Show SCIENCE AND DISEASE The discovery of disease germs genns and the evolution of the treatment of germ diseases by antitoxins marked a new era ra in medical and surgical science I Ian an era of preventive medicine of pro sanitation which has revolutionized revolutionized the treatment of disease and andis is gradually delimiting the danger zones of humanity Long before the discovery of the reasons for Its success renner Jenner applied the same system to the treatment of smallpox that Pasteur afterward showed was applicable to other dis cares a es That Is Jenner his b by Inoculation with virus Irus and by his discovery practically abolished the dread of smallpox which 4 Y w y Wb b VL 4 ass mankind Behring with his anti antitoxin antitoxin toxin for diphtheria has probably done more for the world than all its bene benefactors benefactors factors ot of a century Taking the old rates of mortality from diphtheria as asa asa a basis of calculation it is shown that the antitoxin treatment saved In this country alone during a 0 single year persons who would otherwise have died of the disease On the corn com common cornmon mon commercial theory that a human life Ufe is worth the saving raving to ono one nation by the work of a scientist fig figures figures ures an enormous sum the tragedies It has averted the heartaches saved the joy it has brought to the anxious ones Is Incalculable Now it Is announced that Dr Simon Flexner director of the Rockefeller In Institute for Medical Research Is be believed to have discovered a serum for meningitis or spotted fever The announcement may be premature because It does not come directly from Dr Flexner and the data Involved in three cases ases furnish the foundation of the tho claim but those cases were so difficult and apparently hopeless that the probabilities justify the hope ot of final su success If this disease can bo be conQuered there is hope that tuberculosis may finally be conquered The obscurity of spinal meningitis the suddenness with which I it reaches the fatal stage the Ignorance ance anc of Its methods o of transmission and the nature of the dIe ease itself have alt contributed to tomake toI make It a horror to patient and I dan clan alike Herein Here in Utah fr for a i tIre tIreS S H it assumed assumed almost epidemic proportions and elsewhere in the country certain localities suffered dreadfully from It The man who can dispel Us its terror and subject It to control will deserve to rank with th the greatest of benefactors |