Show CURE FOR DIPHTHERIA Dr Dalbj Recommends the Council Buy Antitosine REDUCTION OF MORTALITY IT IS AT OXCE A PREVENTATIVE AXD A CURE TIle City Should Provide tile Hoard oC Health Witli a Supply at Once Figures From Authentic Records Showing Its EfQcncy In the report of the board of health recently filed with the mayor Dr Wm T Dalby health commissioner strongly urges the procurement of Chat wonderful wonder-ful cure and preventative of diphtheria antitoxine Much has been said and written concerning con-cerning this marvelous remedy As a matter of fadt t ithe telegraphic reports have been replete with facts bearing1 upon its successful application All these have served to awaken a I great interest in the matte Not only i I among medical men but those outside the profession Humanity has stood I for years with outstretched tends im rtormg thiS fivuternity of physic to save I its littls ones from the ravages of the deultpoyer whose stroke was so deadly < in it3 nature I i I God never intended that the Ktth i I ones should dla thus He maant that I I I they should live and grow and pass away only when all of lifes maaeura Should have been filled was the imploring im-ploring cry surd back from the study of edence has oh how often how oflten come the response Patience tire hour Is 1 coming I Day tier day ihs men of brain sat and pondered studied worked till I finaCly a ray of light appeared which I i gradually broadened into G golden shower of hope Then more and more effulgent it became until today we sit in the hligii I bg noon of realization 1 I Dr DaHfay was found in his stud yesterday by one of tine staff of its paper and questioned regarding his views upon the subject I j I sbjeot I is the duty of the council ito procure pro-cure the lard of health a supply of anilitoxinfe he sad > < and I hope to see it done very soon Not that it is needed right at this time for the city is comparatively free from diphtheria at this time But the disease Is 3 pei i i culiar one and an epidemic or an endemic I shouttl say is likely to breakout break-out at any time I do not mean toy this hat present conditions indtoate an out fctJak but that from the extraordinary nature of the complaint it is just as likely to make its appearance one day as another S no1er When it does the poor people are the ones who suffer Many of them are unable to tain ithe servites of a physician and it is very hard for a I i poor man to sit down and see his little ones taken away despite all his uneducated unedu-cated intelligence arid effort can do to i i save i I hope and trust that speedy action may be taken I have acton have recommended recom-mended it in my report in very plain language langage I j Have any of the other physicians in the city a supply was asked None that I am aware of There may b but I think S it is very doubtful Antitoxine as Org of the latest discoveries dis-coveries of medical science Iti is not only a cure but a preventative For instance take a family of six children I One of them is attacked with diphtheria diph-theria The antitoxine is administered administer-ed 1 to the sick one and those who arc unatfeteted The one who is ill gets well with very few exceptions the others do not contract the ailment r has been state l that the administering I admin-istering of antitoxine causes other diseases dis-eases isthat true Antitoxine when pure does not produce other diseases although in some instances changes of a certain character have been noted None however how-ever of a decidedly o rSeiious nature This concluded the interview In order that the readers of this paper may know what antitoxine is the following is submitted by the medical reporter who has been cramming on the subject ever since supper time The modus operand of obtaining it is this A portion of the matter found in the throat of an in feoted patient is removed and placed either in gelatine or bouillon but the latter is preferable and corked uptight up-tight air tight The vessel is then placed in a uniform temperature for a given time where the bacilli multiply mul-tiply very rapidly At the conclusion of the assigned period the contents are removed and filtered thoroughly thus obtaining what might be classified classi-fied in language for those unacquainted unac-quainted with medical terms as the I real germs A sound horse no matter what his age so long as he is free from disease i is then inoculated with this virus or germs say twice in the first 24 hours In the meantime the animal is carefully care-fully and most cleanly housed fed regularly on the best of diet and treated as particularly as might be desired In the next 48 hours he is given more hypodermic injections which are increased from day to day until no perceptible effect is noted As may be anticipated the horse is sick when first operated upon very sick sometimes but gradually all traces disappear dis-appear and the animal eats drinks and sleeps as well as though he had not been operated upon When the animal has arrived at this stage his jugular vein is opened and as much blood as can be taken from him without with-out destroying life is extracted From this blood is extracted the serum which is passed through a special filter In order to remove any blood corpuscles or chance bacteria and the result is antitoxine j This antitoxine given a child produces j pro-duces the effect almost similar to vaccination i vac-cination in this that it renders the little one incapable of taking the disease dis-ease It is an utter impossibility to contract diphtheria when the proper amount of the fluid has been injected or where enough has been administered adminis-tered to produce the right effect At this point in the narration it may not be out of order Ito > state that despite the good whvali this wonderful discovery I discov-ery is accomplishing an aggregation1 oft of-t most profound cranks thalt an infinite in-finite ereator ever let live on this footstool foot-stool known as aniiviViseotionisits has protected against anfeiftoxlne because be-cause forsooth the method of obtainIng obtain-ing it is cruelty to a imaHe Ths good work will doubtless go on I notwithstanding the protest of t5ie anti vivisectionlsts thereto antII From a repOTt mom the United States i treasury department marine hospfcd service issued Ja mar 18 to gleaned C rew figures showing the QfiloiGy of the reatnvmt D H Hoses of the insti katie of infectious diseases of Berlin ram March 15 to December 1 1894 frea > ted 117 casss of dipihltlheriai with intttoxlne with only 13 deaths a mortality mor-tality o 111 per o = It Of 73 cases raited within itoree days after the onset of the disease there was only one death a montiaility of 14 per cant and in this case deatti resulted from pneumonia pneu-monia Previous ito the use elf antitoxine tha S morlbaIity of cases wan 188900 524 per < v d + tt I tt t S S cent 189091 601 per cent 1S9192 GOsl per cent 189293 564 per cent Since the list of 117 cases mentioned was printed 50 cases were treated with a Joss 5 cent os of patients or 10 per cent At one hospital In Ben 533 oases of diphtheria were treated 303 with antitoxins anti-toxins and 230 without The mortality of 478 tie per 303 Cent was132 per cent of the 230 With these > figures and aCt before them it that tem seems scarcely provable Ihat the city council can refrain from adopting Dr Dalbys suggestions Prance has adopted aititoxine for army use and many cities and towns have voted money for the same object ob-ject New York is doing the same and wlhlle as ye the government has taken no steps a bill is being proposed providing for its introduction in the army and navy I |