THE DAILY EXAMINER.

DECEMBER 17, 1890.

A New Treatment of Consumption.

Very keen interest 1s, naturally, taken in all the experiments entered into for the

: ’ ; ‘ . * s 1 - purpose of discovering a cure for consum|

Dr. Koch has lately object of the world’s solicitude. other physician great deal of attention to this disease is Dr. Roussel, of France. By the kindness of Dr. Beer, of this city, we are enabled to lay before the readers of THE ExeMIner a short description of Dr. method. Dr. Roussel has for worked the rmic injections for the treat- , and

the An-

devoted a

been tion.

who has

Rouasel’s : prin-

many years upon cipal of hypode ment of a large number of discases notably for phthisis. His theory is—says the correspondent of the Lancet from whom we quote—that all the symptoms of phthisis are the efforts of nature to throw off the microbe which is destroying the system, The suppurations, expectorations, are nature’s attempts to get rid of the in- vading bacilli, The high temperature burns the leucomaines, etc , that circulate in the blood ; the abundant night sweats, the diarrhcea and surcharged urines are all so many modes of elimination. They are the arms which nature has given the human body to expel those animal particles which have been rendered injuricus by ithe invading microbe. Therefore Dr. Russel maintains that true science rests in tve use of such remedies as will attack only the microbe, and that we ought not to try to diminish the power of those weapons which our organism employs in self defence. Rather should we seek to increase the vitality of the subject who serves as a field of battle between bnman life and the life This theory seems to be lf right, as Doctor

of the microbes. be the right one. Roussel contends, remedies which disturb the digestion and therefore weaken the patient, while they altogether faii to reach the lungs where the microbes are, must be worse than useless. General hygiene, con- stant ventilation, plenty of sunlight, and sanitary kaitted wool clothing are, in gases of consumption, strongly advocated by Dr. Tkoussel. The particular method adopted by him is simple, the practice easy, but the indications given must be very rigorously observed, otherwise unpleasant accidents may result. Eucalyptol is Dr. Roussel’s favorite antisceptic, which he uses in the proportion of 20 per cent. for his hypoder- mic injections. But if this or other medi- caments are diluted in some substances, very grave accidents may result. Dr. toussel employs pure sterilized olive oil, as this is a substance not foreign to the usual nutrition of the human body. Na- turally, says the correspondent, the injec- tions have to be taken for several months, as the perfumed effluvia must be absorbed —must, in fact, embalm the entire body to preserve it, as that of a mummy, against the destructive microbes. This done sys- tematically, will, Dr. Roussel maintains, kill the bacillus of Koch, especially if it be a case, not of inherited, but of contracted consumption. The first cases treated in this manner by Dr. Roussel date as far back as 1883 84, and some of the patients have, it is asserted, enjoyed good health ever since. As an instance, it is stated that a female patient of the late Dr. Fauvel, the eminent physician who presided at the International Congress of Hygiene, of 1878, was sent to

Dr. Roussel by Dr. Fauvel. Her right lung was affected, and numerous bacilli were found in her sputa.

The treatment began in January, 1883, and in Januaay, 1884, the bacilli and all acute symptoms had disappeared, the patient gained weight, and has ever since been able to work, earning her living as a seamstress. In the month of March, 1888, Dr. Roussel brought before the Society of Practical Medicine eighteen patients suffering from phthisis. In the month of Marc’, 1889, he brought the greater number af the same patients before the society, so that they might be examined by the same medical men who had seen them a year previously. These eighteen patients had received alto- gether 4714 hypodermic injections. One of the eighteen patients, who seemed to have recovered his health, started on a journey, contracted double pneumonia, and died. Drs. Tison, Guerder, Duchesne, Gaudin, Thermes, Boyer, Gronineau, and others examined, at the end of the year, fifteen or sixteen out of the eighteen patients. They all testified that the place where these numerous hypodermic injec- tions had been administered remained in a perfectly normal condition. There was no inflammation. Dr. Dujardin-Beaumetz presided at the sitting, and a resolution was carried to the effect that the numerous injections of various substances had left no trace whatsoever. On the other hand, the patients were either to all appearances cured, or very greatly improved in health. In several instances the analysis of the sputa showed that the bacilli of Koch had disappeared altogether. Apart from these particular cases brought before the Society of Practical Medicine, Dr. Roussel has some thirty double analyses of the sputa of his patients made either at hospitals or by eminent bacteriologiets. The first of these two analyses for each patient shows that the bacilli of Koch abounded in the sputa. The second, made generally twelve months

