SPAHLINGER TREATMENT.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19904, 25 September 1926, Page 19

SPAHLINGER TREATMENT.

o REFERENCE IN THE COMMONS. ■' UTTERLY UNPRACTICAL MAN." (Feom Opb Own Cobeespondent.) LONDON, July SO Several months have now elapsed since the Spahlinger treatment has been publicly mentioned, but during the discussion in the House of Commons on the Ministry of Health vote the subject was again referred to. Dr A. V. Davies said he believed that ultimately the treatment for consumption would bo found in vaccina. He recalled

that several medical members o£ the House went last year to Geneva, and, after a thorough inspection, they came to the conclusion that Dr Spahlinger had made out a prima facie case for his method of treatment of consumption.. The difficulty was that, although Dr Spalinger was a man of tho highest character, he wa« utterly unpractical, and it had been found impossible to come to terms with him, and lie had refused £250,000 which was offered to him for his methodof treatment. Dr Spahlinger and Ids family had spent the whole of their fortune of £BO,OOO for the good of humanity, he had no money at all, and ho was living from hand to mouth. There was a possi-

bility that (his man had in his possession a, remedy (or consumption, and it seemed tragic that, because of his idiosyncrasies, no means could be found of bringing his remedy to the notice of the world generally Hs appealed to the Minister of Health to look up the records of the cases that Dr Spahlinger had treated, and suggested that he should allocate £60,000 or £IOO,OOO to be handed over to trustees for the development of thi« work The country was spending £IOO,OOO a fortnight on tuberculosis, and th ) sum was email in comparison to the purpose that might he achieved. He only wished that he (Di Davies) could be Minister of Health for 2) hours to enable him to do whet lie bad suggested.—(Cheers.) Dr Shiels vEdinburgh, K., Lab.) said that the Mm.ster should Keep an open mind 'n regard to any possibility of acquiring the Spahlinger treatment. He asked tho Ministry of Health to urge local authorities tu procure installations for treatment of tuberculosis by light, a method which had long passed the experimental stage. Mr Ammon (Camberwell, X.. Lab.', said he ■nrrd’ir.! that the real reason whv the Spahlinger treatment was not better known was because the. only tenne on which this eminent scientist would deal were those rf receiving money without undertaking to tieliver tha goods. It was utterly impossible to do business with him.