The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-01-26

with my serum. the cures I have ef-
fected may be due to this rather than
10 my specific. But every physician
knows that, while cold water assists
the patient to support the malady, in
no case can II erect q cure, as it does
not attack the cause 1t is not a spe-
cIhc- / can quote Dr.. BOutleux in
charge of the hospital at Bethune, who
IN not single case resorted to cold
baths with his typhoid fever patients,
and all Of them recovered through the
use of my system of injections DR..
BOUtleuX inOcUlated his cases with ten
cubic centlmetreS Of my serum with as
Sured success OF course. IL is hardly
necessary to say that scientific nursing
is very important factor in any case.
am oeSlrous TO test my remedy tc
the fullest degree. and have begged my
colleagues TO acQuaint me with any
cases which may come under their OBJ
SerVatiOn, offering 10 treat them un-
der their surveillance. Unfortunately
my provision Of anti-tOxn has run
short, and not sufficient remains to
conduct Investigations on a large scale.
The virus I am now using mas been
drawn from horses inOculated in 1896.
The animals must slowly X permeated
with the poison. or one would kill so
many of them that the serum would
| become so costly It could never be used
| in general prartice.
As I just intimated, il has been an
| expensive experiment. but one which
1 trust VIII prove an inestimable boon
/ to mankind. The effects Of the remedy
| on human beings are exactly similar
/ 10 those on an animal similarly inoc-
ulated; it is a substance destined TO
/ effect revolution IN medicine.
I And now having outlined my proven
| tive and my cure, let ne add a few
/ words about the common little house
/ fly. What has the common little house
! fly got to do with serum treatment Of
] typhoid? the lay reader may smue-
/ dlately wonder to himself But in YOUR
| country, in your colonial possessions
and in England and in her colonies
/ science is paying much grave and
! painstaking attention to this little
| nuisance. For il has now come to be
! a pretty generally accepted fact that
/ the common, ordinary, everyday fly
/ with his perniciOus activity, is one Of
/ the most effective agents in the diff
/ fusion Of the poisonous microbes of ty-
/ phoid. in typhoid researches he is get
/ ting to be regarded as of just as much
importance as impure food and impure
water
H! In the official report Just received
in London made by the medical stan
Of the army in South Africa, it is dem
/ Onstrated quite conclusively that they
are the chief cause Of the fearful NOR
tally from the pest of typhoid out
there. Since nature has designed them
to convey pollen on their legs from one
plant to another. il is only reasonable
to suppose that they are equally capa-
q bic of carrying and distributing the
germs of disease. And here is a very
pregnant fact pointed out in the re-
port: There was a terrible outbreak
Of enteric in Ladysmith during the Ia
nous siege, when flies abOUnded ev-
Ierywhere. There was none last year,
when there was a notable absence OF
flies. This latter phenomenon is as
cribed to the treatment Of all meat and
other articles particularly attractive to
these greedy little mischief makers
with some sort of a chemical prepara-
ton. which effectually kept them off
The fly, which has very nasty habits,
feeds on the typhoid excrements as on
all others. Then, laden with multitu-
dinous poison germs lodged in every
nook and Granny Of his peculiarly con-
structed tiny legs and feet, he imme-
diately proceeds to feast on and infect
every bit Of meat or butter or eatabls
that he can lay his legs on. This in
fected matter is taken into human sys-
TENS. and if the conditions are just
favorable to typhoid infection. Voilal
there you are. Then. in my opinion,
no time is to be lost in beginning the
serotherapeutic treatment.
Compared to the size OF a fiy's foot
the dimensions of one of the microbes
Of typhoid fever would be about as 1
is to 100000. one nicr9he properly
Iabsorbed would be enough to cOmmu-
uicate a fiTst-class case Of typhoid
fever. but fly can carry 60.000.000 mi-
al still hnrG
its trunk and wings unburdened.
/ The fearful microbe-carrying posi-
biIities of the house fly are best COM
pretended when it is said that the area
Of one of its wings is, roughly speak
ing. $50 times as great as one Of its
feet while the end Of its DrObOsCis
could accommodate some 100000 mi
Crobes more.