Show NEEDLESS TORTURE An eastern contemporary has a story about how one Frank Merritt of ot New NewYork NewYork NewYork York has permitted himself to be In Inoculated inoculated Inoculated with tuberculosis in to prove the theory of the Inoculating inoculating lating physician Dr C C Carroll also als of Now York Tork that it Is possible to cure consumption In its most advanced stage Merritt is spoken of ot as a great eat hero one who is willing to sacrifice himself in the Interest of ot science He says saya My case of consumption was In Invited invited Invited I feel sick ick I am delirious at times and have a fever but I am happy for tor if It through my efforts a cure for the disease that took tool my young wife and an baby from me long ago is discovered I shall die feeling that my life lire on this earth thas not been all in vain And nd the doctor who inoculated him adds this testimony I will Ill surely cure him The Injections injections were made by b a process of dee elec electricity called That Th is the lungs were ere infected by Injecting the bacilli through the chest by means o othe ot oS the Roentgen ray And Amid I will cure him himIn himIn In n the same way I will inject the cure through the walls of ot the the th Roentgen ray ra There is no doubt In my mind about the success of ot the ex cx experiment experiment Our own opinion is that if It Merritt dies dias and he probably will Dr Carroll should be arrested for tor murder or at least for manslaughter The proposition proposition proposition tion is a very ery simple one If It it is ta pos possible possible po sible to cure a specially inoculated vic tic victim victim tim It should be possible to cure a vic vie victim victim tim of tuberculosis by Inheritance or accidental contraction There can hard hardly hardly hardly ly be any argument on this point And it should have been teen easy enough for Dr Carroll to find a patient at the stage stag described for experimental purposes |