Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-09-02
DR.. 6. Koqa Of Toxic Gives Re.
suits Of Treatment of
Many Cases

When DR.. Gensaburo Koga OF Toxic
announced eighteen months ago that
ne was curing tuberculosis with in
iections OF a double salt ofscopper and
potassium cyanide, the medfea1 world
Was scepticaL n had been deIuded
too many times by announcements OF
"cures. for tuberculosis which exper.
ience proved TO be useless. SAYS the
New York world. But extended treat.
mont of several hundred cases in
seseraIt hospitals ii japan by DIR.
Kogs; DIR. Morisuke ptani. Prof.
Kitasato, DIR. Il. Takano and others,
proves It to be 50 successful THAT the
journal OF Experimental Medicine. oil
which Dr. Sinholf FIexner is editor
and the Rockefeller Institute for
Medical Research the publisher, de,
votes its entire August number to
reports upon it.
Chief among the items is a report
by Dir. Kosa on sixty-three typical
oases that have been treated With
cyanocuprol, as the new medicine
has been called. This is followed BY
an article by Morisuke Otanf OF the
Kitasat0 Institdte for Infectious Dis.
eases: on the clinical treatment OF
tuberculosis patients. Finally there is
a report by DR. r. Takano Of six
cases OF leprosy treated with cyano-
enprpl In the I.hai-yen eprosorium,
Toxic, all OF which show such marked
improvement that Hs1ooks as II the
discovery might prove a. cure for
lepresy as well as for tuberculosis.
Injected Directly into Veins.
Briefly, cyanocuproi tss an aqueous
solution OF potassium cyanide and
copper, diluted IN 1000 times its vol
utne of distilled. water. It is highly
irritating to the tissues and must be
injected exclusively into vein. Doses
are given at intervals Of two weeks,
varying in quantity according to the
form and stage OF the disease and the
age Of the patient. After the injee-
lions the patient aust have absolute
rest for three days afte1Hthe first,
seven days after the, second and
fourteen days after the third injec.
ton. slses
DR.. Koga's report shows that Of
nineteen cases ofa hoiasactitesa tubers
GHOSTS in the first stage; thirteen
were cured, two infproyed and three
were still under treatment and in one
the treatment was suspended or six
IN sfe second stage, three were cured
and three improved or four Id the
third stage one was cured and three
IMPROVED IN cases Of active tubers
ctilosis, of seven In the first stage
four were cured, two Improved and
one was still under treatment. OF
eleven IN the second stage three were
cured, ave improved, two we're stu
under treatment and in one tie treat.
ment was suspended. or eight in the.
third stage none was cured, three inn
proved three died and two we're still
under treatment or eight cases OF.
surgical tuberculosis one was cured,
four improved, one was still under
treatment and In two the treatment
was suspended. The total for the
sixty.threes cases is. TWENTY-FIVE
cured, twenty-five improved, three
died, nine under treatment, four
treatment suspended.
ROW SCteutioS bcTIUeS SuECo.
The term "curedv is applied by Dr..
Koga to cases that gained In body
weight, showed temperatures below
81 degrees centigrade, no, or. nearly
no, physical signs, the saliva free from
bacilh and the patients attending to
their regular work. Improved
means the same exeNpt that bacilli
are found occasionally in the saliva
and other symptoms are still present.
DR.. sKoga sums up. his results by
saying:
"A general review OF the cases will,
| think, Indicate that the Neparation
greatly improves or appareHkly cures
pulmonary and surgical tuberculosis
in the first and second stages and
that it seems also to- produce bene-
fetal effects upon the disease in the
third STAGE The duration of these
beneficial effects is stiti to be estab-
lished By more numerous trials and
many years of observation"
DR.. Otani's report is dated ten
later than DIR. Koga's. Hell