Show arx WM KEEPING WELL WHAT IS t I 1 X ANTITOXIN DR FREDERICK R GREEN editor of HEALTH M MM WHAT Is antitoxin vv according to some enthusiastic but misinformed persons it Is a filthy animal product if this were true no one would be justified in using it but it true antitoxin Is a serum made from the th blood of the horse under regulations made by the united states government which insures absolute cleanliness I 1 why do we use horses blood to treat diphtheria for the same reason we use horses to pull our drays because the horse la is stronger than the man diphtheria Is caused by microscopic plants getting into the nose and throat and growing on the mucious membrane just as larger plants which are ara visible to the risked naked eye grow in the garden the tha individual diphtheria plants are too small to be seen but the beds of diphtheria plants in the childs throat form white spots these plants themselves would cause little trouble were it not for the toxins or poisons produced by the plants which are absorbed by the patient so the child who dies from diphtheria really dies from poison but why every exposed person take diphtheria and why every person who takes it die because healthy persons have bave in their blood a natural antidote which neutralizes the poison even if we do take the d disease I 1 sease this Is our natural protection when we are run down our supply of natural antitoxin Is lower than it should be and we are susceptible to infection when a child takes diphtheria its ita natural immunity Is low and it enough of its own antitoxin to resist the disease to help the weakened child we borrow the horses strength healthy horses are given small doses of diphtheria germs too weak to hurt them the these doses are gradually grada ally increased as the horses resistance increases until the horses have manufactured so much antidote or antitoxin that aiger their blood lp saturn saturated ted w iab jt |