SPAHLINGER RECRUITS.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 184, 6 August 1925, Page 11

SPAHLINGER RECRUITS.

SIR JAMES ALLEN'S FAITH.

RECEIVES NEW SUPPORT.

(From Our Own Correspondent.) LONDON, June 30. Sir' James Allen's' faith' 1 in the Spahlinger treatment has received new and unexpected support this Week at a meeting held at Crewe attended by Cheshire landowners and farmers, the object of the gathering being to coisider the results of the Geneva experi-. ments, and to take some action with a view to focusing public opinion on the question. The meeting heard the testimony of Mr. R, G., Lovell, who lias been for several years associated with Mr. Spahlinger in the work at Carouge, Geneva, and by- two medical members of Parliament who had made recent personal investigation of the treatment and its results on the spot. Both doctors assured the meeting that t'ncy went on their mission with .open minds, and returned absolutely converted to the belief that the Spahlinger treatment was the one cure above all others destined to eradicate tuberculosis from the human race. The connection between tuberculosis in human beings and bovine tuberculosis was more farreaching than was generally supposed. ] Dr. "Watts, M.P., remarked that in countries where children did not drink milk in any large quantity tuberculosis was practically non-existent, ?In the Spahlinger method," he added, "we have a positive means of stamping out tuberculosis in cattle." Dr. Watts, who was in Geneva last week making the latest of several visits, j said he bad come back absolutely con- j vinced that in, Spahlinger's work they | had something very different from any other pretended' cure. It was a serum treatment differing fundamentally from others in that from the. first isolation of the * tubercule bacillus Henry Span-1 linger had recognised the probability, I and afterwards proved the existence of at least 22 strains of the bacillus, pro-' duced by as many different environments. His sera were prepared accord- j ingly, to counteract the 22 different and J distinct microbic poisons with as many • different antidotes. The vaccine was usually obtained from black horses of the Irish hunter type. The antigens produced by 20 l years of labour by Spahlinger were combined to form his complete serum. The tragedy to-day was that Spahlinger was only in possession of seven of these antigens, but even with that partial serum simply marvel- , lous results were being Obtained. i Dr. Willaims, M.P., said Be went to Geneva without previous knowledge of ,the "treatment, and had come back thoroughly convinced that it was the . one cure for consumption. What was ' now wanted was the opportunity to test j. the cure in England. Mr. Lovell, a friend and colleague of Mr. Spahlinger, made a special journey from Geneva and explained to the meeting that the universal acceptance of the remedy was checked by the Great War, and subsequently by scepticism and also lack of funds to enable Mr. Spahlinger to make further demonstrations. Monopolists offered him a quarter of a million sterling and half the profits of, the formula, but he refused because he . placed human need before private gain. | Mr. Spahlinger was a genius, .a I humanitarian, and a great benefactor of the whole human race, although some people thought him a crank; Mr. Ernest Craig, M.P. for Crewe, who presided, announced the receipt of a donation of 500 guineas from' Mr. Arthur Palethorpe. London, and 100 ffuineas from Mr. Thomas Forty, Westrn-super-Mare. to further the aims of the meeting, and a committee was appointed to carry out the recommendation of the report prepared by' the six experts who investigated the treatment at Geneva. ;.-. i