‘THE DAILY EXAMINER, - - -

later, declares that the bacilli had disap- peared. During the Medical Congress held in Berlin last August Dr. Roussel weat to the and there performed

Charity Hospital,

many hypodermic injections on patients suffering from phthisis, to show how this done without inconvenience or accidents. Whatever may be the secret of Dr. Koch’s treatment of phthisis, Dr. Roussel claims that, since 1883, he has, with marked success, treated this malady by hypodermic injections of meta!loids and

Dr. Roussel also has not hesi-

could be

alkaloids. tated to supply Dr. the enquiries nade by the eminent German

Koch, in response to

professor, with full details as to his mode of In fact, no secret whatever in Dr. Roussel’s system. The yrofession are welcome to make every in- quiry, and he is ready to show everything, even his patients, to competent investi-

procedure. there is

gators.

_— ~~ > ~~ oor

Notes and Comments.

—e The American Bake Says .

“The farmer has no more right to demand a governmental loan at a n minal rate of interest secured, by his farm, than the laborer, who may give his tools as security. A law which would thus discriminite in favor of the farmer would have the effect cf making money lenders of the farmers, who getting funds at, say 2 per cent. o¢ less, could lend money to other borrowers at 5, 10 or 15 per cent.

—The Guardian accuses Tut EXAMINER of having ‘* abused ” the Scott Act and _ its supporters; also with having ** abused ” the liquor dealers for trying to repeal it.” Tue Examiner ‘‘abused ” neither theonenor the other. Tue Examiner would, indeed, be well pleased if the Guardian could prove by facts and arguments that the Scott Act, as adininistered in Chalottetown, has accomplished a good werk for temper- ance ; also, if it could prove that the liquor dealers are the promoters of the anti-Scott Act petition. We ask the Guardian to prove its statements,—and cease making false charges against THe EXAMINER.

—There is something very characteristic and significant in the Guardian's treatment of the honorable and venerable Senator Haythorne. First the Senator was invited by the Guardian to express his views on the repeal or retention of the Scott Act. Then he was complimented upon his ** frank communication,” and told that the Guardian would be ‘‘glad to hear from him again.” Andthen he was dismissed and told that he did not deal with the question as the Guardian desired, Senator Haythorne is also a ‘‘ mystery’ to the Gvardian He discusses the question from the point of view of temperance, and quotes Jobn Bright. The Guardian cannot uuder- stand such a position ; therefore it has no use for him.

—The first injection of Dr. Koch’s cele- brated lymph which has yet taken place in America was made in New York on Tues- day of last week. On that day Dr. Hamil- ton, of the Hospital for the Relief of the Ruptured and Crippled, incculated a pa- tient of that institution. Onze of the most prevalent of the diseases treated in the Hospital is tubercolosis of the joints (scme- times known as hip disease) and it was upon one of these patients, a little girl who was regarded as convalescent, that the in- jection was at first attempted. The lymph was carefully diluted in the proportion of one milligramme of the Koch flaid to one cubic centimetre of steril zed water. Jt was desired to ascertain what effect the lymph would have upon tubercolosis of this char- acter, particularly at the stage of convales- ence which the selected patient had reach- ed. The injection was made between the shoulder blades. The symptoms of reaction were carefully watched for by Dr. Hamilton and his friends, as well as the members of the hospital staff, but none of them ap- peared, thus proving to the satisfaction of the physicians that the patient was actually convalescent, and that the healthy subject would not respond to the lymph’s influence because of the reasons already set fourth by Professor Koch. Up to last Saturday, thirty-six patients had been treated at dif- ferent hospitals, and in every case the re- sults, as régards reaction, are said to have most satisfactory. It is, of course, too early yet to teil whether any cures can be looked forward to.

