New Ulm review., 1922-11-08
Home Health Club
DR.. David H Reeder, LaPorte, Ind

Dengue Fever; A disease Of many
names. The most common OF all is
break-bone fever. It is sometimes
called dandy fever, neuralgia fever and
acrodinia. 1t is epidemic in nature
and is usually confined to tropical or
semi-tropical counties, but occasion
ally is found farther north dwoTd
Nearly all Of the Older medical.
writer's frankly admit that they do not
know the cause nor the cure, but all
sicknesses have cause and nowadays
we are not content to admit lack OF
knowledge so we have found that
Dengue, like malaria is not due to
bad air but to the pestiferous little
mosquito that sneaks up without any
warning whatever and while quietly
stealing a lunch from some exposed
portion of your anatomy, leaves
poison which, altho homeopathic in
quantity, developes into an illness out
of all proportion to the cause. The
disease is seldom fatal but in many
cases it is so severe that the entire
constitution is so weakened that good
health is never regained.
The old Thompsonian system OF
herb remedies have been successfully
used in many cases but the average
physician of the past quarter OF
century has been practically helpless
so far as drug treatment is concerned
and most of them have simply played
safe and gave a laxative, letting the
fever run it's course, which is not OF
long duration. l consider it of little
help to the patient to go into details
of symptoms. Most people know too
much about symptoms and not enough
about causes. In this case the cause
is a noiseless mosquito, therefore fight
the mosquito. Prevention is far better
then cure. During the last ten years
a system of treatment has been ex-
tensively used by the more progressive
members of the healing profession ard
it is called auto-therapy. No drugs
are used for this kind Of treatment.
Instead, the physician prepares either
some of the patients own blood or
some of his own secretions and uses
this according to the indications OF the
case.
This system of therapy is absolutely
safe, cannot injure the most delicate
patient and is always helpful. In fully
900 of the cases, eruptive orcther
fevers, it is Immediately curative. 1t
is especially to be used when patients
have not made complete re-
covery from an attack of dengue. 1t
is very easily used by any physician
who understands the technique. Dur
ing an acute attack about one drachm
of the sputum is secured in an ounce OF
distilled water. This is incubated at
blood heat from 2 to 20hours and then
it is put through a Berkefeld or any
other germ proof filter. The filtrate
is kept in sterilized, glass stoppered
bottle for future use for that patient
only. By injecting from 20 to 60
drops of the filtrate under the skin,
preferably of the left arm, prompt
reaction is secured which usually
terminates the attack and leaves no
evil after effects, altho the arm will
be a bit sore for few days.
In those cases where the attack has
passed and the patient has not made a
full recovery the physician will take
about Is drops Of blood from the vein
in the ann and this also he will put
into sterilized distilled water, and
after proper treatment rein)ect 1t
plus water, into the vein. The pro-
cess is painless and I have used it In
many hundreds Of cases, always with
decided benefit and complete elimin-
alton of the toxins from the system.
Bv this process the hemoglobin or red
blood corpuscles is restored with the
fighting or resisting capacity and
health is quickly made normal.
l believe in helping the physicians
as we'll as to teach the laity. l have
taught many physicians the technique
of Auto-therapy, greatly to the ad-
vantage of their patients, but my great