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

II. IOBeTS, IOTI0pTlY surgeon at
Cook County hospital, Chicago, 20 years senior pro-
fessor of surgery in the National Emergency hos
pital, 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 own blood. The process first became
generally known last year, when Doctor Rogers
read a 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 q serum made with their own blood
as a base. The doctor treated all classes of pa
tents whose troubles were 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
a discovery as important as the achievement of
DR.. Alexis Carroll, who was the first to transplant
human organs.
Autohemic therapy is especially remarkable be-
cause of its simplicity. Briefly, Doctor Rogers
treatment consists in taking five drops of blood,
or some multiple of five, from a vein and putting
1t into 10 times as much steriliZed, distilled water.
After incubating 1t at fever heat for "a hours, fur
Their dilutions are made according to the needs Of
the patient, which can be determined only by a
physician skilled in its use. When ready for In
jecting, the serum is colorless, 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-
termine its contents.
Twenty to thirty drops of the serum or solution
thus prepared are injected into n vein or under
the skin. 1t may also be given by mouth, but not
with as 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 it, although a
few of these appear to yield.
The solution has been termed the "AntilaZy
Serum because it 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
n woman walked ten miles and was not as tired as
she had been previously after walking only half a
mile.
Another case in point was that Of a man gener-
ally conceded to be the LATEST person in his COM
unity. He drank about 20 "whiskies' a day, but
he administration of the serum he began
ular hard manual labor. This was about
real work he had done for six years.
dmatic pains left him, he needed a cane
yer, his appetite returned, insomnia was re-
ed by sound, refreshing sleep, his weight In
Used five pounds and his general appearance
q anged from that of a "bum' to that of a clean,
q holesome, bright and honest workman. Previous
4 too, he had suffered from loss of memory, but
er taking the serum he could recall the names
many old acquaintance whom he could not
.member before taking the treatment.
Most remarkable results have been obtained
when the serum was administered to expectant
mothers, and it is IN this field that Doctor Rogers
| expects the greatest good to be accomplished
through the autohemic treatment. 1t 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 have
treated a large number of e%xpectant mothers witt
the new serum there has yet to be reported a case
in which relief was not obtained from thos'
troublesome complaints SO common during THU
period. Furthermore, in a series of cases o.
mothers who had previously borne children, thu
average duration of suffering with the birth of thu
serum baby was three hours, while with the for
mer children without serum the average was i
hours. Still more wonderful and more importan
IS the fact that children whose mothers had treat
ment a few months before their birth are stronger
and healthier, mentally and physically, than othe
children of the same family who did not have thu
benefit Of this autohemic therapy. There has no
been reported a death among the serum" babies
although some are now FIVE years old.
It was while spending the winter of 19O9-1O Ii
Paris and London that Doctor Rogers became In