———---——— - orOre Major Steveuson’s Visit.

M ‘jor Stevenson, the Oid Country dele- gate who arrived here on Monday night, crossed over to Picteu in the Stanley to- day. Ue will stop over at New Giasgow, and take a look at the gliss works and other indus:ries there.

Yesterday afternco-, the Major, accom- panied by Hon. Neil McLeod, Hon. P. Blake and C. C. Gardiner, Esq., visited the p emises of Mesers. Blake Bros,,on the Mal- peque Road. The Major was well pleased with what he saw there. The cattle, he said, were the finest he had seen since leaving home, and as for the Durham heifer, he thought it was the best he had ever seen in any country. He asked Mr. Blake to have this splendid animal weighed, and send the weight, together with a photograph of the heifer, to him at Londonderry, and Mr. Blake promised to do so.

The party afterwards visited the Stock Farm Stablas. The cattle—especially the Durhams—were, he said, excellent.

The Major was entertained at luncheon yesterday by His Honor the Lieutenant Governor.

He expresses himself as much pleased with the Island, which, he says, was known as ‘New Ireland,” because of the great fer- tility of the soil. He had heard very flat- tering accounts of the Island before he came out. Sir Charles/Tupper, who was particu- larly warm in his praise of it, had told him that his visit would not be complete unless he came here. Speaking of Ireland, the Major remarked that it was free trade which had kil'ed the place. Under it, Ireland’s industries had about all gone to the wall, and the country was flvoded with cheap wares from England, Scotland, Ger- many, France and other countries. Ire- land’s struggling industries could not com- pete successfully with the old established manufactories of these more fortunate countries, and the usual result followed.

Mr. V. W. Smith, formerly of Pownal, but now of Anacortes, Wash., has the EXAMINER'S

thanks for a late number of the Anacortcs

CR GAMO GE SELED LOO LOLA A RAEI OLS EFL LE BN ONION De FL

~ -_

i einen ig

- WEDNES DAY, |

OA el ae

ECEMBER 17. 1890.

PARNELL

ee eee

Unabated Viger.

ee

Almost Gone.

— ed

Mr. Parnell arrived in Cork and received | an enthusiastic reception. The first to! wait upon him was the secretaries of the | labor societies, who told him they regarded him as their chief and that Davitt was not | the father of the movement. Parnell said | Davitt claimed to be the father of every- thing.

At the League meeting he was so weary that he commenced his speech (which was} very short) sitting down, but afterwards he | stood up. He spoke very slowly, as if; weighing each word. The gist of his state- | ment was as follows :—I have for several | months considered the questions relating to | the different bodies of lrishmen, the posi- | tion of the National League of Cork, and; the condition of the laborers’ movement in | Cork county, and have considered how far | I, as your leader, can and ought to recon- cile the interests of the laborers’ move- | ment with the interests of the national | movement.” He added that he did not! consider the task insuperable. His} thoughts and instincts had always been | directed toward the workingmen of Ireland, and it had elways been his desire to have on his side the hard-fisted sons ot toil. He looked to them for every consideration, and he would return the compliment fully. | He hoped they would not shirk their duty, | and he wouldn't shirk his. Those who understand the city of Cork say that his | constituency is not with him. There is much shouting when he appears, and the shouters are for him, but the voters are not with him and the tide seems to be growing stronger. Inthe Church of St. Peter and St. Paul the priest advised his hearers to take down Varnell’s picture from their walis.

When he left for Kilkenny, among those who cheered for him were many who groaned and hissed him. Oue man shouted ‘*May the curse of God melt you.” At Kilkenny there wasa large crowd, newly | divided. It waa difficult to tell from the | cheers and groans which side had the majority. Still his treatment here wes! much beiter than Davitt and Healy re- ceived.

It is impossible to say how the election will result. Suth sides are confident on the surface, out ihe Parnell side cannot explain why the other side has the priests — and they are doing effective work. Healy and Davitt are alone, Parnell has William Redmond, Fitzgerald, Mahoney, O'Kelly, Harrison and Nolan.

