New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-04-05

AN OPINION THAT THE PATIENT MUST BE
TREATED SOON AFTER THE OUTBREAK OF
THE DISEASE. ELSE THE APPLICATION
IS NOT REALLY EFFIcACIoUs.
There never was a larger audience at meeting
of the Academy OF Medicine than that whlch at-
tended the regular monthly meeting last evening at
No Il West Forty-third-st. The hall was hled
when Dr. Joseph d. Bryant. the academys popular
president, called the meeting to order. Many OF
the prominent physicians Of the city were present
and many women were in the audience The SUD-
iect for the evening diphtheria antitoxin' and
1t was the general interest in the subject that had
drawn so many persons to the meeting
ON the platform was a fine o-painting or the
late Dr. Valentine Mott presented to the Academy
by his daughter Mrs. Isaac Bell DR.. A. H. ELY
made the presentation speech and it called from
other members Of the academy some eloquent IT'D
utes 20 Or Motifs memory. Resolutions, presented
by DR.. Polk, adopted, providing Tor a d.
Mott memorial meeting at the Academy OF Meui-
cine on the evening of the first Thursday In May.
when speeches will be made by Dr. Stimson, Chah-
celor MacCracken and ex-Mayor Hewitt
Resolutions presented by DR.. Smith, also were
nassed asking the Legislature to divide the present
Department of Charities and Correction In this
city into two departments.
Dr. Herman NJ Biggs, OF the Health Depart
ment, read a paper on Experiences IN the frouuc-
ton and Use of Dlphtheria AntltoNn' III VIM" nc
described the good effects Of the remedy IN us use
among the children OF the poor IN tenement-houses
I'm the city He had personally observed the eiiects
of tho remedy IN 252 such cases In thirty cases the
anttoyin was applied on the iirst Gay ai'er inc
appearance OF dphthera, and only TWO OF tne CHI
drsn died In seventy-seven cases the reHeuy WIS
u,e1 first on the second day after the appearance
Of the disease and of the patients d'eu l"ree
DAYS mad elapsed in sxty-seven cases peiore anu
toxin was used. and eleven of the chhdreh uieu'
In thirty-one cases four days had elapsed anu se'eh
Of the children died Thirteen out OF lortysiA I'M
Iron who had been i'll five days before receiving sne
remedy. died. BipZs expressed the penei 'l,ae
'l,f'hth,ria antitoXin effective oniy "heIi dp
piled within "A day or TWO DAYS ai'e' ~ rF
ance Of the disease. ,,, .ho r,e,bod Of
producing the antioxin by administering ohe No.
rouous toxin to horses and then Draw raTins 49, 81
from their veins and obtaining the Dioou SCI uii
which nature had supplied the lnocuiaths luih
Dr . H. Peck, OF the Infant Hospital U.s. , III a.
The minimizing effects Of the antltoHlh s"o"" III
IN, uso of The remedy at the hospital . 49,
Dr George i. Biggs VINO Is attacueu ", ~
willard Parker Hospital. under the controI OF Ine
Health department. spoke from personal Exp =
aLoIt alliopses on the bodies OF children VINO ha'
Iicd at the hospital after being treated WIN anu
toNin DR. Ira Van GicsOn described me ahdtoinl-
caI Lessons found In animals which had dled duTihS
mo nrocass OF immunzation. Discussion Dy Dts
.Iosonh f. Winters. George l. Peabody, j.. w
Branuon. l.. Emmett Holt, ". I. NVr'hIuP anu W
l.. Somerset closed the meeting