Curing Tuberculosis

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jun 10, 1913

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 40, No. 23.

Curing Tuberculosis.

Dr. Friedmann’s serum for the cure of consumption has been much discussed during recent months. Some are endeavoring to discredit it, particularly because of the fact that the claim is made that he is trying to commercialize it. But in discussing the matter Professor Stoerck, who is considered a leading pathologist in Europe, has given expression to a few facts that should be kept prominent. After saying quite a good deal in regard to the fact that Dr. Friedmann has refused, up to the present time, to give out the secret of his serum, and after offering a number of conjectures as to what that serum might be, the professor says:

“The cure of consumption is purely a question of money, except in rare cases of malicious infection. If taken in hand at an early stage, there is a certainty of complete cure. The first prescription is for the patient to breathe pure air, without dust or wind, in a climate without sudden changes, moving little, and taking nourishing food. Life on board ship is preferable to all else.”

“Great hopes are entertained of Veleminsky’s tubercalomucin, which has had brilliant result with consumptive cows, doubling their weight and milk production in a few months.

“Tuberculosis of the throat and bones probably can be cured by sun and light. By bringing the treatment within the sphere of the indigent classes, the government could reasonably reduce this scourge, which causes more deaths than all other diseases together.”

Pure air and pure food, under proper conditions, is a sure cure for tuberculosis—so affirms the professor, and the world is coming to understand that his affirmation is correct; and since pure air and pure food and proper conditions will cure consumption, a better thing still is for us to live in the pure air and to have pure food and to make our conditions and surroundings as wholesome as possible, so that we may not contract tuberculosis. Our leading scientists and physicians are urging these matters, and we wish to join in giving their sentiments as wide a circulation as possible.