Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-10-09
FIGHTING ulcac1as.
They Are Pittcd Against Zach other
with Wonderful Ecsnlts

with Wonderful Hcsalta.
"The newest thingin she medical world,'
said leading physician who s4ens abreast
with the science, ''is the cnrcfaa dipltheria.
1t is nothing less than curing Tint danger
Gus disease by inoculating the patient with
erysipelas DR. Dabtchinsky, Of st. Peters
burg, recently accidentally discovered The
antagonism which exists between the diph-
liberia microbe and that OF erysipelas by
observing how the sudden appearance OF
erysipelas in patient suffering with diph-
iberia caused a speedy cure of the latter.
THE Doctors own son was stricken with
n severe attack Of diphtheria, and MS all
the remedies which had been applied
proved fruitless death seemed Inevitable
Suddenly the symptoms of erysipelas set
in, when the lad seemed nearly half dead,
ind not the slightest cause could be as
signed for this new complication, and its
attendant dangers seemed only to hasten
the approach of the almost certain demise
of the victim.
During the next few hours his condition
grew visibly worse, and every moment the
dying out Of the scarcely Pickering spark
of life was apprehended. But on the fol
lowing morning the exhaustion had dimin-
ished considerably, the patient improved
rapidly and in Ia comparatively short time
was completely restored to health. This
accidental combination of the two mi
crobes called to Babtchinsky's mind the
doctrine to which Cantani had held.
'Soon after the recovery of his child the
doctor was called to the bedside of diph-
liberia patient who was dangerously
affected He was treating an erysinelas
case at the same time, and, encouraged by
the experience which he had made with lis
son, he decided to inoculate the poison Of
the erysipelas microbe into tho lower jaw
of his diphtheria patient The latter re
covered without the application Of auy
other remedy. From this time forth DR.
Babtchinsky hesitatel no longer to extend
his practice in this direction As he did
not always have erysipcle a patients on hand
when he needed the pois"l, he established
an artificial breeder of erysiDclas bacil-
larim. He succeeded in twelve more cases
in saving his diphtheria patients by apply
ing the erysipelas micrOhe. Only two pa-
tents died, because the inoculatory mi.
crobe was eflete, perhaps. But this need
not cause us to doubt the effectiveness Of
the new treatment, for the following OK
ample win demonstrate that it is still con
lirmcd by another case;
"SiX children were stricken almost simul-
taneously with diphtheria in one family,
Five Of them were inocilated with the cry.
sipelAs bacillarip, and they recovered in
wonderfully short time The sixth child
had been at once removed to q remote part
Of the city and died Of he dread epidemic.
Strange as this method is in itself it is no
less singular than the progress Of the cry
spelas is painless and quiet one, not &C.
companied by unfayorabe results upon
the general condition of the patient while
the curoof the diphthcria is being effected.
whether the theory that the crysipelas
microbe destroys the diphthcrin poison Is
founded upon fact, or is simply u dclusion,
leaving the cause Of these wonderful rccov-
cries to be sought for in other quarters, we
care less at the present moment for the So
luton Of this purely scientific question, as
our interest ccnters primarily Ia the re
sult which alone is satisfactory to the lay
man. The close and controlling obaerya-
tons TO which phySi oians will subject the
new method will soon demonstrate wheth-
err DR.. Babtchinsky has found the real on.
envy Of the diphtheria microbc, and that
we arc rid Of n foe which demands annual
ly the lives Of thousands of our little ones. "
Cincinnati Enquirer.