TUBERCULOSIS.

Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17607, 9 November 1922, Page 10

TUBERCULOSIS.

——-♦ : SPAHLINGER TREATMENT. N.Z. SOLDIER'S EXPERIENCES. An interesting latter, dated September 21st, from a former New Zealander, Mr Robert Kerr, relative to the treatment he has been receiving from Dr. Spahlinger at Geneva for tuberculosis, have been received by the Mayor of Christchnrch. Mr Kerr states that he called to see Sir James Allen at Geneva, and told him he was one of the lucky fellows who were be\ng treaVed by Mr Spahlinger, the bacteriologist in Geneva, with "Spahlinger" vaccines and serums for tuberculosis. At Sir James Allen's request, he furnished Mm with a report for the use of the New Zealand Government, and a copy of that report (which the writer also forwarded to Dr. Thacker) was supplied by request to Sir Arthur SteelMaitland, late Under-Secretary for the Colonies, who Was investigating the Spahlinger work. "A Living Miracle." "I know about 15 other patients here in Geneva," adds the writer, "who are getting the injections of Spahlinger serums and vaccines, all with good results. One chap, a bank clerk from Vancouver, has been living with me for these last ten months, and both of us would have been under the sod long before this had it not been for the Spahlinger treatment. Visitors, including doctors and officials from nearly every country in the world have been coming here investigating eveT since I have been here, and I have been examined by no end of doctors, and they all say the one thing after having examined us,'and that is that Mr Spahlinger has got the cure. When Dr. Jones (St. Thomas's/ Hospital), Dr. Morris, and a Canadian doctor were examining my pal and me last April, Mr Spahlinger went out of the room to bring in another patient, and Dr. Jones turned to Dr. Morris and said, in my presence, '' Morris, he • has got it, he has got the cure without a doubt." The medical adviser to the English Ministry of Health said to me, "You are a living miracle," and an American doctor who was with him said, "I am satisfied with this treatment." Pour doctors examined me the day before yesterday, Dr. Napier Jones (England)j Dr. Willey (South Australia), and two lady doctors. There is an English lady l)r. Geneva with us. I meet her repeatedly at the laboratory where I go to get the injections. She has made a marvellous recovery, but then we have all done or are doing the same. I myself would have been a record case, for when I was examined •'by Dr. Stephani towards the end of November, they reckoned I w/>uld be finished with the vaccines and cured in January, but about the middle of December I got that blessed malarial fever. Mr Sphalinger was in London, and contract-ed-pneumonia himself, and they had to stop the vaccine injections. When Spahlinger got back and about he came round. and had me examined, and changed me over to the "partial serums," and kept'me on these until he had the partial vaccines ready. Now I am getting these and awaiting the complete vaccines, which are not yet ready. Sir James Allen told me he had got some partial serums, and had sent it out. with Dr. Mclnytre for lung treatment, and that a few days ago he had also received some partial serum for surgical work, and he was sending it out to New Zealand. Two hospitals in Montana \ (Switzerland), Dr. Stephani's and Dr. Hudson's, are both using the serum and vaccine, and have had the same good results. Treatment of New Zealand. s"Mr Spahlinger is about 40 years of age, and has been working on this for twenty years in his own private laboratory, I and. has spent something like 80,000. dollars on his work.. He was. in the London hospitals in 1912 and 1013, carrying out successful tests, on about 40 patients under Dr. L. Williams and Dr. Colbeck, of Harley street fame. ' When I went to London the Colonial Office doctors wanted me /to go into a sanatorium in Surrey, but aB I could not get the Spahlinger treatment, I went; and saw Dr. Leonard Williams, Harley street. He told me he had cured every patient with the ; Spahlinger vaccines and serums that he had used them on, but I would have to go to Geneva to get the treatment, as there were no Spahlinger serums and vaccines to be got in England. Williams fixed things up with Mr Spahlinger to treat me, and here I am, ana mighty pleased to be here, and cured, too. I sincerely hope that any other ex-Service men or nurses who are suffering with T.B. in New Zealand will be able to receive the Spahlinger treatment in the very near future. Mr Kerr's Report. The report supplied by Mr Kerr to Sir Jameß Allen is as follows: "I was born in New Zealand in 1.876, volunteered and went • to the South African War, and took my discharge in South Africa in 1902. Went to British East Africa, now Kenya Colony in 1916, and joined the East African M.T.C. Served in British East Africa, and also German East Africa, and previously had enjoyed good health all my life. Was taken ill at Dar-es-Salaam, German East 'Africa, towards the end of 1917 with pleurisy, and also malarial fever. Second attack of pleurisy 1918, and two attacks of Spanish influenza 1918. Severe cold about October, 1919, and could not throw it off. Dr. Kauntze, Nairobi, located a cavity in the apex of the right lung about Christmas, 1919, and also discovered T.B. in June, 1921 entered the Nairobi European Hospital with pleurisy, malarial fever, and tuberculosis active. Was medical-1 ly boarded and discharged from the Colonial service as unfit to follow my occupation as engineer, Veterinary Laboratory, Kabete, Kenya Colony. Was told by my doctor that there was no cure, and I left Mombassa end of August, 1921, and developed a severe cough coming through the Bed Sea. (Two passengers died on the boat through excessive heat.) Decided to come to England and see Mr Spahlinger. Was examined by Mr Spahlinger and Dr. Stephani. Tests taken

"id mmlned bv ww «l Hth. Nigkt .*««£££* 0«i i reined ay. »pid 1921, when I develoD*^?? lll * I 1 and waa la bed nlu* 2 ; 1922, with .JB^a*S over from vifldMh a«2!' ** »• to combat' , per dajT\^ . FebruaryhadheartUbkSa quinine to 10 m&u [ steady p^ grW s B S r »fe]( , turns, and was examiarfSS ; diß6n.(MbhtryorßJ?^ on account orVheart J?A* i ceiying « partial*» Sf^ every third day, andSJi don) and party on,ApMl and was pronounced•«aft'--L* i. Ned on the injectioitt 01-i<S serums, and received ■•&&§, J tial» vaccine.on Jm>m-aW , received these injec&jMl present, September 12tt : «i" . fourth day, andth<Bß.sKi IhayefeltanewniMLujTSl . "gain™ my^uai m&M ■ certain had it not !>s£s fortunate breakdown fever from December lffitJS [ 1922, that I would haVVartS _ last February and back it il rica long before tMi,: 12S that both the vacdaei that I have been [ as "partial" vaccina Ui'%ll serums, and acting sd(p| jSffl ' Mr Spahlinger, I&m ' until the '' complete";^i(j t ii3S [ made. lam then . of injections of [ mune against any fflrM.tlllß tuberculosis. Itlrny-ijiSaß visit my native ' .next year, andl will ihnnhaM t ed to undergo."any tion. Ido sincerely Jiom M«| , New Zealand Gdvenimal:M i aß L very near futMe ; be^^;'rfiiM . cinea'to combat \ culosis off the fiM"i|^frjM|