Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1895-01-19
THE TURNING TIDE.
SUCCESS IN THE GREAT CAT
TIE WITH DIPHTHERIA.
A French Doctors Success in Treating
the Dread Disease With Equine Blood
How the serum Is Obtained and Used
The Lives saved.


with sunshine, in the PasteIw institute
the New York World correspondent
found DR.. RouN. who is the hero Of
the hour from the fact that he has dis
covered cure for diphtheria
His dark, serious face lighted up
with a winning smile as the CORE
spondent saluted him as '.the man who
is saving 10000 lives a year in
France alone,
pardon, he said quickly, ..you
exaggerate Ii is true that diphtheria
and Group claim more than 5000
every year in this country II is also
true that out OF llS children whom |
have recently treated for one or the
other OF those terrible maladies | have
saved ll6. This is, we think, very
pretty reduction Of the mortality from
the old rates. 7
ut is so wonderful that the mothers
Of France ought 70 build you a monu-
ment Of gold.
4 The smile swept over the dark face
again, Yet we are only on the
| Threshold OF success At the Trous-
seau hospital, where the mortality
among the children used TO be- sixty
three per cent think OF ii, monsieur.
sixty-three per cent Iii has been re-
iuced since the introduction oi our
treatment Of diphtheria and Group 10
twenty-four per cent.
II will repeat substantially what /
said al the medical college at Buda-
pesth the other day nv co-workcrs.
NM Martin and Chaitlon. and /.
maintain after a series on careful IN.
periments extending through three
years, that by the use OF ths Serum,
separated from the blood II the horses
which have been previously yaccin,
ated against diphthcria 40 have ,uc-
ceeded in lowering III such large IRA.
portions the mortality Of children III.
tackled by diphtheria or GROUP, that
the malady may be considered a. con
quered. We are beyond perad venture
now. But what We wish specially Ia
do j. to impress upon the mind, of
mothers everywhere tho need 81 NJ
ing at once to the remsdy the moment
the diphtheria declares Itself.
This Is what should 81 done H.
went on. When a child COMPLAIN.
q sore throat an examination should
be instantly made II the nacou.
surface shows little white spots sea-
tered over il, physician should IN
called without delay. The white
spots may be indications 81 d .inpl.
quincy Or they may b The first .ymp-
toms Of Group
In either case, the physician
should at once give the child 4 -nh.
cutaneols injection or tho anti.dirb-
theritic serum n the attack /. Nm
Of duinzF simply, the remedy Will dg
no harm u Il q dfphtheria. ~
serum will. infalioly effect rrr,.
The statistics d the hospital IN Es.
fant5 MaIade- show that siHrs the y...
Of tAe serum ia diuhtheria ea-...
where there Is uo complication ,gfsF.
other maladios the average murtali,g
has been lowered from ciavsr tn I'm.
per cent. Contrast ihis with uaarry
seventy per cent az mortalft5 gA.r.,
fne old-iashioHed treatment atGgs ~.
used, Nine times ont ~ fan af.t,
liberia does not Xiii. Is Il oar.raji,.
supposed. by su'Focatinr. Th- fnf.g,
membranes which develop III fhs bart
Of the throat rarely cause total Ill.
struction u the respiratory canal a.d
even II they did, trachcotomy co9ld
save the patient
But the diphtheritic ml,rab.
when swarms on these false mem
branes, secrctes poison that sooner
Or later, according % the virulenre
81 the attack, must rontamipnta ~
blood. Ny pupil Yersin and claim
to have been the first 10 discover Nm.
.toXinc. and to have proved finn,
diphtheria patients die from pois,,ln,,
= Now, the subcutaneou. inicetiga
Of the anti-diphtheritic serum confcrs
immediate immunity. but acts IA ~
antldote only at the end Of sayarai
hours. so that If the ravage. IF nm
toXine are too far advanced land ,b,,
y pretty generally the case anon.
poor children here when tho familC
AoOsOt say Jnat the attack has br
come too serious for him. ana III.
the patient must 20 10 the bosnitah
the remedy Is given in vain. Ncithcr
must 1t be supposed that tho serum bas
any power to cure otherdfseases whIcb
the sufferer may have concurrentIy
with diphthcria. 2
And how DO you obtain tbo
serum?n ~
Wei, we will now return 10 ar
friend the horse. The great number
OF experiments made in our laboratorg
showed that Of all animals capable ~
furnishing anti-diphtheritlc serum 4
large quantities the horse was tba
easiest to yaccinate. He supports IN
':oxine much better than tho doc ~
than Illuminating animals. NOTHING d
easier than TO draw from the iuonlar
vein OF horse, as often as one wisbns
great quantities Of pure blood, from
which perfectly limpid serum SEN
arates." ''p
'Ihe drawback Of expense ia tbe
only one. | was about 10 sav .Rnt,
If we are TO be eXpected ~ 49,, ~,