SPAHLINGER SERUM

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19038, 7 December 1923, Page 5

SPAHLINGER SERUM

AN ENCOURAGING REPORT.

PARIS SURGEON IMPRESSED

Press Association— By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, December 6. The Daily Express’s Geneva correspondent states that M. Charles Gosset, - a professor in the University of Paris, who is recognised as one of the greatest surgeons in the world, pays the highest tribute to M. Spahlinger’s serum. Ha gives details of a senes of remarkable cures in cases of tuberculosis of the bones and glands, which are usually treated surgically, in which tuberculosis lesions were replaced bv perfectly healthy tissue. He says that these are quite sufficient to prove the efficiency of the serum in cases .of surgical tuberculosis. It would be absolutely criminal to hinder its general adoption. He says that the Spahlinger serum must be used on a large scale in hospitals, where every doctor can observe the changes in the tuberculosis lesions; but it must be remembered that it will take M. Spahlinger four years to prepare the serum even if he gets efficient help.—A. and N.Z. Cable.

SIR NEVILLE HOWSE UNFAVOUR.

ABLE.

MELBOURNE, December 6.

Sir Neville Howse, referring to the report that the New Zealand Government was negotiating with M. Spahlinger, said that he had carefully investigated the evidence submitted to him during his recent visit to the Continent, but was unable to recommend the Commonwealth Government to spend any money on the treat, ment.

APPEAL FOR £56,000.

LITTLE ENTHUSIASM EVOKED,

(Fbom Oub Own Coebespondkkt.)

WELLINGTON, December 6.

The statement made (according to the Press Association cable message) by Dr Collinsand the generous impulse of the jNew Zealand High Commissioner in regard to the Spahlinger treatment have evoked little if any enthusiasm here, and it will not be easy to raise the £56,000 which Sir James Allen asks for unless the Government supplies the large sum, and to this there is likely to be objection owing to the financial position of the country and the uncertainty in regard to the alleged cure. It is also pointed out that neither Sir James Allen nor Dr Collins are experts, and that the Government should have sent an expert if it wished to make independent investigations, the opinion here seems to be that at present the £56,000, which it is proposed to give Dr Spahlinger, would be better spent in the purchase of radium for New Zealand. In addition the report of Sir Neville Bowse, V.C., a very shrewd and able man, who will be remembered by New Zealanders who were on Gallipoli, seems to have acted as a cold douche, in so far as the enthusiasm of the New Zealand Commissioner is concerned.