The San Francisco call., 1904-07-04
CALLS SCIENCE
TO CURE ILLS
DR.. Svante A. Arrhenius
Applies Serum to Con-
quer Human Diseases
POISON FIGHTS POISON
European Scientist Looks
for Complete Revolution
in Practice of Medicine
POISON FIGHTS POISON
Berkeley Office San Francisco Call.

Pas Center Street, July 3.
Professor Svante A. Arrhenius of the
Summer School faculty of the Univer-
sity of California believes that with
the application of chemistry TO the cure
of diseases the treatment of human ills
will soon be reduced to such a scien-
tific basis that men will marvel at the
crude and illogical methods that have
obtained so long in this enlightened
age. The greatest physicist of the
world holds to this belief. because he
has had measure of success with
serum -therapy in his own native land
of Sweden and in Denmark, where
there is a National Serum Institute
The results that DR.. Arrhenius has
obtained in this great field of research
he proposes to give TO the world for the
first time in a series of lectures during
the summer session at the University.
None of the discoveries DIR. Arrhenius
has made have ever been published and
no doubt they will be of the most pro-
found Importance to scientists and
medicos.
The successes that have been OBJ
tained with serum and it's application
to diseases are so far limited TO a few
OF the more malignant types Of bodily
Ills These may be enumerated as
diphtheria, lockjaw and possibly ty-
phus. Partial successes have also been
secured with the bubonic plague, chOl-
era and blood DOisOns that have been
caused by reptiles. In discussing his
experiments to-day at the Loeb Physi-
oloSlcaI Laboratory, where he is assO-
Grated for the summer with Dr. Jacques
Loeb, Dr. Arrhenius said the sum and
substance of nearly all diseases lie in
the poisons that the body secretes,
therefore it is the obligation of science
TO discover the counteracting antidote
He said:
Ihese researches are being carried on with
the knowledge that every poison has its spe-
cial anti poison. A disease is a poison that
aHects some part OF the body 1t can be
reached through the agency of the blood
OF the anti-poisOn Of which the serum is
composed. reacuonary effect is obtained and
the ulseaSe IS conquered. 1 believe that in
time this method will bring about revolu-
ton in the practice OF medicine.
me me great qifncuity Is TO secure an anti
poison that will be efdcacious and it is along
these lines that / am working In the case
OF diphtheria we have had the most success
and the for that disease is now being
manufactured everywhere 1t was a Compare :
lively easy disease TO study. its indica- 70
lating the lower animals with the white mem
brane of patients afflicted with that disease
we were able TO ascertain just what counter
poisons gave results
Typhus is such a malignant disease that it
Is doubtful If 1t can be said that treatment
with serum Is successful. The common method
OF investigation with that disease has been to
extract blood from the patient and experiment
with it. Great success has been secured with
a serum in India where formerly large num-
bers of people were killed annually by the poi
son of reptiles. 1t has also become the com
mon thing to supply the French troops in
Madagascar TO protect them against the snakes
there
With tuberculosis We have not pursued any
lengthy investigation. but it is possible that in
time something may be accomplished DR..
Koch you know discovered tuberculne, but
he never achieved final success. About the
only thing tuberculine did TO develop un o.
mistakable evidences of tuberculosis in ami
mails that had been previously only suspected
of the disease
A number of experiments have been carried
on with the blood of various animals. The
blood is treated with poison called lisin.
which acts the cOrpusCles as 10 affect its
color In order TO determine what other poi
sons counteract this poison We apply anti
poisons and thus discover the basis for a new
serum
DR.. Arrhenius' researches have re-
suited in the discovery of some facts
that are highly interesting to biolOg-
ical science. Among others the analogy
that exists between the blood of
man and the highest types of the mon
key family, particularly the chimpan-
zee. The tests with lisin have developed
| that they are closely related, for the
poison has had the same effects in the
| experiments with the blood of the two
animals.