Show says anthrax k Is I 1 not lot fatal importance of earby treatment Is emphasized by new liew york specialist SERUM CURES PER CENT inspection of hides and furs under un d er government regulation Is urged by doctor cura takes about ten days new york dr douglas simmers director ot of flie lie pathological caboni of ellehue P and allied hospitals said that the case of 0 frederick 11 II post polo placer pin vr who was discharged as cured of anthrax from bellevue was most important in that it may era em that anthrax Is not a fatal mr posts cise case was mas diagnosed in time doctor said that Is tile the most important thin thing get an anthrax cae early enough and a cure iq 1 practically certain this Is the fifth case to be cured in bellevue with wath the serum prepared hy by the united states department of animal industry 1 I would like to make it as emphatic c a as possible in his connection that hat use in newspapers of the phrase deadly anthrax has a bad effect not only on oil the public generally but on any patient that may be under treatment you a sufferer from anthrax is fully conscious throughout the disease i lie ile Is just as clear mentally as any one up to perhaps the last hour if it chances to bo be a case that was not taken in time and cannot be cured that la Is a peculiarity of anthrax bad for morale now in mr posts case lie he feeling in excellent spirits and he be wanted the newspapers there was no reasonable excuse for far not giving ilion hem to him when lie he got them lie he real read about deadly anthrax and that it be known for ten days whether lie he would live or not and it particularly good medicine for his morale mr post it happened was a man of fine courage hilgh intelligence and rare gaminess ga moness menless lie ile was a splendid patient so reading about the mythical deadliness of anthrax in the newspaper accounts have as bad on an effect on him as it might rat but there are other patients suffering from anthrax here and there about without the country and the chances era am there will be more in bellevue the public should boi ill ile be educated as to mint the disease really is anthrax at the ou outlet tet Is manifested fly by a characteristic lesion lelon tit at the point of inoculation tills this usually Is anthe on the face as in mr posts case it looks like in an ordinary pimple red and itching within a lay day or so the pimple breaks down into n large blackish nicer surrounded by an enormous but painless swelling that one pimple and swelling Is ill all the vf visible Ible sign there may be of the ahe disease but if the swelling is on the jbf cheek as in mr posts ease case it may be enormous closing the eye now if the disease Is taken right there a 1 cure Is practically certain no one with any such symptoms should wait in an instant any one who has fins seen the characteristic lc lesion ion of anthrax could not fill fall to identify it instantly across a room serum Is effective at bellevue the percentage of cures with n ich the government goern ment serum scrum Is IR 10 per cent of the 20 cases treated in the last three years seven have died tint pat tho list last five which are the only ones in which the serum scrum lias has been used lime heen been cured the disease Is caused hy by a large 1 arg spore benrino bacillus very cry resistant to all forms of Infection IN it yields most moat readily to steam under pressure the probability Is that mr pot post was infected by a having brush proper of the brush br uch would have mined it of hides and furs for anthrax should be a matter of go government regulation said dr charles examiner nho TV ho norris chief medical ex it Is had listened to the discussion very nearly impossible to disinfect aitho without tit destroying the object dasin felted I 1 know of only one process and it Is a long iong one about the only thing I 1 can set sec tor for tiny any one to do at tile the pre frent time I 1 is to take a chance and if lie he contracts anthrax get proper treatment with the serum scrum immediately it la 14 e etsy I to cure it ir if it Is diagnosed in time there arent elou enough ii cases to alarm tiny any one doctor Sy bymers Mers said but it crops up here and there fill all over the country and tile the n newspapers call it deadly and every one tie gets worried mr post came to the ho hospital on the fourth day of the disease and he wn was g in time the earlier the better ho however weier where it gets dangerous Is when the infection gets into the blood the cure takes about ten days doctor said that the he anthrax bacillus first was discovered in 1875 it really Is cultivated in a laboratory he added |