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m mi f OR CSNS?MPTiON.
SEMEDY FOR THE GREAT
W HITE PLAGUE.
Physicians of Xew York Post Gradu?
ate School of Medicine Have
Made Valuable Discovery.
In a circular just sent to all the
prominent physicians of New York,
tinder sml of professional secrecy,
*says the Brooklyn Eagle, the an?
nouncement is made by the Xew York
Post-Graduate Hospital, Manhattan,
of the discovery of a vegetable fluid
which has been accepted as a positive
.core for consumption. .
Results covering many months of
exhaustive and costly experiment
show complete cures in every in?
stance. Eleven patients who on be?
ginning the treatment were sufferers
from the disease have been discharged
as fit subjects for a life insurance
Tisk, and fifty others, still under ob?
servation in the hospital are on the
high road to recovery.
The discovery is this: That a com?
pound of raw vegetable juices is the
. 2ong sought for element of diet needed
to cure obstinate cases, where the les?
tons in the lungs persisted after the
ravages of the disease' had been ap?
parently checked and the general
health of the body restored, as testi
by an increase in weight. The
of the new compound has over
.come this difficulty to the complete
^satisfaction of a disinterested board
-43? doctors.
It is believed, moreover, that this
may lead to a means by which every
hody may be rendered immune from
the deadly tubercle bacilli, just as
vaccination safeguards from small?
pox. . It is expected that the Post
Graduate Hospital will advocate that
the fluid eventually be bottled and
placed "on tap" at stations through?
out the city and in drug stores and
at soda water fountains.
Vegetable juice has been in use at
the Post-Graduate Hospital's annex
for the treatment for consumption,
Ko. 322 East Nineteenth street, . since
.January 7, of this year, and at the
basement of the hospital building,
Second avenue and Twentieth street,'
?ince March 7. Between January 7
and June 20 the records show that
.eleven patients were discharged as
cared, after being examined by a
specially selected board of specialists
none of Whom were interested in the
experiments.
That this splendid achievement was
mainly due to the administration x>f
.fl?e new fluid is demonstrated by the
tact that the greatest? number of cures
ever effected by the hospital in a year
/was 13. This was the record of 1904,
ln\ other words, almost as many cures
Slave been made in a little more than
five months under the vegetable juice
treatment as under the old method
-were made in a year. This represents
a leap of 100 per cent in the propor?
tion of successful cases.
Most of the fresh vegetables in the
market enter into the composition of
the fluid. The circular to the profes?
sion thus describes the method of pre?
paring it:
"**Equal parts by weight of raw veg?
etables are scrubbed with a brush in
tresh water, then mixed and chopped
until the particles are small enough
to go into "the receiver of a grinding
-.machine, where the mass is reduced
ito a pulp. The pulp is collected and
the juice squeezed out through coarse
mnslin cloth.
The machines are designed to tear
.grad grind the mass, rather than to
-?at it up. A peanut-butter making
device is used. The mechanism con
.aists of two metal disks, ribbed and
teeing each other. One of them re
wolves. The coarse vegetable matter
-4? fed in at the center and, after trav
eBng the width of the plates, escapes
at the circumference. The hand ma
. chines are not expensive, can be ad?
justed on any table and are easily
'Jeept clean.
*The vegetables first used were po?
tato, onion, beet, turnip, cabbage and
celery. Later were added sweet pota?
to, apple, pineapple,, carrot, parsnip,
and later still rhubarb (pie plant),
?immer squash, tomato, spinach,
"radishes, string beans and green
peas with the pods.'
The juice, is prepared every day at
the hospital and kept on ice. Each
patient receives two ounces twice a
J?ay after meals.
The report which the hospital au?
thorities are circulating among the
physicians is one submitted to the ex
'iecutive committee by Dr. Russell, who
Jbas had charge of the tuberculosis
.-Class in the dispensary- since its in?
ception in 189$, and to whom all the
credit is given for the pioneer work
done by the institution in combating
the great white plague among the
poor of Nev/ York. The vegetable
compound is Dr. Russell's discovery.
Notwithstanding the substantial na?
ture of the tests to which it has been
put, he will commit himself only to
the most modest claims for his dis?
covery.
