Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-21
Inocula tion for Consumption.

Among the subjects that came before the
recent Medical Convention at Berlin for
consideration was that of the treatment of
pulmonary complaints. DR.. Paul Gibier,
of the Pasteur Institute in New York, who
was member oil the Berlin convention, was
asked the other day by World reporter what
he thought the probable outcome would be of
the reported recent discoveries relating to
the treatment OF consumption.
81 have received copy" he replied, "of
an elaborate report by Prof. Grancher, of
the Pasteur Institute. Paris, which has just
been made to the French Academy of Medi-
cine, giving the results of experiments in
preventing consumption by vaccination.
The animals operated upon were rabbits.
Briefly it may be said that the object aimed
at by Prof. Grancher is to make the rabbits
consumptive-proof. The virus prepared
from tuberculosis bacillus (the germ Of con-
sumption) and is Of ten grades OF strength.
1.-THE inoculations were made at intervals
of ten days, care being taken to see that the
animals were in a per ectly healthy condi-
ton. After being subjected to this treat
ment the rabbits were inoculated with
virulent virus, but no development of
treatment was illustrated by inoculating
other healthy rabbits, which had not been
treated according to the new discovery, with
the virulent virus. In all these cases tu-
herculosis was quickly developed and the
animals died. None of the consumptiye-
proof rabbits were affected.
SIT will be seen that the treatment thus
far is a preventive of the disease, but further
experiments are being made with the hope
OF being able to apply the treatment, or one
somewhat similar, to the patients in which
tuberculosis has been fully developed"
Persons who have been travelling in far-off
lands have been bringing back with them
for some time now startling accounts about
the stimulating properties of various plants,
of which the native populations make use
to enable them to furnish considerable
amount of work without taking any food.
Thus in South America, says the New York
Herald, they tell us of the coca, mate aud
guarano plants; in Africa, of the kola nut;
and in Asia, of tea and coffee. But the re-
searches carried out by chemists have made
it known that nearly all of these plants,
with the exception of few, such as the
coca, contain caffeine. M. See has been
making experiments with species of cake
mace out of kola nut. and which Prof.
neckel mas Already trleu Win success In
the army. He has come to the conclusion
that caffeine and ats derivatives possess the
two following properties:
First-They facilitate muscular work and
allow it to be kept up for long time with
out fatigue.
Second-They allow us to 20 without food
for considerable length of time when we
have anything to do requiring great deal
of exertion.
Experiments made on series of 80 indi-
viduals in good health and without sign of
cardiac or pulmonary disease, have shown
that in the generality of cases the exerhon
OF running does not modify the respiratory
rhythm in persons under the influence of
caffeine; whereas without caffeine the loss
OF breath increases the number of respira-
tions threeiold. In a word it can be said
that caffeine places q man who is not IN
training in the condition of trained ath-
lete. Caffeine has not the property of TAX
ing the place OF food; it does nothing but
replace the general tonic stimulation pro-
duced by taking food.
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