI periority of the claims they set up, but l after more than years constant and careful investigation, experience and ob- | seryation, I feel such confidence in thel l merits of the wonderful remedy that a,nl willing to go on record as ascribing toll ii. value equal in importance to thatI of vaccine. and of giving to it's discovererI pedestal in the Hall of Fame not lower than that occupied by Jenner. for I be- lieve it will in time annihilate Specified Blood Poison throughout the civilized world. It quickly kills the Spirochoctes. stops the progress of the disease, and is, therefore. a prophylaxs to it's spread It is less objectionable to patients thanI the dsagreeable inunctions of mercuryI and the taking of large doses of iodide| of potash etc. It quickly heals old sores ulcers and unsilghtly eruptions that would| require weeks or months to amelorate| by the old methods of treatment. It canI l be taken by anyone at any place and| 1 thus it becomes unnecessary now for pa | tients to go to Hot Springs. It is les! hurtful than saturatipg the system witt mercury and potash. It is almost miracu.1 1 lous in at once subdung the most malig.| nant manifestations of the disease anal IAt.< lieve. prove more permanent or less like | ly to relapse than cases treated by the 1 old methods. Patients rapidly gain in i weight, strength and vigor after thel | treatment is taken, and the fact that sol few relapses have occurred after onlyI | one injection has been had, inspires mel
 to believe that when two or more injec l tions shall have been administered andI I a proper after-courss of hygiene and| medication prescribed and attended to, that the patient will be totally and ab- solutely dissolved from every vestise oil the germs. and it may in all probabilityI render ever afterward the subject im-| mune to a future contamination of the l malady; as victims of smallpox when| | cured of that disease become immune toI | a second attack. For these and other l reasons, my enthusiasm for Salvarsan is | very pronounced. Even now see thou | sands of my fellow beings rejoicing atI 1 their deliverance from the thralldom o insufferable mental and physical anguish and through my horoscope of the fu- l ture I see visions of day near at hand when that malignant incubus. mans most l in placable enemy. shall have not onlA| shall be utterly destroyed and thorough4 l'ly eradicated from the blood of all theH civilized races of men. Then fewer chill dren will be still-born, and the number of infantile weddings, dwarfs and idiots ushered into the world will be diminished every year. Insanity will become less l common, and many of the present day directions so often erroneously diagnosed as rheumatism, scrofula, psoriasis, etc
 as we'll as various nervous affections when in reality due to inherited or con traeted Blood Poison will be properly un- derstood and promptly cured. The pres
 ent height and weight of the men and women of the world will, I believe, be increased. Men will become more TO- bust and strong. The longevity of man.
 kind will be extended Married life will
 be more happy and more prolific In off
 spring and all succeeding ration. ! may in time by virtue Of Salvarsan be-
 come more physically strong and men,
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