4T am convinced," he says, "that
the vegetable fluid is a valuable ad?
dition to diet, but feel that six months'
.observation Is not sufficient a period
of observation io justify me in speak?
ing positively of its full value. As an
investigator, merely, it would be more
agreeable to wait until the end of the
year; but I do not feel justified in
withholding longer an account of its
use in these experiments, because the
results so far are so favorable, the
number of persons suffering with pul?
monary tuberculosis is enormous and
the need for relief is pressing."
The principle upon which Dr. Rus?
sell's treatment of consumption is
based is that this dread disease is
primarily due to malnutrition, which
is to say that the consumptive's body
does not absorb the elements of food
it needs to create normal blood; for
if his blood were normal it would
contain properties destructive of
poisons such as is the tubercle bacil?
lus. Therefore "the direction of food,
hygiene and manner of exercise has
displaced the old rule of the adminis?
tration of drugs and the search for
specific medicine.
Experimenting along these lines for
years, Dr. Russell designed a special
? system of diet by which there were
} introduced into the systems of his
patients much more fat than was
needed for the production of heat or
I energy and much more proteid than
was needed for the repair of waste.
Proteid being that element of food
which builds tissue, it neutralizes,
when absorbed into the blood, poisons
like the tubercle bacillus, whose na?
ture it is to destroy tissue.
By getting his patients to absorb b>
overfeeding such quantities of proteid
as would overwhelm the bacilli, Dr.
Russell obtained a large measure of
success in curing tuberculosis, but he
frequently found himself balked by
patients in whose lungs bacilli con?
tinued to exist, although the steady
gain in weight made by the patients
showed that their nutritional pro?
cess was in good working order. Why,
then, did some of his patients show
a steady progress toward health,
while others stood still? And why
was - the improvement of some* so
much more rapid than others?
Dr. Russell at length came to the
conclusion that the answers to these
questions were to be found in the
presence or absence in varying de?
grees of an unknown something in
the. diet partaken of by his patients.
"It has been demonstrated," says
Dr. Russell, "that food and fresh air
I are the main factors in the cure of
i
consumption, but most physicians
must feel that much remains to be
done toward the perfection of the
diet before we ean approach the
treatment of ali patients with full as?
surance. The problem of weight
gaining- has been solved. There is
ro longer difficulty in supplying the
proper quantity of proteid, carbo?
hydrate and fat; but is there not
scmothig additional needed to lift the
blood and tissues to that high estate,
perfect health, fer which physiolo?
gists have not yet found a nam< 9
For centuries scurvy dominated the
world and its treatment is undoubted?
ly the greatest dietetic triumph. Still,
it is well to remember that after more
than 100 years physiological chemis?
try has failed to answer the question.
What is the substance in fresh vege?
table and fruit juices by means of
which the magical results are
wrought?
"Experience in a m large number of
cases of consumption has led to the
conclusion that in cases of the appar?
ently curable type who fail to get
well, the cause of the failure is the
lack of an unknown something in the
diet. In cases where the patients re?
spond but very slowly this mysteri?
ous something is supplied in insuf?
ficient quantities or at too long in?
tervals.
"For a number of years I have been
searching for this unknown something
or its source of supply, and vegetable
juice is the final outcome."
Drs. Thomas W. Bickerton, No. 656
West . End avenue, Manhattan, and
Donald M. Barstow, No. 56 East
Fifty-third street, Manhattan, who
were appointed by the hospital au?
thorities to observe and report on Dr.
Russell's experiment, are less cautious
in giving expression to their enthus?
iasm.
The mysterious "unkown some?
thing" remains to be discovered, it is
true, but with its scurce of supply
known, it is the belief of these two
doctors that the secret must soon be
revealed.
One of the reasons for acquainting
physicians with the new treatment
was the conviction of Dr. Russell that
the treatment of consumption must be
taken up by the general practitioner
and not shifted to the specialist.
'.It is the general practitioner,"
says Dr. Russell's communication to
his fellow doctors, "who is first con
suited, advises and. in most cases, de?
termines the course pursued by the
patient The disease is universal and
the genera] practitioner is daily shap?
ing the destinies of thousands. It is
not alone necessary to show him that
consumption is curable, but that the
details of its successful management
are as easily within his command as
the details of the management of any
other common disease, typhoid fever,
for example."-N. Y. Coanmereial.
