The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1913-02-07
Tuberculosis Serum
Or. J. n Burgan, a Former Miibank
Boy. Attracts ths Attention ot
the Medical World

discovered, and which it is claim
ed IS being successfully used by
him IN treatment The Henne-
pm Medical society has been so
tavorably impressed with the
virtue of the serum that it has
invited, Dr.. Burgan to appear
before that body and reveal the
details Of his work to the society.
The serum is being tested on
patients in the Minnesota hos
pltal. and it is said to have had
remarkable results The article
says:
Close study OF nature aS well
as following the medical sciences
was responsible for the serum.
according to Dr. Burgan The
principal things that set him to
work on the serum were
knowledge that swine are the
only animals that eat like human
beings
His neIiet that the primary
cause of tuberculosis is in low
erlng OF the resistance OF the
! health bodies OF the blood
tll~ belief that Il serum could
be made from the swine which
Would be non jllitaut
These theories DR.. i,urgan ac-
ceptrd Sooa after leaving college
and though he has been com
peIled TO sacrifice the general
practice OF medicine except
enough TO pay his living eApen-
Se> whit" engaged at hlS work. he
he has cIung to them and worked
"lth them a tine basis Of his re-
search
Convinced now after ms serum
ha> been tried that he was right,
DR.. Bur-an today said that il it |
j. proved hs tie medical profes
sion that he is right the battle !
against other diseases will prac
ticaily be Wou
l,e>lStance to other bacilii can
Be built az, he declared today.
just a> II i bUiIt up against
tuberculosis
Tuberculosis i my tight al
at tIis time, however. sad DR.
Bu2@an n am giving my at
tentjon to that alone and if ne
can win out in that we will 90 to
other things 1t may take few
years thorough testing by phvsi
clans to prove whether | am
right or whether | am wrong.
What we know now is that we
are getting gratifying results and
we are encouraged.
That there is little or no hone
Tor far advanced cases OF tuber.
culosis is the declaration of Or.
Burgan.
We cannot build new lungs
though we can build up the health
bodies, he said. After the
disease has wasted the tissues.
wasted many Of the health bodies,
there is nothing left to build up
and even though every tubercu-
losls germ IN the body Of an adj
vanced sufferer were killed. he
would never be we'll He would
not have the machinery to sus-
tain for long, such part of his
system as was left
Asked today if he intended fol
lowing the example Of a ST. Louis
physician who declared he would
match tuberculosis treatments
with Dr. Friedrich Franz Fried.
man of Berlin who announced
that he had a serum that pro
duced the rapid disappearance
OF symptoms. Dr.. Burgan said he
had not the funds to travel about
the country matching serums
and that he has no argument
with any Other physician or bac.
terioiceiSt.
II will work right on with my
own serum and If someone else
gets a treatment that shows
startling results, | will keep on i
until have proven that mine i
right en- wrong he said
Dr. Borgan told today la a
genera way ho" hi~ ~erum /,
made
~ arran4ement> WITH Dean
Albert I Wood> Of the aoricuI.
tural college the swine are kept
,nnocu0atea and Wiaed there.
"l'fe pig : resistance. his
health bodies, are first built up
50 that he ha> as many resistance
units N each health body as we
can give hun. said DR.. Burgan.
Then he is inoculated with the
bacilli. The bacilll do not give I
the disease to the animals be-
cause Of the high resistance.