Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-06-28
:ANTI-NIVISECTION.
ne MAIN GROUND OF THE Coz.
ERNOR VETO CONSIDERED.
Has IL Been the Means of Discovery
OF Methods by Which Vtrulent
Diseases Way be Rendered Innox.
iOus?- Some OF the Evidence TO the
Contrary.

OF Methods by Which Ntrulent
Diseases Way be Rendered Innox.
iou.?-Some OF the Evidence TO the
Contrary.
In Governor McGraw's reasons for
yetoing the anti-vivisection bill occur
the following passages: 1T is the re-
young men, who began their studies
AS minors, that has so lately led to
the discovery after experiment, that
the blood of animals, rendered i'm.
mune to diphtheria germs, confers
rejection on another, and from this
has grown the present method of
treatment of diphtheria which makes
it possible to save the lives of at least
10000 children year in this country
alone. -
:" 1t is: the results of vivisection which
have given us Pasteur's wonderful
treatment of hydrophobia, antidotes
to lockjaw, and has enabled diagnosti-
tians to locate with absolute accuracy
the various motor functions and to
some extent the other functions of the
brain which before these marvellous
and beniticent discoveries were as
sealed casket to all men,"
With regard to the new anti-toxine
remedy for diphtheria, its beneficence
is by no means so assured that the
medical profession can afford to hazard
its reputation by endorsing it so eager
ly, and now that Behring who claims
TO have originated it has applied for
patent, it will be interesting for out
siders to watch what the doctors, who
have lauded it to the skies, will do.
1t places them in q very embarrassing
position, for after being patented it
will only be "quack medicine" to
them but to which they have already
committed themselves by claiming it
can "save the lives of at least 10000
children year in this country alone"
At the very first Of the auti-toxine
agitation, the writer commenced COL
lecting all that appeared for and
against the remedy, and it is surpris-
ing on looking over this information
how many distinguished physicians
utterly Iepudiate it and how daily
developments are showing not only
its unreliability but fatal results from
its use. In Brooklyn, N. Y, DR.. ]. l..
Kortright treated two cases with
Behring's serum, imported from Ger
many, in which boy nine years old
died three hours after incubation and
his cousin a young lady inoculated
the next day with the same as a
preventive, when "she fell on the
lounge in commissions and was dead in
ten minutes, despite the efforts of the
physician to save her." DR.. ]. Mount
Bleyer, No. GAO Lexington avenue,
says: " have been expecting such re-
suits for weeks, in fact have lost two
or three patients in the same manner
from the use Of anti-toxine. l believe
anti-toxine is responsible FOR the par.
alysis which has of late been following
recovery" The Medical Brief de.
nounces as pseudo-scientific madness
the proposition to treat infectious dis.
eases by immunized blood serum from
animals that have been previously in.
oculated." The distinguished DR.. Will
liam johnson, in an address before the
st. Louis Medical Society, Missouri
said: "We have gone too far in accept
ing the dictum of the latest foreign
sensationalists. It has come that what
is believed in Burleen" and " Paree" il
considered gospel truth by the PROBES
sion in this country. Yet we have
had impressive lessons, if we would bul
heed them, The very names of Brown.
Sequard, recently taken from as, ant
Koch Should cause US to pause. The
elixir and consnmptive lymph are YER
table monuments of medical creduli
ty. The Brown-Sequard elixir was in
jected into old men all over the coun
try several years ago, without staying
the ravages Of years. Remember that
gentlemen, when you talk of the new
serum.
I may add the name of Pasteur Il
the list of warnings. Drs. Aronsol
and Behring, the diphtheria serum
, discoveries, are disciples of Koch. w
have the word of Virchow that the sc
rum is delusion, and will soon tax
it's place besides Koch's lymph an,
Brown-Sequard's elixir. Cases Q
! death from incubation are reporte,
, from Germany, Spain, France, Eng
land, Hungary, and all over the Unite
States. Prof. Drasche says: d" Neithe
in Berlin nor Vienna has the tots
= mortality from diphtheria decrease
r since the use OF serum" while the Lou
don Lancet of April 9th, 1895, says
"The mortality from diphthera hs
again risen." An official report n
s ceived by the Austrian government
}. from Trieste and Czernoitz states this
4 "under the anti-toxine treatmen
there is Q mortality of twenty-five pt
. cent from all quarters come complaint
{. of other diseases caused by inoculatiO
with serum" DR.. Lenox Brown,
leading London physician, writes
!, the Medical Press and Circular, II n
u gret to have to record that turtle
g experience of anti-toxine has resulte
r in six deaths out of a total of eigl
cases treated, all due to inflammatio
of the Kidneys" and DR.. Benda of Be
lin, " on q post mortem examination
+ thirty-nine subjects dying under ii
10 anti-toxine treatment, found nephriti
" inflammation of the kidneys) in thi
II ty-three cases, eight of which were
severe grade" DR.. Hanseman, one
T. Prof. Virchow's assistants, first DIRE
attention to the liability OF anti-to,
Is inc to increase the diphtheric tender
Ia cy to nephitis, and both home an
foreign correspondents have given flu
o ther evidence in this direction that
n increases the proportion of deaths
Il, heart failure and blood-poisoning
% There is also great danger that mar
n. other diseases may be communicate
through incubation. The News Ia
'e blatt, of Stuttgart, Jan. I'd, 1895, So,
that, notwithstanding all the effor
Or made to secure success, even to Il
ia special government grant of E4,OO
tho opinion is gaining ground that Il
:" new cure may work as much harm
Of good. Though carefully kept q secre
RS it has at length come to light th
IS three children, after incubation vii
the serum, have died Of tetanus Ooc
jaw; two we're the children OF docto
r and the other the grandchild of we
ty known anthropologist. The anti-to
a. inc in the three cases came from Il
q, same horse which no doubt was SUITE
:: ing from tetanus when the blood W
" taken from IL :" One firm sfonn