SPAHLINGER METHOD

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 19, 23 January 1926, Page 13

SPAHLINGER METHOD

ASTOUNDING TESTIMONIES

"WE ARE DEALING WITH A

GENIUS"

RTATMENTS BY MEDICAL INVESTIGATORS.

(From Our Own Correspondent.) LONDON, Ist December.

About 250 representatives of insurance committees, health authorities, approved societies, etc., along with medical officers of health, tuberculosis officers, and others interested, drawn from nearly every town and district in Lancashire, attended a ' meeting at Preston, called by the Lancashire Insurance Committee to hoar addresses from medical men who have investigated the Spahlinger treatment for tuberculosis.

No resolutions were moved, it being understood that the delegates would report to their respective bodies with a view to seeing if anything can be done to help the production of Spahlinger serum and vaccines. Mr. J. W. Rawstron, chairman of the Lancashire Insurance Committee, presided, and the principal speakers were Sir Bruce Bruce-Porter, Dr. V. Davies, M.P., Dr. Thomas, Watts, M.P., Dr. Leonard Williams (London), and Dr. Harry Jones, president of the Monmouth Division.Medical Association. SIR ALFRED MOND'S SUPPORT. 'In a letter expressing regret at his inability to be present, Sir Alfred Mond wrote: "I am heartily in support of the campaign you are making to raise funds to purchase the Spahlinger Institute. • The amount of money is not large, and it is a remarkable thing to me as a business man that we should spend a million pounds a year on sanatoria and hesitate to spend s twentieth this amount in order to see whether we cannot make that million pounds a year unnecessary. When you are dealing with the terrible ravages of tuberculosis it seems almost criminal that there is any hesitation oh the facts before^ us to embark on an expenditure of £50,----000 or even £100,000." Mrs. Roscoe Brunner, apologising for absence owing to a chill, said she meant to put every ounce of energy she possesses into this campaign for a long period, and was taking a few days' rest so. as: to begin it with all her forces about her in. every sense of the word. Dr. Watts said he went to Geneva in a measure prepared to scoff, but after investigation left there absolutely convinced that Spahlinger was a genius, and had something totally different, and very much more important, than anything every offered to mankind before for the relief and cure of this terrible disease. A VERY DUTICTJIiT MAN. It had been said that Spahlinger wti s crank, charlatan, and a moneygrabber. He waa nothing of the sort, it he had wished to make money he could have been rich to-day beyond the dreams of avarice. He had steadily refused money. He had spent the whole of a considerable private fortune in farthering this work, and at the present moment had got to the end of his tether, and unless something was done quickly there was a great danger of the whole thing falling through. They were not dealing with an ordinary individual but with a genius, and a genius was a very difficult man with whom to carry through business transaction. He and his colleagues who went to Geneva traced a definite 80 per cent, absolute recoveries, which was very different to 14 per thousand in this country, and the cost would be something like one-fiftieth of the cost of our sanatoria treatment. If the Spah- j linger Institution was seized by mortgagees and sold it would be a tragedy to the whole human race. He himself had seen, a score or more people who would certainly have been in the grave two or three years ago had it not been for the Spahlinger treatment.- A remarkable fact was that those results were being obtained with partial sera. The sera was 22 in number, and only eight were available. If. they had the complete sera he thought they could get 100 per cent, cures. ONLY TO BE DESCRIBED AS MIRACULOUS. Mr. Davies said the cases the deputation saw at Geneva were well supplied in every way with medical history and records sufficient to satisfy any medical man. After investigations the Commissioner came to the conclusion that the results they had seen could only be described as marvellous, while if the records produced were genuine, then the cases could only be described as miraculous. They had no hesitation in saying that if those cases had been in England they would .every, one have died. ; On the afternoon when they were leaving Geneva they went to see two caaes,_a man and woman, very seriously ill indeed, and came to the conclusion that even after seeing the marvellous results in other cases these two could not be cured. It now transpired that both were recovering very satisfactorily. Dr. Salter made a very careful examination of the Spahlinger laboratory and reported that everything was carried on in a thoroughly scientific manner. The contrivances were wouderf ully ingenious, and. he had no hesitation in saying that it was the most up-to-date laboratory ho had ever seen. The Commission was, satisfied that Spahlinger had effected 80 per cent, cures in advanced cases such as in England were virtually bound to die, and they knew of no.treatment on earth which would produce the results Spahlinger was producing today. A LOSS TO THE WORLD. Dr. Leonard Williams said if Spahlinger could not go on and finish his work something of the utmost valuo would be lost to the world. Nobodywould ever, be able to do what Spahlinger could do now. Spahlinger could prevent tuberculosis- —could so vaccinate peoplo that thoy could not take tuberculosis. He looked forward to the time when children would bo vaccinated for tuberculosis just as they were now vaccinated for smallpox.

Sir Bruce Bruce-Porter said it could not be said that Spahlinger's remedy was secret, when some 326 doctors from all parts of the world had visited his laboratory in the last four years, and if there had been any rea-

sonable idea in the minds of those people that Spahlinger was a charlatan and not working on scientific lines they would have amplo evidence of it in the medical if not in the lay Tress. The public were to be blamed for the attitude the medical profession took, because they expected something like infallibility from doctors, who could, therefore, not admit defeat in illness.

Dr. Jones said a meeting of S3 doctors in his division had decided in favour of Spahlinger.

Mr. Spahlinger's elusiveness was again demonstrated last month. He was to ha\ re come to England to inoculate the calves selected for the Crowe bovine test, but the month has passed and lie has not put in an appearance. Sir James Allen, who is tryiiig to find out what has happened, believes that the scientist has been diverted from hia work on the bovine serums, and has gone back to the preparation of human serums. Unfortunately, this is a very natural thing to happen. Spahliugcr would be easily diverted from the work of establishing his financial independence and turn to the relief of one human being who is in dire need. In the meantimp, however, the rest of the world waits. 85, Fleet street.