The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-06-23

The merits of this new treatment have been veri-
fed by many progressive physicians in various
parts of the United States, some of whom have
acquired a practical knowledge of the system by
attending medical conventions in Kansas City, st.
Louis, Chicago, st. Paul and New York, where
Doctor Rogers demonstrated and explained his
method. Others have become competent in using
the method by visiting Doctor Rogers and taking
a personal course Of instruction under him. Some
idea as to how this method is being received by
the profession may be inferred from the fact that
within two minutes after completing his demon
|stration before the annual convention of the Amer
lean Association of Progressive Medicine at Kan
sas City, Doctor Rogers was unanimously elected
president of that society.
Perhaps the most remarkable instance Of a cure
vet obtained by means of autOhemic therapy was
the case of a trained nurse, whose trouble was
diagnosed as Hodgkin's disease, generally consid-
cred incurable. During the three and a half years
preceding her visit to Doctor Rice, a physician
whom Doctor Rogers had instructed in autohemlc
therapy, the patient had had five operations one
for appendicitis, one in which the stomach was re-
sected, and three for removal Of glands. She had
lost % pounds from her normal weight and could
neither eat nor sleep sufficiently to keep up.
After the first autohemic treatment on October /,
1916, her condition began to improve so rapidly
as to astonish even Doctor Rogers himself. A
second treatment was given a week later, and at
the end of the third week she seemed so perfectly
well that treatment was discontinued. After an
interval, however, of six weeks, there were some
indications of the return of the enlargement of
the glands. Four other treatments a week apart
were given, and since that time there has been no
trouble of any sort. The patient regained all her
weight, and is today the picturesOf health.
In speaking of autohemic therapy, a prominent
New York physician said 1--WE all have known
the therapeutic value of blood after developing
certain antitoxins. Ali our artificial serums are
products of blood serum. Modern medical science
would be unthinkable without this weapon to fight
the manifold diseases TO which human flesh Is heir.
with all this knowledge, does it not seem
strange that only now in the year 1916 the curative
value of our own blood for our own blood for our
own Ills has just been discovered, or, speaking
more accurately, been brought TO our attention ?
Many of us are no doubt like n certain great
scientist who, when this new discovery, autohemic
therapy, was brought to his attention, said: This
is absolutely scientific. For n long time l have
known the facts upon which 1t is based, but !
never thought of their practical application
doctor Rogers discovery is not only a revela,
ton, but a revolution, in the method Of treating
q large percentage of the ills of humanity. The
applicability of this treatment seems to be CO.
extensive with the function of the blood, and is
capable, therefore, of acting upon disease in any
part of the body in which the blood circulates, nc
matter in what form the complaint manifests
itself, nor what name we give to it."