“The remedy seems to cure tuberculosis in all its forms with equal celerity and certainty. The evidences indicate that it does not matter how far the disease has progressed, if there be tissue of the attacked organ remaining sufficient to sustain life, the disease can be wholly eradicated and the patient restored to health. This is indicated alike in tuberculosis of the lungs, of the throat, of the bladder, of the kidneys.”
The booklet stated further that patients might be treated at one of two places: at the offices of the sanatorium in the city of San Francisco, or at the sanatorium itself near Glenwood. The cost of treatment at the sanatorium was to be $1,000, which would entitle “the patient to residence and attention there for four months.” According to the leaflet, “This is regarded as a period sufficient to restore the patient to health whatever be the stage of his disease; provided only, as we remark, that he has enough left of the infected organ to sustain life with the T. B. expelled.”
“At the end of four months the patient is sent to his home, not alone relieved of his disease, but in a highly vigorous state of health.”
All this, as stated previously, was in 1917. And yet people are still dying of tuberculosis!
In March, 1920, Rahtjen (so the newspapers have it) was offering a “New-Life Fluid.” According to a San Francisco paper, Dr. Philip Rahtjen “announces the discovery that by the injection of secretions from the ductless glands the human body may be reinvigorated.” The paper described the discovery “as a long step forward in the fight to counteract old age” and stated that a syndicate was being formed by Rahtjen and others to “produce the extract in such quantity that it may be available for every one.” The newspaper article showed the learned doctor in a laboratory apron in the characteristic pose of the newspaper “scientist” pouring something from a beaker into a test tube—and gazing intently at the camera while doing it! This was in March, 1920; yet people still grow old.
Within the last month the Los Angeles Examiner has heralded some more wonderful accomplishments of Rahtjen. According to this paper Rahtjen has:
1. Isolated the “germ of pernicious anemia.”
2. Found the “serum” for the cure of this disease.
3. Discovered the secret of human virility.
4. Evolved a fluid “from the glands of selected bulls and cows” which will “restore ‘pep’ for worn-out human bodies! Give added weight, clearer eyes, brighter minds, quicker bodies and a generally ‘firmer grip’ on oneself!”