Lower coast gazette., 1913-07-05
Tropics Furnish Tubercular Cure.

EXPERIMENTS covering a wide field in
Central America have demonstrated
that poisonous venom from certain rep
tiles. and especially the crotaius horid-
us. or rattlesnake, will arrest the
progress CT tee tubercular baclilus anu
ultimately destroy It, at the same time
~effecting a healing Of the lung tissue
destroyed, according to a statement
given out by Charles G. Second. NJ. D.
Phi. G., Of the University of Nebraska,
who has been in charge OF tee expert
mental work. Or. Second spent Wed.f
nesday in New Orleans en- route to
Washington, end was a guest at eseI
Hotel Grunewald. 4
DR.. Second said that the theory along
which he had been working WIS also
being worked out by other scientists in
different parts OF the country and
Europe. He modestly agreed, however,
that to the best Of his belief no other
scientist has taken the work so far as
to arrive at definite conclusions which
are capable cf being practically worked
out. Unlike DR.. friedman, with his
turtle vaccine, DR.. Second declared
that he will make pubic his discovery
and that it shall be used for the ben
eft of all mankind.
"During the past three years have
tested the cure and found it efficient"
he said. 81 have experimental with
many snakes and spiders, injecting the
venom secured into animals and, after
wards, persons, In no case has there
been a bad result, but, to the contrary,
every patient treated has shown
marked improvement from the first
day of treatment and many have Eeen
cured
The venom, DR.. Second said, is
|hyperdermicslly injected into the arm
of the patient ard that each injection
consists of minute particles OF the
poison OF the reptiles, a dose consisting
; of from one half to one miligram, &C
cordine to the stage Of the disease and
, the strength Of the patient. It would
5 require from one to two grains to pro-
duce death, he explained.
The venom from the small black
I spider found in Latin American cour-
tries and familiar to every traveller In
2 the tropics, DR.. Second declared, pos
sesses curative powers in the treatment
of tuberculosis and certain nervou:
diseases not found in any other remedy
The spider is the little black r will
s a small red spot in its back, and sup
!. posed by all natives and foreigners t
t be nothing less than the black death.
"When the venom is extracted from
the living reptile it is subjected to a
eyaporating process ard the dry resi-
e due is the part employed in the treat
m<nt. being soluble in glycerin an
q water.
It ~ recently treated a male patien
e suffering with advanced syphlhtl
phthisis and persistent and profus
10 blood splitting" DR.. Second said, I'll
Ia was given half a milligram of Tire Yer
IS ON, injected into the arm. It cause
pain and swelling around the puncture
extending to surrounding parts in
few hours. However, in forty-elgf
!. hours all cad effects had disappeared
: cough and expectoration greatly in
=, proved and lie had gained in strength
With two months he was able to IT
,s sumo light wcrk.
nAncther case selected for exper
, mentation was that OF a man OF
N years Of age, who was in the secor
stage of phthsis. He showed dullne'
IA in the upper half Of the right lun!
- with mucous and sibi!ant rales over Il
:, same area, while a eyere cough 81
much expectoration, dyspnea, depre
SIGN and anorexia attended. Stryc
nine, quinine, bypopfcsphates, ced NV
1T oil, nutritious diet ard rest failed
bring sabout an Improvement in
condition. Following injections OF u
j. venom, however, his recovery W
H. rapid, and for q year he has been al
to follow his vocation Of making shoes
DR.. Second declared that he h
demonstrated to his own sat!sfactl
that the venom Of the most despis
,at and feared reptiles contain som
cd natures most subtle and useful serul
,ar -~"useiuI,' he said, "as a practi'
Nd specific for some Of the most dread
ed diseases
IN The venom, DR.. Second said,
md been used by him successfully in !
treatment of neuralgia of the I'll
o,- nerve, in cervicai-brachial neural!
q a and other diseases of the nervous 8
on. tenn.
lido Epilepsy can be erred by the !
Of snake yemen, and perniclons blk
ms poisons and malignant fevers may
successfully treated by its judicl'
zoe. use."
DR.. Second said that he will put
result Of his discoveries before
.lls medical profession.
-. In a certain mining town there
physician who is nest heartily 10