A CONSUMPTION CURE.

North Otago Times, 23 October 1905, Page 3

A CONSUMPTION CURE.

Dr Von Hiring, who, according to recent cables, claims to hnve found ft euro for consumption, is a JWrasnr of the University of Marburg, in Germany, nnd has ton investigating consumption for ■ m ,nv years. As the result of. his researches', 'he has put .forward the theory that infection is mainly conveyed by the nliiMtary trnnt instead of the* respiration ' tract; and this principle he enunclntedin his lecture at the seventy-fifth meeting of naturalists and physicians in Cassol in September, 1903, when he emphatically asserted that the milk fed to infants was tho chief 'wise of consumptinn-nol hccause the milk fed to Mints was at all ' worse than «ny otter, Imt tho human infant, l»e «» Vo** 0 f all other mammals, was destitute of the protective agencies in his alimentary system, which at a later period otl.fc prevent tho entrance of the disease (terms into his tissues." Dr Bchrinst and his .fellow worker, Dr Homer, conducted a iran„te series of experiments'for years i-,e<ore thev arrived at (his conclusion, using Jlyhorn teals, calves *hwW other laborlory animals. Frafesoi Behring has ahsolutely provo.l the immunisation of cattle from tuberculosis. • sold a Sydney medical man to a Writmlative of the Daily Telegraph. At the same time, this doctor, wh, has follower Uchrin»'s work closely, pointed out a curious fact in tho scientist's experiment's with cattle, namely, that he has been actually winp;, not, bovo-vac-cine, as stated in a recent entile message hut a strain derived fronl .human tubercle baci'li, employing two different strengths /or the purpose. Bovine tubercle, it was found, was too virulent, and killed the anininls. " It is too early vet to o\prrs= «n opinion in. the absence of tMirils," was tho doctor's reply when h-i was asVpd what he thought of Professor flehr- \ injr a claim to have discovered a cure for .. 'consumption. OtM medical men made a Jtke ropjy.