The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1935-05-17

In highly technical 4S page
paper treating "the. scientific and
clinical Importance of the progeny
Of the tubercle bacillus" DIR Ma
her, who represented the United
States at the International Tuber-
culosis Conference at Rome in
1928, offered his formula to the
medical profession as ''the way In
which can do the most good to
humanity"
II am no longer young" he said,
"and am anxious that before I
die the beneficient power of A. r.,
the progeny of this avian tubercle
bacillus, should be available to
every suffered from asthma"
Waterbury Case Quoted
/ The white-haired portly scien-
fist, who aroused the medical world
in November 1888 by announcing
he had discovered a method of
Transforming tuberculosis germs
into harmless bacteria which in
turn were used to combat virulent
germs, introduced to the commits
sion and visiting physicians. Miss
Catherine Sweeney, Waterbury
telephone operator, who, he said,
was cured of tuberculosis through
administration Of A. Y.
However, he claimed astham
"sometimes could be cured within
"a hours"
Sleep Soundly All Night
patients who had not been able
to pass a single night in long years
without jumping out of bed to
struggle at window for air." he
said, "slep soundly all night, re-
freshed in the morning land by
continuing the nightly doses of the
bacterin for a few weeks they no
longer are victims of asthma"
He discovered A. Y, he said,
while making a culture of nom
acid-fast avian tubercle bacilli by
depriving q strain of tubercle ba-
cillus Of its waxy capsule and fore
ing it to grow at room tempera-
ture.
Made Discovery
some day I removed flask of
glycerine broth culture of this
non acid fast avian tubercle bacil-
lus from the incubator and put it
aside at room temperature
| for further study. A week later !
examined it and to my surprise
found that the non-acid- ba-
cilli had disappeared and had been
replaced by small yeastoid masses
of acid-fast .coccoids and short ba-
cilli in fields of non-acid-fast coc-
CT and diplococci.
ct made subcultures on many
varieties of media and found in all
| of them the same mixture of fields
Of non-acid-fast coccoids and
round clumps of small acid-fast
rods, in other words pure A. Y.
None of these subcultures had any
harmful effect when injected
alive or. heat killed-into guinea
| pigs or rabbits"
DR. Maher said he drank several
bottles of the bacterin without i'll
affect and administered the serum
to patients.
| Reductions showed greatest
when tuberculosis was complicated
by bronchial asthma, leading him
to restrict its use mostly to asthma
cases, although a small proper
ton of the treated tuberculosis pa
! tients improved in every way and
are now enjoying good health"
| Doctor Answers Critics
| New Haven, Conn, May IT,
| (UP).-Dr Stephen ]. Maher, noted
| tuberculosis authority, today an
swered critics of his broad claim
he could positively cure 80 per
cent Of all asthma cases." by Of
! fering the testimony of patients
| and physicians who have used his
newly discovered formula and al
lowing scientists to conduct their
own experiments with the serum.
II think got off pretty easy
after making such an astounding
statement" the scientist said. after
reading several criticisms by well
known New York physicians.
81 am prepared to back up
every word said before the Con-
necticut tuberculosis commission at
Norwich yesterday" said the aged,
white-haired scientist, who has de-
voted S5 years to. the study Of tu-
berculosis.
Offers Formula Free
81 am offering the medical pro-
fession by formula free so that
others may prove to their own sat
isfaction that I have not exag-
gerated by claims. have the
statements of patients who have
been cured and of physicians who
have used the bacterin, that it has
done all that I have described"
DR. Maher related to the commits
sion late yesterday he had discov-
cred culture Of tubercle bacillus,
which he called avian yeastoid,
which not only cured asthma, in
most OF the cases he treated, but
opened a wide avenue Of research
as to its application in cases Of st.
Vitus dance and insanity.
| The bacterin failed In asthma
cases, he said, only when given to
| patients who had been long users
Of adrenalin or who had refused to
break this habit.
Answers DIR Nfaher
/ Regarding a statement attributed
to DIR Morton c. Kahn, associate
professor of public health and pre-
ventive medicine at Cornell Medi-
cal College that 1t was impossible
to grow the progeny at room tenn
perature or at 81 degrees cent?
grade. DR. Maher said:
Anyone who has ever conducted
experiments along this line is
aware that this is not impossible.
have done it,"
in its administration.
Hopkins said the program rep
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