FIGHTING T.B.

New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12194, 20 July 1925, Page 12

FIGHTING T.B.

“SPAHLINGER A GENIUS" VIEWS OF MEDICAL M.P.’S. LONDON, July 3. “It will be a calamity to humanity' of the greatest magnitude if,Dr Spahlinger’s establishment has to be sold to pay his debts,” said Dr T. Watts, a member of the party of Parliamentary medical meij who visited Geneva. He presented a report to the House of Commons recommending that a national effort be made to raise £IOO,OOO to meet a hank overdraft, to enable re- ; searches to he continued and serums and vaccines produced in sufficient quantities to make an exhaustive test.

“There is no hope of the British Government finding the money, but a newspaper campaign would soon raise it, thereby saving for the benefit of humanity the fruit of 25 years’ most important scientific researches.

“The doctors who accompanied me to Geneva—Dr Davis, a Conservative, and Drs A. Salter,, D. Shields, artd J. H. Willia’ms,' Labour members—are convinced that Spahlinger is a genius. He' is the most wonderful scientist we have ever met. He possesses ■ remarkable originality in research. “We examined 50 patients whom'Dr Spahlinger had treated.. He cured some a decade ago, others two months ago, and some recently. Among them were an Australian and a New Zealander, both of Tvhom were completely cured. The former declared that several doctors had examined him recently, and had not discovered any trace of tuberculosis.”