Treatment of pulmonary tbc with intravenous infusions of manganese chloride

Helms in his paper "Manganbehandlung bei Tuberculose", published in Deutsche med. Wochenschrift" 1925, № 29, published the results of treatment of pulmonary consumption with manganese chloride (manganum chloratum, MnCl2), molecular solution of which, at a dose of 0.03, he administered intravenously at intervals of 3-4-6 days. The results were as follows: out of 26 patients treated in this way, 17 had improvement, 7 cases remained unchanged, and 2 cases went with deterioration; there were 16 bacilliform bacilli at the beginning of treatment, and at the end of treatment 10 of these patients had tubercle bacilli disappeared. Consequently, the percentage of disappearance of Koch's bacilli when treating consumption patients with intravenous infusions of molecular solution of manganese chloride in the author was 62.