ARTHRALGONICON.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 10659, 12 May 1906, Page 5 (Supplement)

ARTHRALGONICON.

NEW TREATMENT FOR RHEUMATISM AND NEURALGIA.

Rheumatism and neuralgia are perhaps two of the most intractable diseases with which the medical man has to deal. Dr Caesare Ballabene, late staff captain m the Italian Army Medical Corps, read -a paper before the London Therapeuti'caf Society dealing with a new remedy for these diseases and all gouty affec; tions. Acting on the supposition that rheumatism was due to an infectious element or poison m the bfoo'd produced by some unknown organism, Dr Ballabene set to work m 1892 to find a remedy for this poison. He believes he has discovered one, an inoffensive remedy with amylic and benzoic elements, which he declares produces prompt beneficial and lasting effects.

Dr Ballabene has come from Rome to bring his treatment before the medical profession of Great Britain.

His preparation is only used by means of injection into the muscles, the injections taking place once daily over a period of ten or twenty days according to the severity of the attack., The injections do not produce any irritation, nor do they lead to any inflammation, and can be made over and over again without harm. . Usually, Dr Ballabene asserts, five or six injections suffice to subdue' any recurrence. The- Greek appellation of arthraigonicon has been given to the remedy, the term meaning vanquisher of pain m the joints. In contains no trace of any of the usual remedies for rheumatism and gout, and acts by combining with the urig acid in' the blood, making this very soluble and so enabling it to be more easily eliminated from the system. Dr Ballabene also holds that the drug acts m another way — that it destroys the toxines or." germs flowing m the blood. Here is the important factor m the drug— it kills the disease, whereas the usual remedies for gout and rheumatism merely relieve symptoms. Cures, it is claimed, -have been effected on patients ranging from six to eighty-five years of age, and many were effected so long as eight years ago.