Omaha daily bee., 1899-08-27


dlrhtheria and typhoid fever. Meanwhile
q quantity OF enzym will have reached India.
TO be used In treatment OF the bubonic
plague. We will test its value az n cure
ior cholera as soon as that disease breaks
out again. We think 1t will also prove a
very valuable treatment for swine plague.
which costs millions OF dollars in Kansas
alone. In applying Il for anthrax we VIII
PROBABLY inject 1t under the skin OF the
abdomen' Injections into the blood would
also be necessary in treatment of bubonic
plague, cholera and typhoid.
The b%ubonic, or black plague, may yet
reach Europe and America. The bac!lli will
thrive and spread in cool temperatures. As
l nave said, our enzym solution has killed
ohese plague bacilli when applied to them
In our laboratory. We can well apply much
OF 1t to these germs in living animals until
we get an isolated laboratory. In Vienna
a laboratory assistant lately contracted a
severe case OF plague while engaged in work
with the live germs. He communicated it
to a number of attendants. There were sew
oral deaths, and the whole city became
alarmed. Further work OF the kind was
forbidden. The plague bacilli are always
very dangerous. IL a flask filled with cul-
lures should break by accident the entire
neighborhood might become rapidly infected.
Hence a laboratory for such work must be
Isolated, and powerful antiseptics, such as
sulphuric acid, must be always at hand, to
be poured at once upon exposed germs"
One Kills the other.
Will the black plague microbes make
their w enzym?"
They do not seem to be we'll adapted
to produce 1t. But you see one of the great
advantages OF this treatment will be that the
germ Of Ona dtaaasa uill produro a n m
fatal to the germ OF another disease within
certain limits. Thus, the enzym produced
by the pyocyaneus bacilli, as suggested, will
dissolve the black plague bacilli doubtless
as readily as would the enzym Of the latter,
could it be made. 1t ought to be much
more efficient than the serum prepared by
the aid of the black plague bacilli injected
into horses. Indeed, in the Vienna expert
ments such serum proved without any value
whatever.
although we have proved also that this
same enzym, fatal to black plague bacilli,
will also destroy typhoid bacilli. we have
not been able to make tests with animals
since they all appear to be immune against
typhoid.
I'VE have produced engines from many
diseased germs with interesting effects.
That from the bacilli of erysipelas, when
applied to animals. their blood corpuscles
killed them. The diphtheria bacilli
produced all enzym and a toxin or poison
at the same time. In such cases the diff
Guilty, of course, was to separate this poison
from the enzym. Thus, you will see why
we favor the enzym of our first experiments.
We have studied it with greater detail be-
cause Of the great number of different species
OF bacilli which it will destroy. If We
finally prove that the yellow fever germ
will not produce a satisfactory enzym we
will see If the original one will not do Just
as we'll"
Checking Tuberculosis.
do you think you can find an enzym
which will cure consumption"
MANY experiments already made by my
| colleague, DR.. Emmerich, show that tuber-
culosis may be retarded by the enzym solu-
ton, but further Investigations must be
made. In the first place the tuberculosis
bacillus has a third of It's entire weight
made up of fatty and waxy-like material.
Drs. de Schweinetz and Dorset Of the
meteorological laboratory of the Bureau Of
Animal Industry have established this and
have actually shown me a large spoonful of
this matter taken from cultures. To the
tuberculosis bacilli it serves as a protecting
armor against many chemical actions. We
are looking toward the combination Of enzym
with some substance which will penetrate 1t.
DR.. Landerer of Germany has for the last
ten years or so cured many cases Of tuber-
c~ulosis, when not too advanced, by a sodium
salt OF cinnamylic acid. Perhaps this can be
applied with enZym.
You will see that we do away with the
body of the horse or Of any other animal In
obtaining chemically, in a glass vessel, the
same durable body which Is the active con-
stituent of the serum obtained only from
injected animals. The enzym has always
been at the bottom of all such treatments
as vaccination and the so-called anti
toxin, but has never before been recognized"
LOUIS WILLIAM THAVIS