United States Consul Harlan W. Brush, of Milan, Italy, transmits information regarding the reported discovery, by Prof. Joseph Levi, of Milan, of a cure of tuberculosis by the use of a specially prepared iodine. Prof. Levi, who for many years has been connected with the Veterinary School of Milan, has practiced the use of iodine on horses for the last twenty years, and now announces that by his new method consumption can not only be arrested, but be completely cured. He says:

It is a well known fact that iodine can immediately convert itself into vaccine and become a virus of the most active and deadly kind. It follows from this that a person affected with tuberculosis becomes capable of making by himself and in himself, his own curative serum, ready for healing purposes when this iodine can circulate intelligently in the blood. And it is precisely this which I have obtained by my new method.

Prof. d'Auria, of Naples, made many encouraging experiments with iodine in cases of tuberculosis, as also Durante before him, but from what is alleged, Prof. Levi has now brought former theories and experiments to a definite solution.