The evening world., 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 Is
claimed TO be a marvellous cure for
diphtheria 1. used In time.
II Is 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 Disease s
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 diner
emit
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 person contracts an intectious
disease and RECEIVERS from II, that that
person cannot contract that disease
again for a greater or less length OF
time. Many infectious diseases are
Death from an infectious disease is not
caused by the germ OF that disease, but
by poison ttoxine) created by the
germ. In diphtheria. the Klebs-Loeff1ei
bacilli OF the disease create poison
which. when absorbed from the throat
by the body, causes death.
The reason why person VINO has
recovered from an infectious disease
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period OF time Is because there has beer
created In the body OF that person an
anti-toxine, some substance which
neutralizes the poison uoxinel OF the
| disease, just as acid neutralizes ar
| alkali.
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
DR.. Koch has found that n large
animals, such as horses and cows. be
given small doses OF diphtheria bacill
they become slightly sick. Giving their
another dose after they get well, an n.
time when. no, dose OF diphtheris
bacilli will make them sick. They have
then developed in the blood the anti
| toxine substance, whatever this is
which viii neutralze the poison OF
| diphtheria.
The blood OF these animals then be
comes an antidote to this poison. II II
drawn of In such quantities as will mo-
impare the animals. and may be uset
| at once on a person who has just con
tracted the disease. AS. however, tn,
| injection OF the blood OF an animal into
a man would create a fever, the serum
OF the animals blood Is separated be
| fore II In used.
Prof. Herman H. ,Bisss. Chief OF tn,
| Bureau OF Bacteriology OF the Heath
| 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, is extracted from the cow
| Prof Biggs was present at the institu
ton when go experiments were male.