The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1917-06-22

Ye -. Rogers, formerly surgeon
Cook County hospital. Chicago 20 years senior pro-
fessor of surgery in the National Emergency hos
ptal, and first president of the American Cancer
Research society,"
Technically this new treatment is known auto
hemc 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
ical Research. He reported to the society the
results of his six years of observations treating
patients with serum made with their blood
ms base. The doctor treated all classes of pa
tients whose troubles apparently due to
faulty blood and his results In general were de-
clared to be remarkable. In the ten months that
have elapsed since the autohemic treatment was
made public the serum has become recognized as
discovery important the achievement Of
DIR. Alexis Carrel 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
1t Into 10 times much sterilized distilled water.
After ncubatng IT at fever heat for "a hours. fur
ther dilutions made according to the needs Of
the patient. which be determined only by
physician skilled in its use. When ready for in
1ecting the serum is colorless odoress 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-
termne its contents.
, Twenty TO thirty drops of the serum solution
thus prepared injected into vein under
the skin. II may also be given by mouth, but not
with certain results.
There seems to be no limit to the number Of
diseases and complaints for which this new treat
ment Is beneficial. 1t is easier to enumerate those
conditions for which 1t Is not applicable. Troubles
mechanical, organic, or of acute meteorological
origin and those clearly recognized as incurable
are not expected to be benefited by 1t, although
few of these appear to yield.
The solution has been termed the "Antiazy
Serum" because 1t primarily has the energizing
qualities that do away with nervous fatigue, while
greatly increasing physical and mental endurance.
To Illustrate: The fourth day after treatment
a Woman walked ten miles and was not as tired as
she had been previously after walking only half a
mile Saf '
Another case In point that of n man gener-
ally conceded be the LATEST person in his COM
munty He drank about 20 "whiskes' day. but
after the administration of the 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 n 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 n 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 he could not
remember before taking the treatment.
Most remark results have been obtained
when the administered to expectant
mothers and II Is in this field that Doctor Rogers
expects the greatest good to be accomplished
through the autohemic treatment. 1t Is his belief
that II 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 have
treated n large number of expectant mothers with
the new serum there has yet to be reported case
in which relief not obtained from those
troublesome complaints common during this
period Furthermore, In series of cases OF
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 a death among the SERUM babies,
although some now five years old
II was while spending the winter OF 19o9-10 In
Paris and London that Doctor Rogers became In