The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1898-09-08
Y, SOUTH DAKOTA, THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 3. l898.
THE TYPHOID FEVER.
OR. AULDE'S EXPERIENCE IN ARREST
ING AND PREVENTING IT.


ING AND PREVENTING IT.
The Secret Of Success, He Says, Lies In
tn" Increased Resistance of Body Cells
| to Invasions From Micro Organisms.
Claims Of Nuclein Medication.
DR.. !, John Aulde Of Philadelphia,
whose teachings have been favorably
received by the medical profession both
in the United States and abroad, con-
tributes an important paper to the New
York Medical Journal recounting his
experience in aborting or preventing
that dread disease, typhoid fever. The
cases recently reported in detail, while
furnishing conclusive evide zee OF the
correctness Of his presen and past
claims afford the author an opportuni.
ty to bring forward certain novel ideas
concerning his mode Of conducting the
warfare against infection by micro or.
ganism.
He says: I'm making this report ]
have taken particular care to cover all
the details. because of their importance
in aiding the reader to arrive at cor
rect estimate Of the conditions present.
Ordinarily the diagnosis of a typical
case Of typhoid fever is a comparatively
simple matter, but when the claim is
Eut forward that case can tie aborted
within As hours and the specific charac-
ter Of the disease caused to disappear,
then the reeder's doubts are changed
into convictions of the utter impossible
ity Of accomplishing such results.
with knowledge of the physio.
logical properties Of the remedies en-
ployed III the treatment, the reader who
peruses the fore going report in thought
full manner, caEtiiGly weighing the evil
Gence as shown by the variations in
temperature. must be convinced that
the arrest Of the disease was brought
about by the influence Of the remedies
upon the blcod and upon the secretions.
rendering them iniraical to the welfare
Of the special micro organism associated
with typhoid fever.
''The secret Of success our author
asserts. "does not lie in our ability to
introduce into the system remedies
which shall destroy the offending micro
organism: but, on the contrary, we
should endeavor TO increase the resist
ance Of the body cells to invasions from
these mephitic bodies. and this can best
be accomplished by maintaining as
nearly rs possible the normal condition
of the defensive proteids, Of which
nuclein is the chief. Persons who are III
= the condition known as run down are
those who are most susceptible u ty-
phoid and other diseases, while those
who maintain healthy condition Of
;, the primary and secondary assimilation
escape infection, simply because the
white blood corpuscles are properly
/. nourished with suitable pabulum, SO
: that the body cells are fortified against
!. infection.
= Now, this is a comparatively new
a idea, but it is warranted by strictly sci
a entitic inductions. Experimental physi-
a ologists, both in the United States and
4 in Europe, have repeatedly demonstrate
a ed that the white corpuscles of the blood
n had az important mission to perform in
= maintaining healthy condition of the
Il human organism, but it is only within
;. recent years that the general practition
d er has been able to avail himself of the
d benefits which scientific discovery had
brought SO nearly within his reach. Th.
product Of these cells is called in til,
United States 'nuclein," while IL
Great Britain it has received the name
. of "aleSin," and its purpose in natur,
is now we'll recognized as an an,iseptit
'r which prevents decomposition of tn,
o blood and tissues
IS The clinical position Of nuclein ol
l. alexin obtained from animal sources
r has been definitely settled by DR.. Auld'
l. and his followers in this country
X through its employment in y number o
~ the more serious infectious diseases
~ while the most recent scientific re
searches confirm claims in u remarkable
degree. Thus late report from tn
Johns Hopkins hospital of Baltimor
y. gives detailed account of investiga
20 tions made at that institution with /;
es view to determine how and III wha
Y. manner nature was enabled to resls
y disease processes. 1t was demonstrate
that the white blood corpuscles, calle
"leucocytes, were constantly engage
in throwing off very small bodies, desis
mated granules, which arrested III
: growth of the bacillus typhosus. Thi
- experiment was repeated again an
"a again by exposing colonies of the ty
phoid micro organism in filtered All
j unfiltered blood serum. In every IL
stance the untiltercd serum was steril
at the end Of two hours while in tn
solution containing the bacilli with tn
filtered serum there was great increas
in the number Of microbea The sam
results were also obtained in the case {
cholera spirillum, the micro organise
associated with that disease, thus pro,
ing beyond question that the SO calle
conservative processes Of nature al
due to the activity Of the white bloc
oorpuscles And yet the proportion I
white to red corpuscles is comparativel
small. there being only about one whi
to $50 red corpuscles in the huma
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