CONSUMPTION "CURES."

New Zealand Herald, Volume L, Issue 15482, 13 December 1913, Page 9

CONSUMPTION "CURES."

MEAT-JUICE AS MEDICINE. Parts, December 3. A " cure" for consumption is announced by Professor Charles Richet, a Nobel prizeman. He says that the treatment is difficult, but its effectiveness has been proved. The method of the " cure" is as follows :— The patient must go every day to a slaugh-ter-house and get 101b of fresh rseat. He must then extract the revivifying juicas from it. "This is a long and tedious task," says the professor. " Ten pounds of meat yield about half a pint of juice, which should be conserved on ice. My patients who are suffering from tuberculosis of the lungs were cured by this treatment, although it had to bo faithfully followed for three years." The professor admits that the " cure" is costly, but says it is certain in all but advanced cases. He does not believe that any serum exists which can cure the dread disease. Another Parisian scientist, Dr. Albert Calmette, is trying to induce the Government to give a party of scientists an uninhabited island off French Guiana, where experiments on monkeys may bo made with a new vaccine. Dr. Calmette says he lias injected this anti-tuberculosis vaccine into calves, and has then given them food with which the most virulent Koch baccili have been mixed. He has also inoculated them with the baccili, pumping hundreds of millions of germs into their veins, but those calves which were vaccinated did not contract the disease. Post-mortem examinations failed to reveal the slightest traces of the affection. He admits, however, that his experiments are inconclusive as to what effect the treatment would have on human beings, and for that reason he wants to experiment on monkeys.