The gazette-times., February 12, 1914, Image 5

Drugless Treatment of Typhoid.
By Dr. J. Perry Conder, M.-T. D.
WEEK'S NEWS.
Paid Advertisement.
The position of the Drug doctors, in regard to typhoid fever, reminds
one of the "dog in the manger" story. They all agree that they cannot
break up typhoid fever, and that drugs are a positive injury to the pa
tient, but, they insist that no other treatment is teneficial and that the
patient will die if a drugless doctor continues to treat them. More than
three years ago I published the following challenge in the Heppner Times
of Jan. 5, 1911:
"In last week's issue of the Times we have an article, copied from
British Medical Journal, written by Alexander M. Bryce, M. D. upon
the value of Mechano-Therapy in the treatment of disease. Dr. Bryce it
seems has been investigating Osteopathy, whioh is a part of Meehano
Theraphy, and tries to inform the medical profession of its value in the
treatment of disease and has, in most part, written a good article but I
would like to call the attention of the reading public to the statement he
makes in regard to certain acute conditions such as typhoid fever, pneu
monia, nephritis, 'cold in the head.' (See third column in article.)
Now Osteopathy is only a part of Mechano-Therapy, as he admits in
his article, but had he observed one case being treated by any qualified
practitioner he would have been convinced that his opinion as stated in
this article is wholly erroneus. As a graduate of the American College
of Mechano-Therapy I find no trouble in breaking up and successfully
treating the typhoid fever. Every case I have had, and I have treated a
great number in Heppner, the fever had entirely disappeared the sixth
day and not a degree of fever has occurred after that time. Am willing
to treat any case under a competent nurse where any medical man may
see the patient as often as they desire. If the medical men are honest in
their contention that this cannot be done they Hhould be willing for such
a test."
Since the publication of the above challenge I have treated typhoid
fever, in a hospital in Heppner, and reduced the fever to normal within
six days and have the records kept by the nurse at the hospital as well
as my own records to refer to.
After explaining my method of treating the liver and spleen of a
typhoid fever patient, then come3 a representative of the medical pro
fession of our city and says he does not understand the functioning of the
spleen because it belongs to the class of bodies known as "ductless
glands." Gray's Anatomy, which is the standard authority the world
over, descriles the spleen and its functions, pages 1361 to 1367, and any
one so confessedly ignorant need not to go to the University of Virginia
to learn something about the spleen, therefore if you care to follow this
investigation for a little while we will study together just how and why
these treatments are so uniformly successful in breaking up typhoid fever.
Gray's Anatomy, page 1361, after giving the anatomical relationship of
the spleen to the stomach and its physiological relationship to the liver,
describing its SURFACES, (anterior or gastric surface and posterior or
renal surface) and giving its Size and weight in normal conditions, says,
page 1363, that during fevers it becomes much enlarged, weighing oc
casionally from eighteen to twenty pounds. After describing the frame
work of the spleen (tunica serosa) it says this frame work or the spaces
so formed contain the SPLENIC PULP (pulpa lienis) and goes on to
describe this pulp and its functions and relations of the pulp to the
blood and the circulation of the blood through this pulp until it gradual
ly undergoes a transformation, and becomes much thickened, and is con
verted into a lymphoid material. Thus the blood passing through the
spleen is brought into intimate relation with the elements of the pulp,
and no doubt undergoes important changes, page 1365. From the lymp
the body cells obtain food, into lymp they discharge their waste material,
page 772.
TREATMENT OF SPLEEN AND PANCREAS
The above statement in Gray's Anatomy, that the spleen is much
enlarged, is also stated by Dr. Osier in his "Practice of Medicine," page
68, published while he was professor at John Hopkins University and
also by Di. Holt of Columbia University in his book, page 1064. As the
pancreas gets the blood supply largely from the pancreatic branches of
the spleen we can at once see that a congested spleen would largely rob
the pancreas of the power to secrete the pancreatic juice. The pancreatic
juice contains a ferment which breaks up fat, a ferment which turns
sugar into starch, a ferment which curdles milk, and a ferment which
digests porteid material, Gray's Anatomy, page 1360.
PANCREATIC JUICE AND DIABETES MELLITUS
Not long ago a lady came into my oflioe and together with her hus
band and son told me that she had been examined by each medical doctor
in this town and they had told her that they did not know just what her
trouble was and one of them had taken her to Portland to see a specialist
who was also uncertain aa to her troubles. After a careful chemical and
microscopical diagnosis I pronounced it diabetes mcllitus. The physical
examination showed enlargement of the spleen, mcsentric glands greatly
swollen, liver hyperametic, and meteorism. Briefly stated the enlarge
ment of the spleen had so interfered with the functioning of the spleen,
pancreas, and liver that not enough pancreatic juice had been secreted to
change the sugar into starch, therefore the sugar was present. Diabetes
Mellitus has been and is being cured by myself and fellow practitioners
who treat the organs in such a manner ns to restore normality of the
organism . The medical profession say diabetes mcllitus can not be cured ,
just as they say typhoid fever cannot be broken up, but at least one case
has been diagnosed and pronounced diabetes by a physician in this town
and the patient has come to me and after two months of treatment the
other physician could not find any sugar present and pronounced the
man cured. That is about aa close to proof, really, as any physician
can get.
A RECORD OF 1,146 CASES OF TYPHOID
I have a record of the treatment of 1 , 1 46 cases of typhoid fever which
bad been diagnosed as typhoid fever by at least one regular, qualified
M. D. and many of the cases had been proven by the Widal Wave test,
each of these cases were then treated by witholding all nourishment which
could be a media for the development of the bacillus and by a manipula
tion scientifically applied so as to use the secretions of the stomach, liver,
and pancreas to aid the leucocytes in their fight to destroy and carry
away the micro-organisms; with the result that in every one of the 1,146
cases the fever was reduced to normal within six days from the day such
treatment was begun. Briefly Btated, instead of permitting the gastric
Juices of the stomach to be mixed with food and instead of letting the
bile be used up in the ordinary way and instead of letting tho pancreatic
juice be used to break up fat, convert sugar into starch and curdle milk
all of these secretions with the others of the body are used to fight the
battle against the invasion of pathogenic germs. This treatment of
typhoid is a scientific-one and is being recognized by medical men every
where, who are investigating it, and if our local physicians would spend
half as much time Btudying it as they do in going to the.parents and
friends of the patientswhom I am treating and saying that the patient
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John Hayes came up from Port
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by scientific minds as never before in the history of the scientific world
and some wonderful discoveries are being made.
It has always been a question whether the appendix is of any use at
all, but Dr. Edmund Perries has just told the French Academy of Sciences
that the appendix excites the activity of the intestines and thus aids the
functions of digestion and excretion and he says it should not be removed
except in cases of absolute necessity. After experimenting on animals
with their appendices removed as in human beings, Dr. Perrier discover
ed that the secretions of the gland had a strong effect on the intestinal
muscles and makes a strong plea that the academy should suggest to
French surgeons that they cease from performing appendix operations for
any but urgent reasons.
Dr. William J. Mayo, of Rochester, Minn., one of the two brilliant
brothers whose fame has spread wherever surgery is known, read a paper
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