Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-10-24
CONSUMPTION CURE.

. The statement made on October Z
Sin the tuberculosis congress now sit
ding In Paris by Professor Behring.
9the celebrated German pathologist,
Epffers at least some ground for hope
Ghat at no distant date a cure Will be
Forthcoming for the most destructive
1malady To which the human race is
{fubject, and which Is aptly termed
4ahe white Plague" Professor Behr-
ss3ng. who, 1t may be remembered, re.
4teived about a year ago a Nobel prize
spf $4,000 for a previous discovery In
therapeutics, announced that he Is on
sthe way to the production OF a means
.of arresting the development OF tuber.
{(ulosis. but that he deems 1t inexped.
kient to divulge the precise nature OF
Ethe remedial agent until II has been
perfected. He explained, however.
fthat he was led to take the right path
5of inquiry by concentrating his atten-
ktion on the established distinction be
Tween the two kinds of lesion OBJ.
derived In tuberculosis, to wilt, the
transparent gray examinations (Baile's
}raulations) on the one hand, and the
nhercles which develop into suppura-
Zion or Justification on the other. It
occurred TO him that Nature herself
night have placed the remedy beside
lhe malady, and he found that by
Utilizing Bales gray examinations (by
process to be made known later.
g could arrest the evolution Of the
leally dangerous tubercular lesion, to
ut, that which s%uppurates and causes
he prurient dissolution Of the lung.
What he aims to do Is to im%pregnate
he living cells Of the organism with a
INSTANCE drawn, as we understand
from Bales granulations-a sub.
lance which, for the present. he
ames 7 C. and which. under certain
bnditions, possesses assimilating
lalities representing the quasi-vital
rinciples of those protective SbacilAi
hitch the well-known Russian biolo-
LIST DR.. Metchnikoff has denominatet
bhagocytes." 1t appears not to be
ue, as was at first asserted, that
Professor Behring purposes to reserve
r himself during a certain period the
tofit arising fro mthe manufacture
BID sale Of the new remedial agent,
has formally disclaimed any pur-
bse OF the kind, and there Is, there
Ire, no occasion to discuss the pro-
piety Of such reservation under the
prevailing code Of medical ethics. I'm
Mubtedly the laborer In the field Of
1edical research, like any other labor
Is worthy OF his hire, and In Il
dRy, fortunately, he is likely to re-
dive It. The discovery Of an indis-
&table cure for tuberculosis would
ehtitle Professor Behring to a second
ME OF 100000 from the Nobel fund
aid also to an income OF $4,000 francs
f(prn the Prix Lecave reserved by the
I2ris academy Of medicine for the
ChQueror o. tuberculosis. There Is
q a report, we know not how well
f(hnded, that a sum Of $4,000 900 has
h&e1 set apart by q rich Brazilian as
akr$ward for such n discovery. We
hive o doubt that similar munificent
Encouragement to fruitful work In the
fd Of therapeutics will before long
b offered by American multi-million.
al e. A good deal has already been
d B In that direction by a judicious
I, OF the income OF the fund ($1O,.
o. .00O) created by andrew Carnegie
4 the promotion Of scientific re.
3 rich.