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Show mum of sep j SAVES GIRL'S LIFE United States Department of Agriculture Makes Serum for Olive Poison The serum that saved the life of Lena Delbano, after the other six members mem-bers of her family had died from eating eat-ing poisonous olives In New York, was made in tho United States department of agriculture from the blood of a sheep that had boon immunized against bacillus bolulinus poisoning. The scrum was rushed to Now York by tho bureau of animal industry on request re-quest from tho United States public health service. Three members of' the Delbano family wore alive when the request was made, but one of Ihcso died before the serum reached New York and another was so nearly dead that treatment was unavailable. The little girl was the only one with sufficient suffi-cient vitality lefl to make possible a, test of the efficacy of the scrum. The department of agriculture hap-paned hap-paned to have the live-saving sorum because of the fact that the bacillus bolulinus is suspected of causing what; is known as forage poisoning of i horses. In Investigating that subject, i the scientists of tho bureau of animal j , industry made extensive experiments I with serums. It was discovered thnt! there are two strains of the bacillus boiulinus. They look alike and tho1 poisons they create produce tho oame effect, but immunization against one' dos not afford immunization against j the other. The two strains are commonly com-monly rofcrred to around the bureau! as "the olive strain" and "the cheese strain," or sometimes as "strain A"! and "strain B." The three recent instances of olive, poisoning one in Michigan, one in' Ohio, and the third in Montana were! all caused by "the olive strain" or1 "strain A" of the bacillus botulinus. ' Tho veterinarians, therefore, were rea sonably certain that the scrum affording afford-ing protection against the poison generated gen-erated by "strain A" botulinus woulai be effective in tho New York rase, I and It proved to be so in the one case where it could be given a fair trial. I nn I |