The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-08-17

? cleansing effect on isolated wounds
| Besides a pronounced action was al
| so manifested on glandular tissues
which became active with small
| doses.
From these results I became con-
| WINGED that sugars ought to have q
most signal effect upon pulmonary
| tuberculosis. 4
THE solution of sugar injected
| under the skin of patients suffering
from pulmonary secretions rapidly
brought about diminution in the
quantity Of the bronchial secretion
thrown off until it was 50 reduced
that there was none.
1.-THE proof that the drying up of
the bronchial secretion is due to the
action of the sugar is demonstrates
by the fact that when the injections
are suspended the quantity Of the
secretion increases; when they are
resumed it diminishes.
Good Results Obtained.
"On my advice the results Of these
observations were at once applied at
one OF the base hospitals by DIR. Lu-
cherini on soldiers suffering from
specific bronchial pulmonary trouble
in advanced stages and they showed
the pest OF results.
After 1 had established The, ener-
getic action Of sugars on bronchial
secretions, / undertook other expert
ments to see if the treatment, con-
tinued for long periods and begun at
various stages Of the disease, would
result in modifying the anatomie and
clinical conditions Of the lungs.
From the observations Of cases
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founts of the secretions were re-
duced or the quantity of the secre-
tions diminished, when examined
clinically the lungs did not present
pronounced bronchial dilatations; at
the same time, as long as these le-
sions existed at all, the secretion
diminished but did not cease.
Diminution Has Effect.
The cases we have treated have
not yet been sufficient to establish a
complete clinical regimen for this
therapeutic method, but from now
on it will be more and more utilized
until an exact regimen has been es-
tablished, The gradual diminution
of the bronchial secretion and its
final disappearance in arresting the
progress of the disease and on the
vitality and ,fecundity of tubercle
bacilli. The remedy also tends to
arrest the degeneration Of the pull
monary tissues and of all other COM
plications which are the cause Of the
formation of cavities and other
phenomena of incurability.'
LAT the same time, other parts Of
the lungs are relieved from the add
ed work imposed upon them by the
presence of a large quantity Of Sc
erection, and are gradually able to
return to their normal, tranquil
function.
THE general adoption Of the use
Of sugar injections in tuberculous
patients has also q great prophylac-
tic advantage. 1t has been noted
that one Of the principal causes Of
the spread Of tuberculosis is due to
the respiration Of the person af-
flicted and by his election of sputum;
both breath and sputum contain the
bacilli, which live and develop long
after the secretion has dried. AS
the use of sugar injections dim
lnfshes in the quantity of secretion
which is elected in both breath and
sputum, it follows that the field for
the activity Of the bacilli is reduced
and, with it, the danger of infection,
Moreover, the action Of the sugar on
the secretion has been found to
sterilize both breath and fsputum
and to reduce to minimum the
period of infection-in other words,
shorten the life Of the bacilli."