Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1917-06-22

V~ ID. Rogers formerly surgeon at
Cook County hospital Chicago, 20 years senior pro-
fessor of surgery in the Nations. Emergency hos
ptal, and first president of the American Cancer
Research society.
Technically this new treatment is known as auto
hemic therapy, which means treating your blood
with your blood The process first became
generally known last year, when Doctor Rogers
read paper before the Chicago Society of Med
zeal Research. He reported to the society the
results of his six years of observations treating
patients with serum made with their own blood
as base The doctor treated all classes of pa
uents whose troubles were apparently due to
faulty blood and his results in general were de-
clared be remarkable II the ten months that
have elapsed since the autohemc treatment was
made public the has become recognized as
discovery as important the achievement of
DR.. Alexis Carroll who the first to transplant
human organs.
Autohemic therapy is especially remarkable be-
of its simplicity. Briefly, Doctor Rogers
treatment consists in taking five drops of blood,
or some multiple of five, from vein and putting
IT into 10 times much sterized, distilled water.
After incubang it at fever heat for "A hours, fur
Their dilutiOns made according to the needs of
the patient which can be determined only by
physician skilled in its When ready for In
:iecting the is cooress, odorless and taste
less. Doctor Rogers is also authority for the
statement that he has not been able to find any
physiological chemist sufficiently skilled to de-
terrnine it's contents.
Twenty to thirty drops of the solution
thus prepared are injected into vein under
the skin. It may also be given by mouth, but not
with as certain results.
There seems to be no limit to the number or
diseases and complaints for which this new treat
ment is beneficial 1t is easier to enumerate those
conditions for which it is not applicable. Troubles
mechanical, organic. or Of acute meteorological
origin, and those clearly recognized as incurabe,
are not expected to be benefited by It, although
few of these appear to yield
The solution has been termed the "Antilazy
Serum" because 1t primarily has the energizng
qualities that do away with nervous fatigue, while
greatly increasing physical and mental endurance
To illustrate: The fourth day after treatment
IA woman walked ten miles and was not as tired as
she had been previously after walking only half q
mile
Another case in point that of man gener-
ally conceded to be the LATEST person in his COM
Inunity He drank about 20 'whiskies" day, but
after the administration of the serum he began
TO do regular hard manual labor. This was about
the first real work he had done for six years
His rheumatic pains left him, he needed a cane
no longer, his appetite returned, insomnia was re
placed by sound, refreshing sleep, his weight in
creased five pounds and his general appearance
changed from that of ''bum" to that of Clean
wholesome, bright and honest workman Previous
w. too he had suffered from loss of memory, but
after taking the serum he could recall the names
Of many old acQuaintanceS whom ne cOuld not
remember before taking the treatment
Most remarkable results have been obtained
when the serum was administered to expectant
mothers and 1t is in this field that Doctor Rogers
expects the greatest good to be accomplished
through the autobemic treatment It is his belief
that If the treatment comes into general use the
birth of physical and mental detectives will be
reduced 90 per cent, and infant mortality from
congenital weakness. the greatest cause of death
among children, will be wiped out.
Although Doctor Rogers and his associates hare
treated q large number of expectant mothers with
fine new serum there has yet to be reported case
I'm which relief was not obtained from those
troublesome complaints so common during this
period. Furthermore, in series Of cases or
mothers who had previously borne children. the
average duration of suffering with the birth of the
serum baby was three hours, while with the for
mer children without serum the average was IL
hours Still more wonderful and more important
is the fact that children whose mothers had treat
ment few months before their birth are stronger
and healthier mentally and physically, than other
children of the same family who did not have the
benefit of this autohemc therapy. There has not
been reported death among the Serum" babies
although some are now five years old.
1t was while spending the winter OF l909-l0 in
paris and London that Doctor Rogers became in