The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-08-25
.HEALTH'S NEWEST WEAPON.
Anti Toxine" to Be Distributed
Among Physicians Of This City.
Prof. Koch's New Lymph Said to
Overcome Diphtheria Germs.

II the Health Department can secure
the necessary appropriation from the
Board OF Estimate and Apportionment
It will soon begin to distribute among
the physicians OF this city what is
claimed 70 be a marvellous cure for
diphtheria II used In time.
1, IL also said to be an absolutely sure
preventive In the cases of those who
have been exposed to this dreadful
scourge Of childhood.
This remedy Is known as The Anti
Toxine." and was discovered recently In
the Institution for Infectious Diseases
at Berlin. OF which the celebrated Prof.
Koch Is tn head.
This panacea for diphtheria Is utilized
In the blood In much the same manner
as vaccine virus Is used In cases OF
smallpox; but the mode OF administer
ing the treatment is considerably differ
ent.
Commissioner Cyrus Edison is the chief
promulgator on the part Of the Health
Department to combat contagion, and
he Is very enthusiastic over the pro-
spective benefits that 'anti-toxine" will
AFFORD the public.
The anti-toxine treatment rests on the
following facts. 1t has been found that
where "A person contracts an Infectious
disease and RECEIVERS from 1t. that that
person cannot contract that disease
again for greater or less length Of
/ time. Many Infectious diseases are
known to be caused by specific germs.
| Death from an infectious disease is not
caused by the germ OF that disease, but
by poison Noxine) created by the
germ. In diphtheria. the Klebs-Loeffier
Dacilli of the disease create a poison
which, when absorbed from the throat
by the body. causes death.
/ The reason why person who has
recovered from. an infectious disease
cannot take" that disease again for a
period OF time is because there has been
created In the body OF that person an
neutralizes the poison uoxinel. of the
disease. just as acid neutralizes an
alkali.
In diphtherla, an attack OF the dis
immunity from the disease for time.
This IL because the body has acquired
tolerance of the poison created by the
bacilll. In other words, the body has In
DR.. Koch has found that II large
animals. such as horses and cows, be
they become slightly sick Giving them
another dose after they get well. and
then another and another, there comes
time when no dose OF diphtheria
then developed in the blood the anti
toxine substance, whatever this Is.
which will neutralize the poison OF
diphtheria.
The blood OF these animals then be-
comes an antidote to this poison. 1t IL
drawn off In such quantities as will not
impare the animals, and may be used
at once on a person who has just con-
tracted the disease. As, however, the
| injection OF the blood of an animal into
Il man would create a fever, the serum
of the animals blood is separated be-
fore II IL used.
| Prof Herman II. Biggs, Chief OF the
Bureau OF Bacteriology of the Health
| Department. whJ has recently returned
| from Berlin, where he was sent by the
| Department. has transmitted to his SUI
| periors the whole Plan OF the new treat
| ment, and also OF the culture Of anti
| toXine." which, as In the case OF vac
| cine virus. Ia extracted from the COW.
| Prof Biggs was present at the institu-
| tlon when $50 experiments were made.