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Show .M..ijaufr:f.MT. cz:::::u3BeQ nit; )y 1)1, '. SO IMIl A BHLXSOX ANTIBODIES ' Some people go throng) life and die of old age without with-out contracting contagious diseases. Tt is not because they are not exposed, for they run the same risks of getting typhoid fever, diphtheria, etc., as others vho succumb to these germs when they come I m contact with them. "Why is this?" you ask. You see some folks are immune to certain diseases, say for instance typhoid. For example, some 1 thirsty travelers traveling thru the country stop and drink water from a well. Maybe the ! water is cool and refreshing. They do not know that it is contaminated con-taminated with typhoid germs until one or two of them come down with typhoid fever. periments on dogs, there were many terrible cases of hydrophobia hydro-phobia constantly occurring thruout the world, but he injected in-jected dogs with weakened hydrophobia hy-drophobia germs and gradually gave them stronger doses until he could permit them to be bitten bit-ten by very rabid dogs without developing the disease. The inoculated animals had developed antibodies with which to fight the germs of hydrophobia. hydropho-bia. What a vast amount of human anguish it has saved and dog suffering too. Jenner observed that milkmaids milk-maids who had sores on their hands from inoculation with cow pox did not contract smallpox. And that gave him the idea of vaccinating folks with smallpox virus to prevent their catching smallpox. Though he did not know it, the inoculation of the smallpox virus stimulated the body into forming antibodies with which to fight smallpox germs. So much has how been found out about antibodies and their production, that children can be successfully vaccinated against many diseases which were formerly very common and very fatal. Typhoid fever, which had been a scourge of armies, was practically wiped out during the World War, because the soldiers received the typhoid vaccine and formed antibodies with which to fight the typhoid germs. Much yet remains to be found out about preventing diseases but our faithful scientific workers work-ers are in their laboratories toiling to wrest the secrets from nature that she has not yet revealed. I Why do some of them fall vic-! vic-! tims to the deadly germs and others escape? Those who drank the typhoid-infested water and yet escaped the disease had something in their blood that protected them from the infection. infec-tion. ! This something is called antibodies. anti-bodies. They help police the body. They are good fighters, for when they apprehend a sulking sulk-ing typhoid germ sneaking around trying to destroy an individual, indi-vidual, they pounce upon him and beat him to a pulp. Some folks take diphtheria, or influenza, or what not, on exposure. ex-posure. Others do not, because they are protected by the antibodies anti-bodies of the diseases in question. ques-tion. Pasteur, the great scientist, found out how to create antibodies anti-bodies in the blood. He inoculated inocu-lated animals with weak solutions solu-tions of germs. The animals got sick, but they recovered. He repeated the experiment and injected stronger doses, but the animals remained in health. This was because they had developed de-veloped antibodies in th,eir blood with which to fight the disease. Before Pasteur made his ex- |