Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-07-10

NEW YORK, July 9-History will not
hesitate to declare tina. Professor Beh-
ring, in celebrating a reliable remedy
for diphtheria, after years Of patient in
vestigation and experiment. has fairly
earned place In the foremost rank of
the worlds benefactors. 1t has been his
glorious achievement to remove diphthe-
ria from the category OF smallpox to the
category of measles. He has stripped
destructive and terrifying disease Of
nearly all its terrors. He has blessed
the world with a potent cure, and an
equally potent preventive. He has dis
PEELED the ever-haunting dread Of diph-
liberia from the breast of the young
mother. He has saved hundreds of thou
sands OF human lives, and he has ban
ished from the world an amount of sor-
row and grief that only the imagination
OF Dante could conceive. All this has
been accomplished by the discovery and
Introduction Of diphtheria anti-toXin or
anti-dphthertic serum. At first the
scientific assault was made on diphtheria
alone. but 1t has since been extended
with success to tetanus Qockjaw), and
with great promise to eTysipelas, scarlet
fever, and "a number of other diseases
produced by germ-nfection.
THE YELLOW-JACK.
Now yellow-fever is the object of at
tack, for, in view OF the predictions OF
the calamity seers that the frightful
scourge of yellow-jack will settle sooner
or later upon our gallant army in Cuba,
Il is very necessary that herculean ef-
forts should be made TO run down and
scotch this hot climate terror A regu-
larly-organiZed scientific search for
means OF destroying the yellow-fever
germs is now being carried on in the
largest and best-eQuipped, although not
the Oldest, institution Of this kind in
the world Operated by Parke. Davis q
Co. I'm Detroit, Mich. The writer re-
Gently had the privileges OF visiting 1t.
and VIII describe what he saw and learn
ed.
In an immense brick building there
were LIS horses, from which curative Sc
rum was being drawn, or that were being
simmuuized" for that purpose, as wei
as housed, fed, and cared for. Horses at
this wonderful establishment were under
tmmunization for yellow fever, tubercu-
iosis, tetanus Uockjaw) typhoid-fever
and blood poisoning. There were animals
OF all kinds, and for many purposes; COWS
sor vaccine. pigs being treated with hog
cholera, pigeons with chicken cholera,
etc. etc Sheep, rabbits, eunea-pigs
eats. white rats. white mice, dogs. frogs,
and roosters-eyen donkeys-were in evil
dence.
THEORY OF IMMuNiZATION.
The theory OF Illumination is that
something is formed by the Tissues OF the
infected animal body which ena-
bles that body to withstand the
invasion of disease-producing germs
or which destroys Them after they
have gained an entrance; and that
the immunity of one animal can be
taken and transferred to another This
ssomethng" is found in the watery part
or serum OF the blood. The experiments
now going on at the laboratory 1 am
describing are for the purpose or DIS
covering the yellow-fever antidote that
shall make any Of our soldiers inoculated
with Il proof against being attacked oy
the disease.
Ronx. OF France, and Behring, OF Ger
many, share the honor of having Smut
taneousIy discovered that the hiced Sc,
rum Of an immunized animal proSeeteu
or exertcd antdotal effect upon o'her
animals suffering from diphthe,ia
rbs IDEA harmonized with Pasteur's be-
s,ss chat n would be possible by a pro-
cess Of vaccination, "for man TO eradl-
cate every contagious disease from OH
the face OF tho earth.
THE EXPERIMENTS.
z The process Of experimentation. as ex-
s,,1ined 10 me az the laboratory. is this:
n the production OF the anu-diphtheria
fHerum--and this particular curative Sc
<en" has the place of prominence above
. IN the others--the experimenters. first OF
nj vsnr.re living diphtheria germs. The