The Washington herald., 1920-07-04
Paris Doctors Inject Mysterious
Salts and Cure Tuberculosis;
Sensational.Results Giuen Out

bacteriologically are also confirmed
by X-ray examinations of the lungs
The patients we treated were not
subjected to any special rest cure.
Usually the treatment was given
while they continued their work.
Or, as in two cases where the dis
ease had come to such a point that
a rest was necessary-one being
that of a baker. the other that of
a glassblower-the patients were
able to take up their usual duties
after a very short time.
Some patients improve very rapid
ly. Others must continue the treat
ment for several months. But in
any case, the patient should remain
under the physicians observation
for periods running from six to
eight months.
1t is evident that the greatest
care must be taken in applying the
treatment, which consists in intra-
vascular injections of solution of
. per cent of sulfate of samaritan,
neodymium or praseodymium. These
three rare mineral salts. whose ac-
tion Is very similar IL not Identical,
may be used undiiuted or mixed one
with the other in. varied proper
tions. Injections should be made
every day or every second day, and
the dose carried progressively from
2 to 4 or 5 per cent Of the solution
About twenty consecutive injec-
tions are given. Then they are
stopped for about twenty days.
After that a second series of injec-
tions is administered. followed by
another pause in the trea tment,
which is completed by a third series
of injections.
Unfavorable Reaction Rare.
The treatment does not as a rule
produce any unfavorable reactions.
The evening of the first injection
the patients temperature may rise
slightly, that Is, about two or three
tenths of a degree, and he may feel
slightly fatigued for the first two or
three days. Then the fatigue passes
away. Patients whose constitution
is exceptionally weak are more
liable to fatigue than others. but
even in such cases this feeling dis
appears during the period when no
injections are given. Weak patients.
however. should be given a smaller
dose.
Treatment Despite Fever.
At the present time the treatment
should not be applied. to patients
who are feverish ~or hemoptoic.
Fever lisa counter-indication, as
subjects Inclined to fever react less
favorably to the -treatmeit than
others.
However. under certain conditions
and by taking many precautions, in
jections may be continued in spite
of fever. as in the case of a young
man who had been suffering for
about year from consumption. He
showed all outward symptoms of the
disease and was growing rapidly
thinner.
A nrst injection of rare salts
caused a chill. followed by fever.
which disappeared the following
day. The day after we gave him
several injections of very small
doses. These had no evil effects,
while his general condition improv-
ed and splitting stopped almost en-
tirely. But this technique must not
be considered general. rule. The
greatest caution must be exercised
whenever fever sets in. At the same
time 1t Is possible that small initial
oosine viii permit more general
Va hhC ueAIme MT.
Must Regulate Treatment,
The greatest care must be taken
to control the patients thermic re-
action At the present stage dosing
Is matter of practise and cannot
be rigidly prescribed. 1t must be
regulated gradually.
Intravascular injections of salts
Of ceric earth or rare salts. when
applied to pulmonary tuberculosis,
undoubtedly occasion. however.
general Improvement Of the patients
conoition, decrease and usually dis
appearance of coughing and exnec-
toration. drying up of LESSONS coms
pleted by morphological alteration
and diminishing virulence of the
bacfili. The treatment accelerates
scierose and consequently the cure
Of consumption. =. -