| Show A DREAD BREAD DISEASE NO MORE The discovery of ot a cure for the dreaded disease diphtheria is among the he recent triumphs of medical act act- science enoe ence nce The remedy was found by a student in Dr Kochs Koch's famous labora labora- laboratory laboratory tory and I is to be thoroughly tested In InN N New w York If the bo board d of ot health can secure an appropriation of then ben the terror of ot that dl disease ease will have departed says the World A brief account of ot the new treat treat- treatment treatment ment will be of or interest to the general public Ten years ago it was discovered ered red that diphtheria is caused by a poison to which doctors have Oven the name of toxins Death is 18 du dui due to the poisoning of the blo- blo blood blod d when it ab ab- ab sorbs orbs this foreign substance pro pro- produced by the bacilli in the throat It has bas been found further that both animals and human buman beings can oan acquire a certain degree ot of immunity from the pOl the same principle we presume that the system can be made to tolerate other poisons nicotine arsenic etc According to Dr Cyrus Edson it if large animals such aa as horses horse cows goats are repeatedly inoculated with minute but increasing quantities ot of the be toxins derived from frolD cultures B ot of the diphtheria bacilli they become gradually tolerant of ot its poIsonous action and will withstand the he Intro intro- introduction notion of larger and larger quantities through the he immunity which is Ie ac so acquired from the smaller doses dOles The Immunity thus thul produced lithe is e result of the development in the blood of some lome substance anti antl lne which has bal the power of ot neutralizing the poison ollOn produced in diphtheria skid In tn animals Which have bave been highly that immunized is II re rendered dered capable of withstanding very very Jare large doses dosee of the tonne through 1 repeated inoculations the the blood at last even in small qua quad titles acquires toe the p er er of ot neutral neutral- neutralizing neutralizing l izing quantities very large alid even een fatal faal ties of the toxins t ine When animals have thus be been n immunized is 18 withdrawn from the circulation to In quantities Varying with the size size of the tama and the serum erum I derly derived d from frolic the blood so f drawn is employed in tn- tn injections in injections j underneath the skin eklo for the re treatment of ot cases of diphtheria The to antl-to toxins anti lne thus introduced in the be blood serum rum neutralizes the toxins ab- ab absorbed ah orbed I Into the circulation ot of the sick lick person from the throat and thus thul ren ren- render renders renders der ders the sick nick person artificially im- im impervious pervious to the action of ot the toxins Unfortunately however for the sapid rapid and general use Ule of this substance for tb the treatment of diphtheria its pro- pro production requires the constant surveillance surveillance lance of skilled and trained men A comparatively long period periods often olten to 0 six months is necessary to render animals impervious to the be disease so that bat their blood can be employed for forthe forbe forthe the treatment When thus thue rendered impervious thee thole animals can oan furnish as aa a rule sufficient blood to tr treat at only a eo com com- comparatively Jy aaU our all number of ot oases cases The of the substance must moat therefore necessarily be Costly and itcan it e can ean D only be produced la In sufficient J quantities and be placed at the he disposal of 01 poor people by municipal or state sanitary authorities It is Ie estimated that it will cost COlt to establish and maintain a diphtheria stable of sixty animals After Atter from tour four to six months treatment they y will be ripe Blood can then be withdrawn from them ready to be in- in injected injected in injected Into patients suffering Buffering from rom diphtheria According to observations made the conclusions arrived at are that any Iny person e exposed poled to the disease can caD by this thiB new method be rendered immune immone if it treated before the symptoms have developed and that the mortality i in n cases cased treated within the first thirty-six thirty or even forty eight hours of ot the Disease may be reduced practically to tu nil Att After r that time however the injections become less effective ve The health department of ot New York has baa received a considerable quantity of anti toxins from Dr Koch Koob and nd it is claimed that in every case where ap applied ap- ap applied plied it has ban proved successful |