A priest in Michaelstown took down a} nutaber of placards thet had been posted |

|

seis iatilit ill aati tie ta Lecture in St. James’ Hail.

en Mr. Carruthers last evening to hear his lec- | ture on Dickens and his readings from the | works of this popular author. The chair’ was occupied by Dr. Anderson, Principal of the Prince of Wales College.

The lecturer began by contrasting the novels of Dickens and Scott with those of recent times, and showed the superiority , of the former over the ** love stories” of | our day, where the end is generally known from the beginning. A plot was humor- ously outlined as characteristic of this class, the origin of which was traced to the French. Then followed a sketch of Dicke: s career, more especially on the literary side, in which the growth of his genius was ex- amined from its first awaken ngs on reading ‘*The Vicar of Wakefild’ aid ‘‘ Robinson Crusoe” inthelonely gar: et to the time when | it won for him the prou i title of **The most popular writer of the age.” He then showed how the events of his early life in- fluenced his imagination, and determined the complexion of all his productions, Many other writers than Charles Dickens passed theiz early days among the lower classes, but none who so remembered their ways, their speech, and their modes of thought.

His power of describing common things, and investing them with a fascinating inter- eit, the external circumstances of his char- acters being steeped in the same colors as the characters themselves; his deeply hu. man heart, and his kindly sympathy with the poor, whose condition his writings have done so much to better; his charming humor and tender pathos, were eloquently referred to and illustratel by selections from his productions.

The charge of upholding convivia‘ity, pre- ferred against Dickens by come of his contem-

oraries, was shown to be utterly unfounded.

n fact, the opposite is true, as was proved by extracts from ‘*Sketches by Boz,” and f om other of his writings.

All the selections were excellently delivere}, but the lecturer seemed to excei himself in rendering the description of Sam Weller’s attempt to write a ‘‘walentine,” as an illustra- tion of Dickens’ humor, and of the death of little Joe as an illustration of his pathos.

At the conclusion of the lecture, the chair- inan expressed his pleasure, and dweit at some length on the moral tone of our literature, especially with reference to the vice of drunkenness,

“An evening pleasantly and _ profitably spent” wes the verdict of the audience. eo

Explanation Wanted.

Str,—I was present at the lecture delivered by Mr. B. D. Higgs on the Scott Act, in the basement of the Methodist church, on Monday evening last. In supporting the yote of thanks to the lecturer, Mr. Silas Hodgson, of the P. E. I. Railway, stated that were it not for the Province of Quebec the Dominion of Canada would before this have had a prohibi- tory law. Did this gontleman wish to convey the impression that the French Canadians of this large Catholic pioneer province are a diunken peeple Sand a hindrance to the progress of Canada? If discussions on the temperance question cannot be conducted without offering a studied insult to a sober people and to a rice noted for their temperate hibits the world over, the quicker thcre is a change of front the better.

JUSTICE.

John Smith, better known as “ Jimmy Maguire, the son of on Irish King,” is here on cne of his periodical visits, :

1W IRELAND,

Continuing the Fight with

ee | }

THE GREAT LEADER

Careworn, Worried, and His Voice |

Are to be had This Week at the Bazaar Store.

about the town, calling upon the people to Card Boxes, trimmed with Plush, Silk and Satin—something new. support Parnell. |

fairly large audisace greeted the Rev. |

the Season’s Trade.

}

} ee ee eee Ee ee

~ BROS,

: Mi Te tg, Ohne

Special Values in EUR GOODS of all kinds, BLACK DRESS GOODS, LINEN GOODS, BLACK DRESS SELES.

Se

Bigger Bargains

THAN EVER

————————— (x) ——_ ——

&MAS CARDS! SMAS CARDS!

Over 5,000 New Pisin and Boxed Cards to select from. Als, a fine stock of

‘x) : Our Plush, Leather, Izzano and @xidized Silver Goods will be found in every conceivable shape.

