CONSUMPTION "CURES."

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XL, Issue 13259, 18 December 1913, Page 6

CONSUMPTION "CURES."

» MEAT- JUICE AS xMEDICINE. PARIS, December 8. Professor Charles Richet, a Nobel prizeman, announces a cure for tuberculosis. He says that tho 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 slaughter-house and get 101 bof fresh meat. Ho must then extract the revivifying juices from it. "This is a long and tedious task," says th^ 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." Tho professor admits that the euro is costly, but. says it is certain m 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 tho Government to give a party of scientists an uninhabited island off French Guiana whero experiments on monkeys may be mado with a new vaccine. Dr. Calmette say« he has 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 inocui lated them with the baccili, pumping hundreds of millions of germs into their veins, but those calves which were vaccinated did not contract tbe disease. Post-mortem examinations failed to reveal tho slightest traces of tho affection. * - Dr. Calmette admits, however, that his experiments aro inconclusive as to what effect tho treatment would have on human beings, and for that reason he wants to experiment monkeys.