Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1911-10-28 | Page 1 | Spinal Meningitis Declared Curable

SPINAL PINAl MENINGITIS I lARED CURABLE I. I Discovery Announced Announced An- An flounced by Director of Rockefeller Institute International News Service e York lark Oct 27 Dr Simon Flex Flex- hf itt u director r t of r the Rockefeller hit for Medical Research announced I ud l a way to the annual conference of ot san san- ir officers of at the state in Carnegie tl that epidemic spinal Ills Til hr could i no now non be bc controlled absolutely r. r fM Flexner said sald the cure curc had been per- per through the discovery er o of a new ot of using the serum It is now nox im t d Into the c cerebral spinal membrane mem- mem brane t ran Instead of In into to the blood bloo c. c meningitis In the child alt toti the thc doctor will vill with the Uon or this new ne' method of or treat treat- r it e be bt not tenth one-tenth as dangerous aug rous as a 4 ij It formerly been and nd has tal taken a lar large e sum um of mone money i t. t a lon lOng time mc to tu perfect this cure i Is It 1 the e first time I have announced U as t ne-j ne on Iv very r recently 1 I deter- deter e erum to m my own own satisfaction that the rn ill do what we claim it will do i J 1 f. f W. W v S S. S Magi Magill 11 of ot tho the state h hyl hy- hy l laboratory Oratory Pressed expressed his CI the w way I ln in which man many phy lEv l- l Ev Were ere ci using diphtheria antitoxin I I antitoxin ul y tune time w we send fund to to j. t doctor un any n for diphtheria there Is a Sheet of 1 Instructions Said MId enclosed he t but ut out of ot cases I found round only ne the le had tried to follow CoUo- directions Of ot cases caties I looked Into all of or the s died and In ani ever every Instance nt toxin h had been used but ha had not tn uSed correct correctly The t from Irom TH per pr r In France this Is three to four In by country it is 19 sixteen to lo seventeen the The case I have jU just l cited about misuse ot of antitoxin Is a good rca rca- o on I 1 think think- 4 I