JILE SUMTER HOSPITAL.
From the Daily Item Aug. 30.
The Sum ?.er Hospital is completed,
and it stands today pre-eminently
superior to any building of its kind
in the State, evincing the enterprise
and the success of the physicans, v;ho
are its founders. The elegant struct?
ure is situated on the corner of West
Calhoun and Sumter streets, with four
massive Corinthian columns orna?
menting the front and ar artistically
designed porte-cochere beautifying its
western side. Spacious piazzas are on
every floor, in which a delightful
breeze is always to be felt, were de?
signed especially for the benefit of con?
valescent patients, the idea being pat?
terned after the plan of construction
that is carried out in the world-re?
nowned Johns Hopkins "Hospital in
Baltimore, Md.
The hospital was organized one
year ago yesterday with a paid in
capital stock of $20,000.00, Drs. S. C.
Baker, president; Archie China, vice
president; Walter Cheyne, treasurer,
and H. M. Stuckey, secretary, being
the officers and incorporators thereof.
Work on the building was commenced
on October 1st last and today, in a
comparatively short time, an elegant
hospital, three stories in height and
measuring 60x120 feet, has its doors
open to receive invalids from all the
surrounding country.
The building is constructed of imi?
tation stone, being made on- the hospi?
tal site by mixing together sand and
cement in a proportion of 3 to 1. This
is by no means an experiment. The
Harvard grandstand, in New Haven,
Conn., was built of it five years ago,
and it has been used in Sweden for a
period exceeding 200 years. It pre?
sents a beautiful appearance, and is
known to stand the most severe cli?
mates.
The hospital is built almost entirely
of fireproof materials, the partitions
between the rooms are of stone, and
the acme cement, used throughout
the building for plastering, is put on
metallic laths. Noise is reduced to a
minimum. Between the double floors
is an inch thick layer of asbestos,
which deadens sound, and the inter?
communicating telephonic system
with eleven stations in different parts
of the building will prevent much un?
necessary walking. Communication
can be had with all important rooms
of the hospital and connections can be
made with the local exchange, which
will prove a source of great conveni?
ence to the nurses, patients and other
inmates of the hospital.
The fifty rooms that are in the hos- j
pital are furnished neatly, and with
the sole purpose of promoting the j
comfort of the patients. Green
shades and dainty, dotted mull half
curtains hang at the windows. The
electric buttons have attached to them
a long cord, which enables
the patient to call without the exer?
tion of rising, and which permits him
to use the bell without regard to the
position that his bed occupies in the
room.. Clean linen and comfortable
mattresses are on pretty iron and
brass beds with adjustible woven
wire springs, and the other furniture
is in keeping with that which has been
described. Combined gas and electric
light fixtures are in every room. The
price per week for the rooms varies
from ten ta twenty-five dollars, the
same being regulated according to size
and location.
Besides the rooms that are provided
for patients on the first floor, there
are the sueprintendent's room, the
examination room and the reception
room. This floor will be devoted prin?
cipally to typhoid fever cases. In the
examination room is an X-ray ma?
chine of the most improved style,
which is connected with and run by a
labor-saving device in the form of a
water motor. The bath rooms and all
other private apartments are provided
with ground glass windows. In the
rear of the white department on this
floor, an in no way connected with
it, is the colored male ward, which is
splendidly fitted up for the accommo?
dation of four patients.
The second floor is the medical
gynecological deparement of the hos?
pital. On this floor are the most de?
sirable rooms in the building, and is
similarly arranged and furnished as
the first floor, and the female colored
ward occupies the same relative posi?
tion there as does the colored male
ward on the floor below.
The top floor is the most interesting
to the visitor. Hore you find a well
appointed kitchen, containing a splen?
did Pacific range and every modern
convenience. The dumb waiter shaft
connects with this room, and through
it meals are lowered to the patients
on the lower floors. This is also the
surgical floor. In the steralizing room
is a laboratory with automatic foot
fixtures, where the physicians may
bathe their hands ?md cleanse their
instruments before and after an op?
eration. The operating room on this
floor is lighted from the North, the
most approved light, and to contribute
to this is a large brass crane to which
is attached sixteen electric lamps.
