Show I NEW CURE FOR DIPHTHERIA > European Hospitals XractlclnfiT Method of Blood Inoculation So many thousands of children are annually carried off by diphtheria the sufferings caused by the disease are so Agonizing and the remedies it hertaatr I I the disposal the me 1 e nn shim i I sh-im that the neW t V 2tco s action into the Berir jfc joa s uuw of a new and effi cions cure for r this fell malady cannot be regarded otherwise than as a matter of public interest II terest I Very little has been heard about this remedy owing to the fact that the distinguished dis-tinguished bacteriologists engaged in its discovery have been unwilling to subject themselves to the same disadvantage disad-vantage as Dr Koch whose cure for consumption has been unjustly proclaimed pro-claimed a failure merely because it was published to the world prematurely and before it was ready for medical application ap-plication The new cure briefly speaking speak-ing is one of inoculation with this differencethat instead of injecting the poison into the system of the patient pa-tient one injects the blood of an animal ani-mal which has been inoculated with a weak culture of the diphtheria bacteria bacte-ria the virus of the latter being however how-ever of so weak a character that it does not affect the animal with the malady but merely renders it immune thereto Repeated experiments made of late have shown that a few drops of blood from a horse or any other animal thus rendered immune injected into a human hu-man being suffering from diphtheria are sufficient to arrest and cure the disease dis-ease Of course it is too soon as yet to quote the statistics of the few hundreds of cures which have been effected in Berlin and London by this treatment which is to be fully discassed in all its complicated scientific aspects at the forthcoming international congress of hygiene in September at Budapest But whatever the ultimate result of its application ap-plication it has at least one advantage over all other forms of inoculation hitherto hith-erto discoverednamely that the matter mjectedrinto the system o tpatientx tiarmless = i e V1It orf JU1e |