GOLD TREATMENT.

Hawera Star, Volume XLIX, 16 November 1929, Page 3

GOLD TREATMENT.

CURE FOR- CONSUMPTION. Gold is being injected into the re W of patients suffering from tub-eresulosi at England’s largestJiospitaLfpr cor I smnpt-ives, Brampton Hospital in Fw ! haiu Road. ~ : The salt of gold is combined wr sodium and’, is- a Danish discovery cal e-d san-ocrysiin. Other ©old com-pounc have been tried in Germany for fit-nun her of years, and have not been, aocep ed as of a definite curative value, bi English physicians have turned to tl new compound with fresh hopes -since ' wa-a first heard of some fiv-e years ag< “Jt is- too- soon to give an opinio on the value of sanocrysin,” an offiei: of the Brompton Hospital' told a “Elrening News ’ correspondent, “bi one has certainly: had a number of ei couraging results. “We have been using it for ®om little time—but only in conju-nctio with other forms of treatment. Tube: cu-lpsis i-S such a- chronic disease that is only after investigation over a nun her of years that an opinion as to. tli effects: of a treatment can. be estimated “Whether there: is definite improv< merit in the patient’s state one cannt always say if the gold or another trea' nient is responsible. Moreover, if yc were to treat two almost identic cases 'in the same wav ahe«might djo .ire while the other might not. So muc depends upon the resistance of eat constitution of the disease. '.V“The tubercle bacillus is a very lug ly resistant organism,, and is destroy! only by strong antiseptics. . Therefor it is very difficult to find somethin which will help to destroy the bacilli without damaging the patient. “Were tuberculosis a disease - limited duration like pneumonia, \ should be able to tell more definite about this gold treatment, but, as yo know, the .normal course of tuberculos i:s measured not in days but ? months.” . ,—- Sanocryisin crystals come-irom Dei mark in tiny sealed flacks: A suifieiei quantity for a- small dose would lie o a «i x-pomiy-p-iece. . They are whit needle-like crystals' with a faint, go! sheen, and catch the light like gems. Before use they are dissolved in dii tilled water, and’then injected straigl into a vein in the patient’s foreami.. .