The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1895-11-21
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Blood Inocula6 lion.


So man thousands OF children ara
annually carried off by diphtheria, the
sufferiugs caused by the disease are so
agonizing and the remedies hitherto x
the disposal of the medical profession so
inadequate that the news of the intro.
duction into the Berlin and Lopdo.i hos
pitfalls of new and eficacious cure fos
this fell malady cannot be regarded
otherwise than as matter Of public in.
terest.
Very little has been heard abort ia.
remedy, owing to the fact that the dis
tinguished psychologists engaged in
It's discovery have beeS unwilling to
EubIect themselves to the same disad-
vantage as DR.. Koch, whose cure for
consumption has been unjustly pro-
claimed a failure merely because ID
was published to the world prematurely
and before it was ready for medical az
plication. The new cure, briefly speak.
ing, is one of incubation, with thia
differenoe-that, instead of injecting
the poison into the system Of the pa
tient. one injects the blood of an AMI,
NAL which has been inoculated with
weak culture Of the diphtheria bacts.
ria, the virus of tie latter beiu.,. hoN
ever, of SO weak character that it does
not affect the animal with the malady,
but merely renders it immune thereto.
Repeated experiments made of late
have shown that few drops of blood
from & horse Or any other animal thus
rendered immune injected into his
GAN being suffering from diphtheria
sire sufficient to arrest and cure the dis.
ease. Of course it is too soon as yet to
quote the statistics of the few hundreds |
Of cures which have been effected in |
Berlin and London by this treatment
which is to be fully discussed in all its
complicated scientific aspects at the
forthcoming international congress Of
hygiene in September at Budapest. But
whatever he ultimate result of its ap-
plication, it has at least one advantage
over all other forms of incubation hith-
erto overwhelmingly. that the matteE |
injected into the system of the patient
Is free from poison and consequently
harmless. New York Tr'~z~s
Charmed by Snake.
Snakes travel good deal on their
They scare birds and small
animals so they become helpless. We al
NOW this to be fact. And then when
hey get in tight place with man
hey try 70 r,n bluff on him. A law.
7er in our town once met rattlesnake
Town in the Ozarks and began to expert.
nent, or rather to let the snake expert
nent, to see if there was anything in
he snake charming theory. Fs said
hat the snakes eyes got brighter and
brighter, and his scales became glisten-
ng, and his body seemed to swell up
title thicker, and the whole outfit be-
anne so engrossing that he finally ran
way from the snake in dead scare
md didn't get over it for a good while
Ifter. He told me that it was his belief
hat if he had kept company with thas
make much longer he would have lost
ID wits Forest and Stream
Of the antlc-. NJ CurtaIn mem ners OF
he Massachusetts legislature in form.
ng themselves into a committee to cam
ass the house against woman suffrage,
be Springfield Republican says:
This procedure is disagreeabIe, no
ouht, but woman suffragists must not
listake about its nature-it is simply
olitios. & does not involve moral tug :
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