Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-02-03 | Page 25 | Step forward Made by French Science

STEP FORWARD 11 Bl FRffl SCIENCE Method Is Discovered by Which Innoculation Does Not Cause Indisposition. DEATH RATE LOWERED Ninety-nine Lives Are Now Saved. Where 100 Were Formerly Sacrificed. By EENEST P. ORE, International News Service Staff Correspondent. PARIS, KVh. French silence lias miula a fetop forward that not only aavca ninety-nine lives where 100 were lonneily senrtltred, but KuarHnt.:es .omparatlve Immunity lo the entire army (rum the dreii scourge 0f typhoid fever through a new procesa of aerlnatlori that does not put tlie innoculaled soldier on the lint or Indisposed. Througli the use of aim-typhoid aeeine In 11 new l'orm. ended llpo- a:-eine, the government h;i r.-duenl tlie lnorlalily anionic soldiers from typhoid to one In Imi.une. as compared vv 1 1 1 1 tile pi e-uar tlKiileH of 1"D 'In every l"o,uu". In addition, addi-tion, tlie Injection of tlie germ culturo doee not piodtne a tcer In tlie patient nor cause Idin any inc.uivenlciK p i.evond the temporary sc.iat'.h of the svnue. Made Compulsory. A short time prior to in declaration of hostilities, a law was ).., d 111 Fram e making anti-tvplioid vaccination compulsory. compul-sory. The vaccine seium was usually Injected In a watery solution that frequently fre-quently caused excruciating smTering. swelling of the arm about the point ot contact and frequently a hlKh fever thai Invalided numbers of troops for davs and often weeks. To be effective the fienmi had to contain con-tain a culture of two billion mlcroiies. whose sudden app'flranee In the human svsiem mlKht well he calculated to cause distress because of their rapid spread throughout the veins and anerles. 1 L was (or tics leason that the anu-v acdne wa." usiiallv administered in from two to (our Iniedions. dmendinp upon the patient a phvsnal condition. Thus every time a hepojermh- was used, the soldier hud to be retired Irom active dut- unl. ss he was of extraordinarily strong constitution. Important Discovery. Experiments made i,y the leading chemists chem-ists of the nation resulted in the early tHc0erv that the illness o( the troops was brouBht about by the rapidity with which the watery solution and lut c'liinie of microbes whs assimilated by the blood, th injections o( the l,t(ith bacilli and tlie paratvphold cultures lreUent'y placing plac-ing 75 per cent o( the troops on the si k list. As the effecUvetiess of the vaccine onlv eontin'ies lor aiout a year, a lare tvin. of the rrenert forces was thus continually con-tinually indisposed and resulted In the loss o vaioable units. The chief surgeon of the navy. Dr. I-e Moignic. was one of the nrst to discover that hy rnakitir ihe injections or vaccinations vaccina-tions with an oilv or greasv stihstance the spread of the oac.illi tiirouh tiie system was less rapid, although as thorousthlv elficaciotis- After a number of carefully conducted exnerlinents. Dr. I.e Moicnic ascertained that through the employment of jeerm cultures contained In oil the two billion bacilli could be. Introduced simultaneously, simul-taneously, without the necessity of three or four piqures.