So far as we have been able to learn, Rogers, for some unexplained reason, did not call into existence out of the vastly deep a “Japanese-American Tuberculosis Research Society.” This consumption cure apparently died of inanition.
Then came the “Auto-Hemic Serum” with its inevitable sequel, the “National Society of Auto-Hemic Practitioners.” Another adjunct to the serum exploitation is the North American Journal of Homeopathy, the official organ of the “Auto-Hemic Practitioners” and of the “American Medical Union” and possibly of some other “societies”—but not representative of homeopathy!
WHAT IS AUTO-HEMIC THERAPY
What is this new therapy? According to a very lurid poster, it is described as “The Missing Link in Medicine”—possibly referring to the ease with which one may make monkeys of certain physicians. More specifically, although still vaguely, we learn:
“It consists in giving the patient a solution made by attenuating, hemolizing, incubating and potenizing a few drops of his or her own blood, and administering it according to a refined technic developed by the author.”
Elsewhere it is said to consist:
“... in taking five drops (or some multiple of five) of blood from a vein and putting it into nineteen times as much sterilized, distilled water, and incubating it at fever temperature for twenty-four hours, and then making further dilutions according to the needs of the case, as can be determined only by a physician skilled in its use.”
Neither of these statements, of course, describes the “refined technic” of those “skilled in its use,” but those who are interested can, by sending Dr. L. D. Rogers, “One Hundred Dollars cash-in-advance” get a mail-order course in this new marvel.
But if it is rather expensive to learn just how to use “Auto-Hemic Serum,” it does not cost so much to learn what the “serum” will do. Rogers has written a book on the subject, “Auto-Hemic Therapy,” which is used as a premium for subscriptions to the North American Journal of Homeopathy, price $5.00 per year, payable in advance. In the book Dr. Rogers modestly assures his readers that he considers his discovery more important than that of Alexis Carrel, winner of a Nobel Prize.