The roof of the building is so ar?
ranged as to be accessible by the
large elevator^ that operates through^
the building, and provides an ideal
place for patients to get the benefit of
fresh air.
In the basement there is a room
that acts as a receptacle for all the
soiled linen that is sent down from
the upper floors through a metal
shaft. The laundry is in the adjoining
room, and will be operated by an ex?
pert. The boiler room, the nurses'
dining room and a plant for making
and generating gas from gasoline are
also located there.
The new hospital will be the home
of the Training School for Nurses,
which has, previous to the removal,
turned out many bright and efficient
alleviators of suffering. At present
there are in charge of the hospital
Miss Lila Davis, superintendent and
head nurse, and the following nurses:
Misses Kennedy, Furman, Brinkley,
Thomas and Hines.
Too much credit cannot be accorded
I the physicians who are the founders
of this institution, for they have given
j to Sumter an establishment of which
its citizens can proudly boast no equal
in the State.
Dr. Finn's Testimony Interesting;.
Dr. Thomas Finn, of Boonsboro,
Mo., who has practiced medicine
for 32 years, says he has used every
prescription known to the profes?
sion for treatment of kidney and
bladder diseases, and says he has
in both chronic and acute kidney
and bladder trouble used Foley's Kid?
ney Cure. It stops irregularities
and builds up the whole system. Du?
rant's Pharmacy.
mm ? 4? ? .
The reports from the country are
that cotton is opening very rapidly
and that pickers are in great demand.
A Clear Complexion and Bright Eyes.
In most cases a sallow, blotched
complexion and dull, heavy eyes are
due to poor digestion and an inac?
tive liver. Orino Laxative Fruit
Syrup aids digestion and stimulates
the liver and bowels and makes the
complexion smooth and clear. Orino
Laxative Fruit Syrup does not nause?
ate or gripe and is mild and pleasant
to take. Refuse substitutes. Du?
rant's Pharmacy.
There is no use to think of bidding
for the Presbyterian College if the
argest subscriptions are to be no more
than $500.
The Original.
Foley & Co.,, Chicago, originated
Honey and Tar as a throat and lung
remedy, and on account of the great
merit and popularity of Foley's Honey
and Tar many imitations are offered
for the genuine. These^ worthless
imitations have similar sounding
names. Beware of them. The
genuine Foley's Honey and Tar'is in
a yellow package. Ask for it and
refuse any subMitute. It is thc best
remedy for coughs and colds. Du?
rant's Pharmacy.
It is better to be wrecked on a desert
island with a parrot than to dwell in
Paradise with a woman who pouts.
New Orleans Picayune.
Men Past Sixty in Danger.
More than half of mankind over
sixty years of age suffer from kid?
ney and bladder disorders, usually
enlargement of prostate gland. This
is both painful and dangerous, and
Foley's Kidney Cure should be ta?
ken at thc first sign of danger, as it
corrects irregularities and has cured
many old men of this disease. Mr.
Rodney Burnett, Rock Port, Mo.,
writes: "I suffered with enlarged
prostate gland and kidney trouble
for years and after taking two bot?
tles of Foley's Kidney Cure I feel
better than I have for 20 years, al?
though I am now 91 years old." Du?
rant's Pharmacy.
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UKO WHIPS.
REPAIR WORK
A SPECIALTY.
ll East Libertv Street.
May 17-tf.
:- DR. J. H.
DENTIST.
1053 N. Main Street, over
Knight's ]?ook Store
Hours 3 to 2.30 ; 3.30 to 6.
one 210.
G. R. BARRINGER,
Surgeon Dentist.
Office over Chiua's Drug Store. Telephone No. 350.
The Very Best of Material Used.
Crown and Bridge Work a Specialty.
Office hours, 8 a. m. to 1 p m ; 2 p m. to 5 30 p. m.
WE GUARD OUB PATRONS' INTERESTS
Ile ferners' Bank and Trust Co.
lapi.al Stock $60.000. -:.
Undivided Profits S4.000.
C G. Rowland. Pm. R. F. Il aynsworth. V. Prst.
