“I do not think that the Anti-Tuberculous Lymph had anything to do with the man’s recovery, although I realize the difficulty of definitely analyzing just what did effect the cure. I did since that time use that preparation in several other cases without beneficial results so that I gave it up a good many years ago adding it to that large heap of pharmaceutical material ‘weighed and found wanting.’ ”
A physician in Texas also reported in the 1907 booklet as having had very satisfactory results with the Anti-Tuberculous Lymph Compound in one case of pulmonary tuberculosis was written to in October, 1919. He replied:
“I will state that subsequent use of this compound did not bear out the apparent good results from its use in the first case or two.”
In a “Bulletin” issued by the Sweeny concern in 1912, a Pennsylvania physician was quoted as having treated three cases with Anti-Tuberculin Lymph Compound with resultant cures. This physician was written to in October, 1919, and he replied:
“I have no knowledge of the use of my name by any Pittsburgh concern and know nothing of a lymph of the name of Sweeny; neither do I recollect ever curing three cases of tuberculosis with any lymph.”
The same “Bulletin” quoted the alleged statement by a Delaware physician to the effect that he believed Anti-Tuberculous Lymph Compound to be the most successful treatment of tuberculosis extant. This in 1912. To an inquiry sent in October, 1919, this physician briefly replied:
“Am not using it now.”
The result of the Propaganda department’s questionnaire was what might have been expected. Every physician who answered the inquiry regarding his previous and present opinions of Anti-Tuberculous Lymph Compound (Sweeny) declared, in effect, that he had long since ceased to have faith in its value or efficacy.
According to claims made in Sweeny literature, “Anti-Tuberculous Lymph Compound exercises its immunizing power through a specific action upon the blood cells.” The statement that “it destroys the tuberculosis germ when this is present in the system of the patient” is untrue. The facts are, no serum or lymph has thus far been proved to have any value in the treatment of tuberculosis even when fortified by “a small proportion of chloride of gold and soda” as one circular tells us the “lymph” is. In spite of research by competent investigators, we are still without any aid in the form of a serum in the treatment of tuberculosis.