The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1903-04-25
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Mention was made these columns yesterday Of an
typhoid The discovery has recently been reported in the London
Times The dcove Dr. Allan Macadgen Of the enner Institute
Medicine
nmcated Royal Society by Lister the dis
tnghed medical world ranks with the very foremost
medical thinkers Indeed review OF the work done the last
century the of Par and of Lister linked together and
both worked the theory disease both laying the founda
of theories which accepted throughout the world
1t till 1880 that became possible to separate the various
bacteria get pore unmixed uures of This the
work German and French biologists step by step the mcroogan
ms OF CHAMBERS anthrax tuberculosis dptera cholera
ara plague and influenza have been found Long continued study
and continued experiment have proved that the i'll effects bacteria
due the toxins they manufacture the growth
1t has been further learned that by gradually introducing specific
poison immunity could be developed till
large doses poison could be given without serious results As
ed be due the gradual formation the animal of substance
which the poison and its ando and this anti
doe will in the blood considerable time
this that antoxn treatment based This treatment has proved
successful IN the case OF hydrophoDa and dPhher 1T fairly sue
cess plague logical conclusion should
successful in tuberculosis and leprosy.
used in time will pull back from the grave when he
has both feet in. The antoXin in dphta have its chance
be given early the illness If the toxin Of the bacillus of dph-
liberia has already destroyed the system the antoxn
less Still the results from this have reduced the fatal
from this disease by much than fifty cent In Berlin the
deaths from dpher ten thousand used be they
81 Paris has gone from 6 49, and New York from I45 63
These are facts, proved by the best Of statistics.
DR. Mcadgu then proposes do for typhoid fever what has al
ready been done for dphe Seeing the fearful typhoid
treatment which will be antdote and cure for the disease must
be hailed with enthusiasm In the Philippines soldiers are dying
today typhoid fever than have been killed wounded by Eli
bullets There outbreak OF typhoid lever among the New
York Regiment posted here during the Spanish and quite
died In the BOer the British yphod
Quoting from the Edinburgh Review article
which published in February of this these words
"h number OF valuable lives lost from typhoid fever proah to
medical and efforts should be spared from Nature
the by which immunity might be gained little month
after that article penned Lord Lister made the announcement OF
DR.. Macfadgens discovery.
curious thing in connection with discovery liquid
used The typhoid bacl placed liquid aid the
of which degrees Fahrenheit below This found
kill the bacii but rendered them brittle that they could
be crushed pounded and their could be
obtained Thus scientific discovery helps another Without the
liquid air the degree OF cold required by Dr. Macfadgen would
have been easily obtained
Should this discovery prove carry all that promised of
the disease will have been If
mankind remembered honored and has
raised him. the conqueor disease deserves far greater
bance and honor and should raised The
mankind leaves behind him ruined homes ruined families
ruined cities ruined the shout of but feeby hides
wall The disease the
the mother the child builds the and happiness
There shout for him, but the thankful
like the throne of Grace besses him while living
him when he is dead