| Show THERE IS HOPE FOR THE lEPER American Physicians Obtain Pure Culture Outside Human H man Body Washington Nov 5 Leprosy le Is i making whet what is believed to be its Ita last lut stand against science s F Pro ni the coral island prison pr for the plague stricken in the Hawaiian group a few words have baTe been flashed fla led half way around the world to t l s telling tolling i of an achievement accounted second secoRd only to the discovery of ot the ba ha I cillus by b Hansen in 1879 1579 I Three thee ell ot tile States public PU health and ald marine hospital ser ncr service service vice after months tbs of ot unremitting toil have grown bacilli b in pure cul cui culture ture tUle outside till thin human body and in tiny thin glass gIas gla tubes in the laboratory the germs are now incubating in their third n Four times the scientists have hae taken the infection from the tile body bod of a leper and artificially propagated the bacillus on beet beef broth egg or the amoeba o othe othe ot the intestines of a guinea pig The I work of ot Dr Moses Yoses T 1 Clegg who de dt declared I dared less than ban a ay year ra ago o at Manila I i that he had round found aunt that the bacillus I IJ could be lie cultivated outside the human body ie is I verified and extended Dr I J Clegg has baa been ordered from the Ma Manila MaI M nila nUa scientific station to Molokai to as Hi assist I slat in the experiments This achievement of the scientists at atthe atthe atthe the governments leprosy Investigation station is the first step atop in the production tion of ot a vaccine era ora or a serum for fur the cure or prevention of ot leprosy Precise Precisely I ly ty the same ground has been covered by the men melt evolved the diphtheria I I and abd bd the serum erum m for In each of those thOle cases the growing of or orthe the germ in pure culture has been the th stepping stepling stone to the cure Dr DonaldH Donald Currie director of ot the tt station Dr Walter It U Brinkerhoff ani I Dr IL T are the men w wo o I have grown the cultures After four months careful work In which they had labored ll lored to grow EroW the bacillus In the amoeba of pond water guinea guir guin pig Intestines anti and other o het low forms animal life they were about to give i up defeated i Som of the tha tubes containing I specimens were ere about to be destroyed when ope of or the he Je men nn m n determined to tomake tomake make mak a last of f the cultures culture in ina Ina Ina a forlorn hope To his be he found the germ living The discovery j 1 L I spurred the investigators to new ef et fort tort Clegg Cia g had found that by feeding the bacillus of ot cholera to the amoeba the tbt bacillus did better That was waa supplemented by gelatine beef beet extract and e es and within three weeks the searchers era were werA rewarded again with the living germ geno Currie CunIe obtained a pure culture which means he has hz h eliminated the amoeba and aDd the cholera bacillus and now has hu the bacillus propagating of ot itself The others have been Men grown rown through three generations genera Aside Asid front from the hopes of at evolving a serum or a vaccine for tor a prevention or a cure cur of the scourge scientists hope ho 8 the investigators may ma find a which like would detect the disease in Its first stages t Dr Brinkerhoff who made some of the cultures at Molokai has b ha Just left lett the public health and marine hospital service to become be me professor prof of ot path pathology in the Harvard Medical school Clog the th original propagator of the bacillus will take t his bis t place |