Ladies’ and Gents’ Dressivg Cases, Ladies’ and Gents’ Cuff and Collar Boxes, Ladies’ Glove and Handkerchief Boxes, Work Boxes and Jewel Cases, Gents’ Shaving Cases, Ladies’ Work Baskets, A!bums, Satchels, Purses, Mirrors, Toilet Brushes, Combs, Easels and Mirrors, Candlesticks.

We have but one word to say for our Albums and Plush Goods:—AT PRE- SENT PRICES WE DEFY COMPETITION,

{x}

China, Glass and Crockeryware.

LAMPS (Hall, Parlor and Library), VASES, TOILET SETS, CUPS and SAUCERS, Jugs, Candlesticks, Card and Fruit Baskets, Tumblers and Goblets, Shaving Mugs, Finger Bowls, Ink Bottles, Ink Stands, Toilet Bottles, Viucgar Bottles—Cheap ! Cheaper !! Cheapest!!!

————(o})—

SLEIGHS, PUNGS AND SLEDS.

SELLING AT CosT, TO CLEAR :—Our Stock of Two Hundred Sleds. our 30 cent Sleighs and be surprised. The Best only 60 cents,

See

NU TROUBLE

——TO CHOOSE—-

A NICE, USEFUL Xmas Present.

SEE PATON & C0’S.

WONDERFUL STOCK OF

Handsome Silk Handkerchiefs,

Beaver Capes and Muffs, Astracan Jackets, Men’s Fur Caps.

TRY PATON & COS,

——_FOR——

Kid Mitts and Kid Glives,

DRESS GOODS.

aes ee

Don't buy Silk Handkerchiefs before seeing James Paton

& Co’s.

For the Largest Assortment of Silk Handkerchiefs try Jas. Paton & Co’s.

Mantle and Ulster Cloths very cheap at Paton & Co’s,

Wonderful Value in Reefers

and Overcoats at Jas. Paton & Co’s.

For Millinery, try James Paton & Co’s. See their Trimmed Hats at $1.75, $2 and $2.25.

Men’s Fur Coats cheap at Jas. Paton & Co’s.

For Ladies’ Dolmans, Fur-Lined Circulars and Astracan Jack- ets, there is no better place

in the city than James Paton & Co's.

Gat Robes in great variety and lowest prices at James Paton & Co's.

Men’s Fur Gloves and Mitts at James Paton & Co’s.

Ladies’ Lined Gloves, with Gauntlets, very nice for a Xmas Present, at James Paton & Cuv’s.

Fur Goods in great variety at

Letter to the Children !

ERE 1 AM, and my Headquarters is at the BAZAAR STORE, where you must cai] «nd lezve your orders for ail the Toys I am going to put in your Stockings this Xmas. 1 have taken my roou.s on the’ Second Floor, where | am showing ~— of al my Toys for this week. Be sure to call and see me, for I may never ve here agnin, as | am geiting old and will leave my work i in the hands of the BAZAAR CO, 26 ; it ae nike

Hoping {uy see you all, I remain, yours truly,

SANTA CLAUS.

Charlottetowa, December 14, 1 99.

7 E MAKE the same offer as last y f KI same _ ast year of a FANCY \ SILVER-PLATED SUGAR SPOON with every Dol- lar’s worth of goods sold; or, if preferred, a Liberal Discount, A large lot of these Spoons now due here. New Stock for

G. H. TAYLOR, Jeweler,

NORTH SIDE QUEEN SQUARE. Charlottetown, December 13, 1890 —dy 2aw wky

Paton & Co’s.

Men’s Underwear, very cheap, at Paton & Co’s,

Jas, Paton & C0,

MARKET SQUARE. Charlottetown, Dec. 11, 1890,

Y. M. C. A.

Sale of Papers and Magazines,

N THURSDAY EVENING NEXT, the 18th inst, at 8 o'clock, in the Y. M.

C. A. Reading Room, will be offered all the leading Megazines and Papers—Englist,

American and Dominion, R, M. BARBATT. decl5 Secretary.

The above sale is Postponed until FRIDAY ge oe the 19th instant. ec

Me dilie RT e ilea ii ks smiaialiaiits ie