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Show i DISEASES ARE BEING MASTERED. Giving of medicine in the old man ner of thirty years ago is today known as doping and has ceased to be practiced. prac-ticed. Instead, the medical profession is resorting more to serums and ant! toxins and surgery Is performing wonders. won-ders. Gall bladders are being removed stomachs repaired, the appendix elim Inaled, the innei organs scraped But the big progress Is In the serums and in preventive measures. Reviewing the achievements in serums, ser-ums, an eastern writer tells of the gov- crnmeni work In immunizing human Ity He says "Some lime ago a way was found to i ascertain whether or not an Individual lean take diphtheria, and a mean Was developed, similar to vaccination i against smallpox, to protect those who are liable to It. The New York public schools are planning to see that every child belonging to the school system lis immune from diphtheria. A few, j drops of the prepared diphtheria toxin ! are injected into the arm of the subject. sub-ject. If a red spot appears in two or three days the person is not immun from the disease. If such a spot UOSJ j not appear, he Is immune Those who j arc liable to diphtheria are then safe-I safe-I guarded by Injections of a mixture of ! diphtheria toxin, or poison, and anti I toxin This vaccine does not pass out !of the system in a few month's, as the I lantlxtOXin given in diphtheria case iuoos Its protect is e influence seems 'to be permanent, or at least to lasl B number of years." The government is not alone in th.s 'great undertaking An Ogden doctor, who has returned after a close contact with the activities of the Rockefeller 'institute, says remarkable results an? ! being obtained b the cxp- rts who are studying disease present ion and are (laboring on new serums Human afflictions, af-flictions, never before held In control, are being mastered and the practice of medicine is undergoing great changes. |