The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1894-11-05
NEW CURE FOR DIPHTHERIA.
European Hospitals Practicing Method OF

European Hospitals Practicing Method OF
Blood incubation.
So many thousands of children are
annually carried off by diphtheria, the
sufferiugs caused by the disease are so
agonizing and the remedies hitherto at
the disposal Of the medical profession so
inadequate that the news of the intro
duction into the Berlin and London hos
pitfalls Of a new and efficacious cure for
this fell malady cannot be regarded
otherwise than as matter CT public III
terest.
Very little has been heard about this
remedy, owing to the fact that the dis
tinguished psychologists engaged in
its discovery have been unwilling to
subject themselves to the same disad-
vantage as DR.. Koch, whose cure for
consumption has been unjustly pro-
claimed failure merely because it
was published to the world prematurely
and before it was ready for medical ap-
plication. The new cure, briefly speak
ing, is one of incubation, with this
difference-that, instead of injecting
the poison into the system of the pa
tient, one injects the blood of an ami
mai which has been inoculated with a
weak culture of the diphtheria bacte-
ria, the virus of the latter being, how
ever, of SO weak character that it does
not affect the animal with the malady,
but merely renders it immune thereto.
tod IL Id
have shown that few drops of blood
from a horse or any other animal thus
rendered immune injected into hu-
man being suffering from diphtheria
are sufficient to arrest and cure the dis
ease. Of course it is too soon as yet to
quote the statistics of the few hundreds
of cures which have been effected in
Berlin and London by this treatment,
which is to be fully discussed in all its
complicated scientific aspects at the
forthcoming international congress Of
hygiene in September at Budapest. But,
whatever the ultimate result of its ap-
plication, it has at least one advantage
over all other forms of incubation hith-
erto overwhelmingly, that the matter
injected into the system of the patient
is free from poison and consequently
harmless. New York Tribune.
A Unique Prescription For the Liver.
A young clerk whose sedentary life
and lack of exercise have left him with
sluggish liver and all the evil conse-
quences thereof visited a we'll known
physician recently and was advised to
regulate his diet to the utmost plain
ness and to take horseback exercise daily.
The young man frankly told the doctor
that he could not afford to keep or to
hire a horse. The doctor asked him
where he was employed and was told
that he was clerk in a certain corpora
ton which is housed in an enormous
building on Broadway, and that his
Office was on the tenth floor.
Quoth the doctor: That's just the
thing You don t need to hire horse.
Walk briskly down the 10 flights of
stairs three times day, and it will do
your liver just as much good as if you
were jolted ON horseback during all
hours ride. -
The gentleman's friends will proba-
bly, appreciate after they have read this
why he persists in walking down stairs
at good gait instead of taking the ele'
vator. The doctor added that no excer-
else was more gently stimulating than
walking down stairs and nothing more
severe than walking up stairs.
York Mail and Express