THE NEW CURE FOR CONSUMPTION by J. Compton Burnett

For a number of years, notably during the past decade, the medical branch of the scientific world have been intently occupied and hard at work with the minute living causes of infections and other diseases, and secondarily with the poisons or viruses of the disease processes as a cure or prophylactic of the self-same diseases; more particularly is M. Pasteur best known to the world at large in this connection.

But wherever the cure of disease is concerned, the practitioners of scientific homeopathy have ever been in the van, and it is therefore not surprising that they should have been before all others in using the virus of consumption where-with to cure consumption itself. But a number of years ago, the leaders of the dominant sect of the medical profession raised a hue and cry against those of the homeopaths who were so unspeakable as to use the virus of consumption against the disease itself; and for fear of an unbearable amount of opposition and ignorant prejudice, the practice was discountenanced and almost discontinued – a few only publishing here and there a striking case of the cure of consumption by the virus of the process itself.