The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1894-10-16
SIM no crRE DIpHrHERIA.
Macy Favorable Reports Ressrdi.g the
New AntitoNlne Treatment.

DR.. A. Campbell White. physician in charge
OF the Willard Parker Hospital. the city asylum
for persons affiicted with conta gious diseases
who has been experimenting with the new anti
toNinc method for the treatment of diphtheria.
has not yet made an Official report OF the results
to the Board OF Health. II was learned yester-
day that the use Of antiIoxne there was &C.
compaAied with favorable results, and IL is said
that the treatment was even found to be more
effective here than in any of the other cities
where II has been tried.
In July the Berlin authorities sent a x-ounce
phlal OF the antito1ne serum to Paris, London,
Constantinople, ST. Petersburg and New York
each. 1t was TO be used in the public hospitals
and the results reported. 1t is said that in twenty
cases where il applied in the Willard
Parl e. Hospital, IL produced the most beneficial
results. The exact mortality has not been made
public. hut IL Is understood that the death rate
has been lowered from an average between 40
and ~ per cent. TO less than II per cent. The
supply OF serum has been exhausted, and the
health u,horities are waiting for DIR. Whites
report before taking measures to secure more,
DIR. George r. Shrady. consulting physician to
Willard Parker Hospital. has cabled for some of
the serum and expects IL daily. lie said THE
experiments made with the antitoxine treat
ment at the Willard Parker Hospital were
outlook is promising While / cannot give
YOU any figures nj present, | will say that the
much better results obtained by this treatment
than by any other heretofore known. or course
II would not be well 3. say At this stage that the
various methods of treatment now In use but IL
il 50 fe TO say that the results obtained are tar
more gratifying than by any Of the meth
discovery. The satisfactory reports that come
from abroad certainly indicate that II is one OF
the most remarkable means Of checking the
most terrible disease known to modern science,
not to arouse the idea that II IL an infallbe
cure.
DR. Louis Fischer instructor in diseases of
cal School and Hospital. spent last summer In
Berlin studying the new form OF treatment, and
when he returned brought some Of the anti
He read = paper before the New York Post
Graduate Clinical Society on Saturday evening
on THE AntitoNlne Treatment OF Diphtheria.
With Reports Of Cases" II was discussed after
ward by Professors Porter and Chaplin. and Drs.
toleyi Fisk, Carter, Cole, Won Grimm, and 81.
IN this paper DR.. Fischer says: During the
under Prof Behrng, one q: the lectures glvenon
dlphtheria contained the somcw hat startling an
that hg had TsGsedfd in sEns
taken from such animals, or preferably the
serum OF their blood. When injected into other
six months after Koch's lymph trials, and Behr-
ing being an assistant TO Prot Koch, not much
weight was given 10 his discovery"
DIR. Fischer cited the first case in private
practice where the anlitoXin treatment was used
by him with efhcaciOus results. II was that of
all eleven year-old girl. She was III one day
when hc was called in. He found that IL was n
case OF true diphthera by making culture OF
the disease germs.
lie gave iwo injections of five centigrammes
each. and i'll twenty-four hours the patient
showed signs of improvement. On the third day
there was no trace Of membranes. but the throat
was still infamed. The following day the girl
was up and around. and on the sixth day she
was apparently in perfect health.
Owing TO their experience with the Koch
lymph. tho physicians OF this city wary
about Incoming too enthusiast over antltOx-
inc, bGt they regard II asa discovery OF much
higher grade and founded upon sounder princi-
pies than the Koch lymph.