The Minneapolis journal., 1905-10-07
NEW SERUM FOE
TO WHITE DEATH
DR.. Behring, Paris Scientist, Cures
Animals After tuberculosis
Is Fully Developed
Serum Is Obtained from Milk Of
Cows Rendered Immune
to Disease. .=:."
Journal Special Service.

Journal Special Service.
Paris, Oct. 7.-Professor Behring has
announced that he has discovered cure
for tuberculosis. It is learned that
portion at least Of Professor Behring g
remedy comes from milk of cows pre-
yiously rendered immune to tuberculo-
sis. As it is scarcely probable that
this milk can be used in its usual form,
there is some reason for believing that
a serum alone is employed, and 1t could
scarcely be utilized in any other way
than by subcutaneous injections.
At the Pasteur institute, Professor
Metchnikoff pointed to Professor Beh-
rings scientific career as q guarantee
of trustworthiness, and said the RENE
dy was in the form of a powder. .
Professor Behring intends to make a
communication to The members Of the
stnberculosis congress on sha subject of
his remedy, which he calls st'Tx. $50 81.
s5 Report Causes Sensation.
Whatever may be the practical value
Of Professor Behring's 8 new treatment
of tuberculosis, the announcement Of his
discovery has created a sensation in
public. The professor says:
'The exact facts are that I have
been studying for long time q new
method Of treating tuberculosis and
think I have broken fresh ground.
There are certain animals that contract
this malady with great facility and
have hitherto proved refractory to all
attempts at vaccination. / have sue
| ceeded in rendering them immune, as
/ in curing them when the disease is: fully
Developed. .~,.>.: .;
! s''Experiments on mankind have not
yet been made, but there is ground for
hope in this respect, the path. | am fol-
lowing being totally different from any
explored up to the: present" ...I.. 49,.
g. Two Kinds of Consumption
Professor Behring went on to indi-
cate that he found the germ of his new
departure in works on pathology writ
ten by the French SCIENTISTS, Bayle,
Lebert and Robin, in the early part of
the last century. They classified tuber-
lied by transparent granulation, known
as Bayle's granulation, and the other
by suppuration. go : - : :,
Professor Behring says his studies
have convinced him that the old distinc
tion Of the French pathologists is well
founded and may be fecund in results
He continues: ~: ~
"Bayle's $ granulation does not con
tain a microbe. It is not accompanied
| ny u0 OIuC1f oROCAOS "
tuberculosis, on the contrary, swarm'
with microbes. A minute investigation
of the evolution of both species in tht
lungs and spleen has led me to wonde:
whether the cure Of the malady Nigh
not be found in the malady itself.
"By means of a process, which
:, shall explain later, I utilize Bayles
granulations to eradicate the evolution
of the other form OF lesion-the on
+ that is really dangerous, the one tina
J, contains microbes, suppurates and re
suits in purulent consumption Of tn
, lungs @ u
Immlnized Cows Milk Used,
| saranac Lake. N. Y, Oct. IN. Il
Ravenel Of Philadelphia, who, visite.
Professor Behring a year ago and wa
shown around his. farm, said Of Beh1
7 ing's ure for. tuberculosis:
"When I visited Professor Behrin
last year, cattle were being vaccinate
by an injection into their veins of liv
ing tubercle bacilli attenuated by lon
= growth. in an artificial culture medium
/ The idea was that immune bodie
o passed into the: milk Of the immunize
0 animals and the milk, from the i'm
o munized cows was to be used for cor
Y sumptive patients. Professor Maraglis
no had previously shown that withou
j. doubt the milk of immunized cows doe
e contain immune bodies. In fact, M
s ragliano s method is being tested at th
f Henry Phipps institute in Philadelphia
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