Salt Lake Telegram | 1931-07-20 | Page 6 | Freaks and Oddities in Science News

Freaks and i lo In Sc Science ence News ys f There is hope that eventually artificial specific protective substances superior to those formed during natural convalescence from disease may be produced in the chemical laboratory and SCIENCE may become the main TO tic instruments In the prevention ID AID IN and treatment of or c CONVALESCENCE Numerous specific antitoxIns antitoxins antitoxins anti anti- toxins and other protective antibodies antibodies antibodies anti anti- bodies have already been synthesized in research laboratories laboratories lab lab- oratories with the possibility that In time such guch syntheses syntheses syn- syn theses will be to w perfected as to be of clinical value Up until five H years jears ago the generally accepted theory theory the thew ory of specific bodily defense against disease was that proposed b by Dr Paul a 3 German who assumed that hat a minute sample of or a specific chemical defense against each and every infection is preexistent preexistent pre-ex- pre stent in normal human flesh together with a 3 logical log mechanism for Its emergency increase in times of specific need Many new previously nonexistent specific biochemical defenses are synthesized as a re- re suIt of or interaction between infections and tissues of or orthe the he body This offers the thc ho hope of or making new dis dis- dis fighting ease agents in the laboratory