New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-10-20
TEST OF B0YOVACCTNE.
GOOD RESULTS SHOWN.
Improvement in CalUes Treated Nth
Von Behing Tuberculosis Serum.

That the bovovaccine produced by Professor
Emil Won Behring, of the Marburg Institute,
for the prevention of tuberculosis in cattle, has
some power is declared by DR.. Claude D. Nor
ris. who has charge of the cattle of one of the
largest milk companies in the Eastern States
and by Dr. Wilfried Lehman. the professor OF
pathology in the Veterinary School Of New
York University. Under the direction of DIR.
Morris, who is conducting a series of expert
ments with the calves of the milk company DR..
LeIlmann who is the veterinary for E. Bischoff
& Co.. the representatives Of Won Behring in
this country vaccnated twelve calves with
bovovaccine about fourteen weeks ago
Just before the vaccination the milk COM
pany had bought up twenty-four calves at hap
hazard. All Of these calves were placed in the
same Enclosure and will be brought UP under
similar conditions Half Of this herd was treated
by DR.. Lehman. DR.. Morris intends to learn
whether the calves inoculated will really be
found immune to tuberculosis. more capable
Of resisting the disease than their unvaccinated
fellows. and If they will be found to give %
per cent more milk than the others, as Won Ben
ring declares will be the case with animals vac
cinated Yesterday afternoon the calves re-
ceived their second treatment.
The effect of the bovovaccine was seen when
the calves were brought out for their second in
oculation The finest calf of the twelve
one which July 10 had been the most mis-
cradle specimen in the herd DR.. Lehman said
that it had been thin. anemc and that it had
a cough. Yesterday after treatment that diff
fered in no way from the given its fellows
the professor pronounced it to be the largest
! healthiest and brightest of the dozen. The eff
feet produced on another calf by it's first
incubation was described by DR.. Morris. He
said:
81 ErSt Of CaIHy
a small one. four weeks old. was in very bad
degrees gher thah the Of the others
While the temperatures of all the other calves
normal until the afternoon Of the nth day sue sue
seeding the Xaeeinaon the 1G a OF this
This calf regained it's health rapidly, and
was yesterday one of the finest in the dozen At
the first incubation two cubic centimetres Of
bovovaccine are injected. and ten on the second
! occasion The calves that receive the treat
ment seldom under four weeks old.
DR.. Norris Is enthusiastic in his hopes for
bovovaccine, and says that all he has seen and
heard of it so far leads him to believe that it
is the solution Of the tuberculosis problem in
cattle raising. tuberculosis is responsible for
by far the most cases of mortality in calves, and
yearly costs the cattle raisers millions Of dol
| lars. not to mention the human lives lost
| through the use of milk from sick cows. DR..
Morris described bovovaccine as follows:
The inoculating virus which Professor Won
Behring has named ''Bovovaccine" consists Of
living human tubercle baeilli whose action have
been accurately tested. The tubercle bacil1 have
been dried without losing their vital powers in any
way. These dry tubercle bacilliy kept in sealed
changed for a period Of thirty days. after which
time although the mmunizing power is not en-
trely lost, IL has become so weak as TO render II
ineffective in the dosage recommended. There is a
t1bercie bacil with that q, Jenner's smallR9}x
vaccine or virus. A with live bac1ln capao Die
OF generating specific disease Is called virus In
this It is human tubercle bactlh In the virus
fermentation method in honor of the progenitor
of vaccine.
Some scientists believe that the human con-
sumption cure which Won Behring announced
that he had discovered to the Paris Congress
of scientists few weeks ago, will be found to
be milk from cows that have been treated with
bovovaccine. In The York=Philadelphia
Medical Journal article recently appeared
regarding the results of experiments with milk
from immune cattle. This announced that
Figari, experimenting in France, had fed two
infants with the milk Of immune cows. The
was capable of absorbing the agglutinins and
antitoxins Of tuberculosis contained in the milk
of immune animals The method of treatment
not only endows the blood with means for
specific defence against tuberculosis, but also
benefcially affects the general nutrition Of the
body increases the patients weight and en-
riches the hamoglobin.