Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-17
PARES|S CURE IS
AIM OF DOCTORS
Newark Physicians Declare Pa
tients Show Great Improve
ment Under New Treatment.

The recent announcement that sal
WARSAW has been used to advantage
in the treatment of paresis, more gen
orally known as softening of the
brain, occasioned no surprise among
several Newark physicians who have
been using salvarsan in cases of
paresis and studying its effects for a
number of months past.
DIR. George B. Gale, medical director
of the Bancroft Sanatarium at Butler,
this State, and DIR. Otto Lowry, con-
sulting physician, $40 High street,
have been working together in the
use of salvarsan in the case of sew
eral patients for the past six or eight
months, and most encouraging prog
ress in the way of complete cures
eventually are reported by them.
Paresis, so medical scientists now
state, is caused solely by blood dis
ease that Is one of the scourges of the
human race. and which has always
been classed among the incurable dis
eases. Paresis as a direct result of
this disease does not follow at once
after a person is infected. Instead
the poison lies dormant in the blood
for a long period of years, usually
about fifteen. and then manifests it
usually follows inside of three years.
Dr. Lowry. whose work consists
mainly of scientific experiments for
| himself and other physicians along
the lines of those conducted by the
Rockefeller Institute of Medical Re-
search in New York city, was loath
4 to talk about the new uses of sal
varsan as a cure for paresis.
DIR. Gale Tells of Results.
| DIR. Gale, who had years of expert
ence in the treatment of mental dis
orders, was willing to talk of his OBJ
servations little more freely than
| DIR. Lowry. He said he had been OBJ
serving the effects of salvarsan in
several cases of paresis, both of which
seemed hopeless when they first came
to his attention.
DIR. Gale said: 81 first commenced
to use salvarsan as a cure for paresis
several months ago after discussing
the matter with DIR. Lowry. The
method of using salvarsan, which IL
an arsenical preparation that will not
destroy the animal cells, but viii
sterilize the bacteria that infests them
is as follows: A proper amount Of
salvarsan is first injected into a weir
of the patient in the same manner al
the injection of any drug. After thu
salvarsan has had time to become
thoroughly mixed with the patients
blood some of the blood is drawn
from the patient.
This blood is then treated to get rio
of the corpuscles in it, and when thi,
is finished an injection is made into
the spinal canal of the patient. The
injection is made well down on thu
back in the lumbar region, and il
practically painless. The injection Of
salvarsan, of course, causes changes
to take place in the human system
but i'll effects seldom follow it wher
carefully administered.
Injected into Spinal Canal.
"By injecting the salvarsan charged
serum of the patient directly into TIL
spinal canal the curing agent is thu
placed where it reaches directly int
the part of the brain affected in pa
! resis. In the cases I have under m.
own observation / hope for complet
| cures, and If this proves true a won
derful advance in medical science ha
been made, as the death rate in pa
rests cases UP to the present time ha
been practically 100 per cent"
DIR. Gale, while enthusiastic abou
the results so far attained, is YER
conservative in his statements as t
the ultimate value of the cure. "W
really have not as Yet had a chanc
to use the treatment long enough I
demonstrate its real value" he sal
:, today but we do know this. that i
: the cases where salvarsan has bee
used in the treatment of patients suf
fering from paresis wonderful i'm
provement has been shown, such won
derful Improvement, in fact, that W
have hopes that the final result wi
be q complete mastery of this drea
: affliction,
with a disease of the brain wher
} the death rate has been practically 10
; per cent, IL by the use of salvarsa
we are able to save a single sufferer
/ something for the good of mankin
has been accomplished"