The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-03-17
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tabled Fountain of Youth is still well
remembered by our oldest inhabi ants.
as country journal would put it
down to the time of Brown-Sequard
whose Elixir of Life caused old John
! Croker to take a bath, indulge in a
! shave and put on a clean shirt. there
have been many secrets unearthed by
| the chemists and scientists. but nearly
all of the remedies" proved fiat fail
gave hope of success.
1t is but natural, therefore, that the
world should be little skeptical as to
the claims made by the discoveries of
anti-toxine. Anti-toxine may prove to
be as much of a delusion as the
Keely motor, so far as we may now
see. I notice, however, that some very
wise people are inclined to scott at the
idea that any good can possibly come
from the use of the remedy.
In a recent number of the New York
Times-and that, I take it, should be
an authority-it is claimed that the re-
port of Professor Widerhofer concern
ing the use of diphtheria anti-toxine
in st. AIMS Hospital for Sick Children
at Vienna, shows a large reduction of
the mortality percentage in such cases.
Let the figures speak for themselves.
From 1862 to 1894 the annual diph-
iberia death rate in this hospital varied
between 80 and Y per cent and the
highest mortality was commonly OBJ
served in the months of October,
November, and December. For the
first nine months of 1894 the mortality
was 52.6 per cent. During the last
three months of the year the anti
toxine treatment was used. the num-
Der of cases being 100, and the NOR
tally for this period was cut down to
81 per cent. The professor says: ITO
my mind there does not remain the
slightest doubt that Behring's anti
toxine serum influences certain classes
of diphtheria cases, and not the mildest
cases, either, so favorably that Behr-
ing's serum therapy deserves the name
Of specific remedy against diphtheria.
with which no other so far discovered
deserves comparison
Between April 1 and December 81
there were 1913 cases of the disease in
the Children's hospital at Leipsic. Dur
ing the first four months, in which the
serum was not generally used. the
mortality was 1913 per cent, but in the
last five months, during which ma
jority of the patients were treated with
the new remedy, the rate was reduced
to IS per cent, or % deaths out of 122
cases. Only SO of these cases, however,
received the anti-toxine treatment, and
the mortality for these SO cases was
only LAG per cent.
Fifty thousand bottles of anti-toxine
have been gratuitously distributed in
Paris-the cost being not less than $780,
00e. Results abroad, so far as my read
ing goes, have been very encouraging;
in America, much good has resulted.
am anything but an admirer of those
gentlemen who allege they are able to
cure every disease that flesh is heir to
by one prescription, and 1 am, 'ontO
the curves" of the claims of many al
legged eminent specialists; but 1 do
hope and trust that the use of anti
toxine will not be discontinued in this
city simply because of the fact that
1t failed to work in one or two cases.
And while 1 am on this subject.
wish to refresh the minds of parents as
to the virtues of the fumes of tar and
in diphtheria cases. Put
the tar on a shovel, pour turpentine on
II, apply a match and keep the combi- /
nation burning until the room in
which the patent lies is full of smoke. |
In nine cases out of ten, the results
will be beneficial If one trial does
not do good, keep at it. In case the |
patient is breathing with great diff
ficulty, keep the room full of the smoke
until the breathing becomes natural,
even though hours are necessary to
accomplish the result.
I was the first to advocate this kind
Of treatment-added to the aid of the
attendant physician-in this city. This
was three years ago. In a late num-
Der of the Scientific American. L read
that it has given relief in hundreds of
cases.
This prescription goes free with this
issue of The Herald-and the druggist
IS cheated out of his percentage. 1t is
simply this:
RX.
Tar, q. S.
Turpentine, q. S.
Burn on shovel according to direc-
tons above.
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