The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-10-08
new TUBERCULIN
is A REAL CURE
PiOrkOWski Turtle Culture Is
Proved to Have Merit.
PHYSICIANS MAKE REPORT.

Months-No Toxic Effects.
In the current issue of the New York !
Medical Journal Drs. William j. Beat
tie and Edward L. Myers make Il full
report on the Relative Value of Tur-
tie Tuberculin In the Treatment of
tuberculosis"
DR.. Beattie on his arrival in this
country a few months ago brought
with him quantity of tuDerculin di-
| rect from Piorkowski, in Berlin. He
| thoroughly instructed DR.. Myers, 4
New York physician, in its use and
| left a quantity of the culture with
| him. Since that time the two have
been working quietly, but separately,
with the tuberculin, using extreme
care to see that Il premature report Of
what they We're doing did not spoil
their work
| DR.. Myers has now published the
full statement of his results in con-
| junction with but entirely independent
OF the observations made by pr Beat
tie. Both physicians are certain that
the Piorkowski culture has very def
mite and certain merit.
What Tuberculin Is.
| According to the report. turtle tn
berculin is n clear, port wine reddish
brown liquid, containing the products
of the tubercle bacillus of Il certain
species of turtle"
Recent Investigations with turtle
tuberculin in Piorkowski's laboratory.
made by Or. Beattie, have shown that
tubercle bacilli when grown in the
blood serum of turtles cold bIooded
animalsl change quite distinctively its
meteorological characteristics. partic-
ularly III lessening its virulence and ut
the same time increasing It's power to
form antibodies in the blood of tuber
culous patients.
The report says:
Numerous experiments on animals
and the treatment of a large number
of cases have confirmed the absence of
any toxin effects. Owing to the care
full methods of preparation of this rem
edy there have hitherto been no in
stances of inluration or abScesS; there
have only been slight infiltrations,
which subsidized very satisfactorily.
The most striking clinical results
] have been the rapid subsistence of fe-
Y yer. night sweats, pain in the chest
and other pains. Very soon there is
I an increase in weight. appetite returns,
: and the feeling of fatigue disappears. .
o Not all eases of tuberculosis are suit
ed to this treatment Advanced cases
5 and moribund types of the disease sell
: | Il CHI Tho
g more suitable cases are ut the begin
ming of lung, gland, throat and joint
varieties.
Il About twelve hours after the injec-
< ton the patient experiences 4 feeling
of lasSitude and languor, the tempera.
r ture rises from 90 degrees to 100 de
z grees Fahrenheit. the appetite dimin
c isheS, but mt the end OF twenty -four
hours the patient feels as Well rs be
fore the injection.
+ Improvement Often Rapid.
In gland cases Improvement Is notice
about three weeks after the first in
lection. THE glands gradually becom,
smaller. ana where there is a diScharg
ing sinus the secretion progressivel!
diminiSheS the opening becomes small
er. and the sinus finally closes up. ant
the temperature gradually returns t,
: normal. The patient gains i'll weight
=, his appetite improves, and feeling o
!, buoyancy replaces that Of languor AM
- lassitude,' the report says
Joint cases improve in about fou
weeks. and this is evidenced by in
- crease in motion and decrease of swell
:, ing and pain. Patients with pulmonar
tuberculosis require six weeks befor
- the cough loosens, The pains begin t
j disappear and the appetite improves.
II Continuin" the report says:
THE treatment is usually continue
until all objective and subjective SYM
- toms disappear, which is generally
i from six to nine months. The dur;
% ton of the course varies with the STAG
of the disease and the type of til
"a case. Glandular and joint cases usua
a ly respond in six months.
b. THAT the effects produced are dr
on to the direct action Of the tuberculi
and not to any mental suggestion hay
nd been proved by the beneficial reSul
ON obtained in children too young to I
nut influenced by mental suggestion.
he "To prove that turtle tuberculin
III the one cause of the beneficial efrec
produced patients treated can
ng shown where pleasing results ha'
as been obtained in cases in which 9th
50 methods of treatment have complete
failed"
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