San Francisco Graft and Tuberculosis Treatment
By Editor
Right upon the heels of the graft cases of San Francisco comes the looting of the city treasury of about $60,000 or more. Will justice be as tardy in this as in the graft cases? About all that has been done thus far is to cause more or less temporary inconvenience to the grafters. News comes from Chicago that Dr. Emil Beck of that city has been very successfully treating children who are crippled through tuberculosis of the bones. The treatment consists in filling the cavity caused by the disease with bismuth and sub-nitrate compound, combined with the basis of vaseline. In five weeks' trial it is said that twenty out of forty crippled children were cured by the treatment. The formula, says the news item, contains 30 grains of bismuth and sub-nitrate compound, with 60 grams of vaseline. The paste is solid at the temperature of the body, but if a fever is induced, it will run out of the cavity. As the healing is continued, the mixture is absorbed.