Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1902-09-24
A PRoPosED TYPAoID oURE.


A PROPOSED TYPHOID CURE.
There are few diseases more
dreaded than typhoid fever, and
there is good cause for the prevail
emit fear of it. Wherever ty.
phoid fever appears there is
danger, and every part of this
country Is subject more or less to
the ravages Of this dire malady.
The treatment Of it hAJ un-
dOubtedly been improved very
much in the last few years. Con-
sequently the fatality from it has
decreased notably, but the disease
is still so dangerous that every
new treatment Of it that seems to
promise better results than have
hitherto been obtained is jOyfully
received.
The Chicago Chronicle gives
prominence to a communication
from one of it's readers who thinks
that he has come into the posses
sion Of knowledge which suffering
humanity should have, and which
he proceeds to circulate through
the columns Of that newspaper.
The treatment referred to is
new. Tt has been discussed very
little in the medical or general
press, and we give the statement
Of its merits from the Chicago
Chronicles correspondent fol-
what it is worth. He says:
"PeOple who are interested in
the subject of typhoid fever-and
the designation probably includes
most OF the urban population
will be glad to know that, accord.
ing to good medical authority
there is substantial reasons to be
lieve that a specific remedy hat
been discovered for the disease.
cit would be more proper, per.
haps, to say that it has been in
vented, as it is the result Of syn
thetic chemistry directed toward
fixed object.
Typhoid germs will not live il
nascent oxygen. That gas kill
them. 1t has, therefore, been th,
aim of chemists to devise some
combination which will liberatc
oxygen in the small intestine
where the typhoid germs swarm
The difficulty has bean that all the
compounds hitherto elaborated
have given up the oxygen in the
stomach, while the seat of the
trouble is fifteen feet further
down. This fault, it is hoped,
has been remedied by the cOmpO.
sitiOn of a substance called acetO.
zone.
according to physicians who
have tested the drug-it is not
patent medicine-it reduces the
temperature Of a typhoid patient
from 103 or 104 to 100 or even
lower within twelve hours, and
shOrtens the duration OF the dis.
ease and convalescence from six
or seven weeks to half that time,
besides rendering the patient com.
paratively comfortable and free
from dellrium during the whole
period.
cit is said that at the country
hospital, where the conditions are
by no means favorable, fifty test
cases have been treated with aceto.
zone without q single death result
ing. The normal typhoid NOR.
tality ranges from eight to ten per
cent.
physicians are additionally
slow to endorse any remedy that
has not borne the test Of a years
employment. Hence they do not
yet unreservedly commend the
new typhoid specific"
OF course, it is too soon to form
any reliable estimate Of an alleged
one that has been tried for so
short a time, but the Importance
Of seeking for some better treat.
ment Of typhoid fever than has
yet been found, and the fact that
we have made much less progress
toward the mastery Of this disease
than many others RhOuId induca