Ii. L. Edmunds. Cashier.
Deposits June 30, end of first
quarter after organization, ?113,
459 17.
Liability of stockholders, in
addition to capital stock, $60,000.
A g?rerai banking business.
Folicits your patronage and
guarantees every courtesy con?
sistent with good business meth?
ods.
.Muutie Coast
Effective August 6, 1905.
Passenger Trains arriving and leaving Sumter.
Train 35 Florence to Augusta Arrives 5 15 am
" 54 Colombia to Wilmington " 8 10 am
" "77 Flore: ce to Sumter " 9 20 am
*. *57 Gibson to Sumter u 9 ?0 am
M 52 Charleston to (yrtsenville Leaves 9 31 aa
" 46 Orangeburg to Charleston (Tuesd'y, Thured'y, Saturd'y) w 9 35 am
" *78 Sumter to Lucknow Leaves 9 ?0 am
** *77 Lucknow to Sumter Arrives 6 (0 pm
M 53 Greenville and Columbia to Charleston 6 30 on,
" 32 Augusta to Florence u 6 30 pm
" *f>6 Sumter to Gibson ** 6 50 po
" *78 Sumter to Floretee Leaves 7 10 pm
" 47 CharlestontoOrangebt:rg(Tue8d'y,Thur6d,y10atui-'yj " 8 20 pu.
. 55 Wilmington to Columbia M 9 35 pm
u 78 Sumter to Biebopville . Leaves 9 50 am
" 77 Bishopville to Sumter Arrives 6 00 pm
Freight Trains carrying Passengers.
rrain *24 Sumter to Hartville Leaves 8 15 am
*19 Sumter; to Robbins Leaves 10 00 am
*20 Hobbins to Sumter Arrives 7 30 am
*25 Hartsvilie to Sumter Arrives 9 10 pjr
Northwestern Railway.
Train *70 Camden to Sumter Arrives 9 00 au
44 *71 Sumter to Camden Leaves 9 36 am
" *68 Camden to Sumter :* 5 45 pm
** *72 Wilson Mill to Sumter Arrives 12 30 pm
M *73 Sumter to Wilson Mill Leaves 3 30 pm
" *69 Sumter to Camden ** 6 31 pm
Trains marked * daily except Sunday ; all other trains daily.
For further information, apply to
J. T. CHINA, Ticket Agent A. C. L.
FARMS FOR SALE.
List 149. Tract "3 acres 1 mile N. E. of City. 2"-3o acres cleared. All easily brought
under cultivation. Drainage facilities good. For a quick sale $2. >00.
List 148. Tract 577 acre?; 300 cleared. Buildings worth $3000. Piace on MayesvilW
road 7 miles f-om Sumter and 3 from Mayesville. Price $30 per acrec?7;10.
List 147. Tract 17 J acres, 60 cleared, 4 aiiles from city on ?ishopville and B. eding?
ton road?. F rice $ 0 per acre. ,$3400.
List 145. Tract 265 acres on Mo.es roa i 3 miles from city, 100 cleared, good build?
ings. Price $30.. $795D.
List 164. Tract 256 ?crea within half mile "f city. 160 acress in high state of culti?
vation. Buildings insured for S3 00. $12500.
List 112. 105 9cres 4 miles from city, near Bishopvihe and Brewington 'roads, 50
acres cleared, new 3 room dwelling. $263Q
SEE CITY LOTS IN DAILY ITEM ANO EVENING NEWS.
R. B. BELSER,
Attorney at Law Real Estate Broker
Harby Bldg. Court Pqr. Phon? 309.
W. A. BOWMAN, Prest. G. W. BOSHIMER, SecSTreas
The Sumter Banking
& Mercantile Company,
Suintez?, SS, Q.
mm^^m?apital Stock $50,000?^^*?
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Sole agents for the celebrated brand of "Wil?
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We are prepared to quote the very closest
cash or time prices on all lines of
Groceries, Fertilizers and Farmers'
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And invite your investigation before making
your arrangements for another year.
Come to see us. We will save you money,
and give you a hearty, courteous welcome.
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Mercantile Company,
Masonic Building, 2d door from the Postoffice.
Sumter, S. C.
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