Erysipelas toxin

Coley, W.B. (1894) Treatment of inoperable malignant tumors with the toxins of Erysipelas and the bacillus. Prodigious. Am. J. Med. Sci., 108,183-121. 

Indications Replete heat and fire toxins, exuberant heat in the three burners patterns. Septicemia, dysentery, pneumonia, acute urinary tract infections, ulcers, carbuncles, furuncles, boils, acute enteritis, acute icteric hepatitis, acute cholecystitis, encephalitis, acute conjunctivitis, acute pelvic inflammation, erysipelas, cellulitis, hemoptysis, epistaxis, urticaria, pruritus, cerebral hemorrhage, hypertension, anxiety, palpitations, insomnia, neurasthenia, and hysteria... 

Martin also describes treatment with cesium as producing remission in late-stage cancer patients. Another possibility described is a killed vaccine from the dead bacteria of the streptococcus of erysipelas. This vaccine is better known as Coley s Toxins. The genus is Streptococcus and the disease is known as erysipelas, an acute feverish condition with intense local inflammation of the skin and subcutaneous tissue. The treatment can be described as a form of immunotherapy. 

In treating subsequent hopeless cases, some went into complete remission but others died from the infection — and in still others the infection could not be induced. However, he made a killed vaccine of the streptococcus of erysipelas, and the successful result was called Coley s Toxins. 

In 1866 in Germany, Busch reported a cure for a histologically verified sarcoma of the face after an attack of erysipelas which induced fever. Busch suggested the possibility of heat being selectively lethal to neoplastic cells. About 25 years later, Coley (1893) administered bacterial toxins in cancer patients in New York which resulted in fever and led to regression of advanced and inoperable cancers. While Coley s toxins led to sustained response in some patients for up to 50 years, because of the uncertainty in preparations and biological activity of the mixed bacterial toxins (MBT) used by Coley, the method was later abandoned, as it proved disastrous for the patients. 

Symptoms and indications Common cold caused by wind-heat, cough, profuse sputum, measles, rubella, swelling and sore of throat, mumps, erysipelas, swelling abscess, sore and toxin... 

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