The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-08-25
'HEALTH's NEWEST WEAPON.
Anti To1ine" 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
II will soon begin to distribute among
the physicians of this city what IL
claimed to be a marvellous cure for
diphtheria l. used in time.
1t Is also said to be an absolutely sure
preventive IN the cases Of those who
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.
following facts. It has been found that
where Il person contracts an infectious
disease and RECEIVERS from II, that that
person cannot contract that disease
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
germ. In diphtheria the klebs-Loeffier
bacilli Of the disease create 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
| .l.~.l Ia thnr IN n
created In the body OF that person an
| anti-toxine, some substance which
| neutralizes the poison toxine) OF the
disease. just as acid neutralizes an
In diphtheria, an attack OF the dis
ease which Is recovered from gives
immunity from the disease for a time:
This is because the body has acquired
a tolerance of the poison created by the
bacilli. In other words, the body has In
II the anti-toxine.
animals, such as horses and cows. be
given small doses OF diphtheria bacilli
they become slightly sick. Giving them
dSse sns
time when no dose OF diphtheria
bacilli will make. them sick They have
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 IN antiuote 10 tnis poison, II ls
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
a man would create a fever, the serum
Of the animals blood is separated be-
fore 1t IL used.
Prof. Herman II. Biggs. Chief OF the
Bureau OF Bacteriology OF the Health
Department, who 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
| toxinc," which. as In the case OF vac
| cine virus, Is extracted from the COW.
| Prof Biggs was present at the institu-
| ton when go experiments were made.