CURE FOR CONSUMPTION
GOLD TREATMENT'S SUCCESS. London, April 1. "Two cases of galloping consumption have recently been cured at an L.C.C. hospital," said Mrs. Barbara Ayr ton Gould, a member of the council, speaking at Wandsworth recently. "We have done what has never been done in the world before," she added. "Galloping consumption is supposed to be an incurable disease." Mrs. Gould stated afterwards, "The cures are wonderful. They were carried out at the L.C.C. hospital at Highwood, Brentwood, Essex. When the patients, two boys, were brought in, X-ray photographs showed thatthey were hopeless cases. "Now, only a few months afterwards, one of the boys has been discharged as cured, and the other is well on the road to recovery. "The treatment includes a gold salt treatment, and these are the first cures to be achieved by it." Galloping consumption in children (writes a medical correspondent), is* a formidable complaint which, when the diagnosis is quite certain leads to rapid death.
Gold treatment for tuberculosis has been in use for more than 13 years, but so far dramatic results have not been proved in this type of the disease.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume XXXII, Issue 4641, 18 May 1938, Page 2
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