Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-07-23
TO STAY CONSUMPTION
DISCOVERY REPORTED BY TWO
FRENCH PHYSICIANS.
Boiled Tuberculosis Bacilli introduced
Into the Digestive System
Acted Like Vaccination.

Another announcement has been made or
FORM OF vaccination against tuberculosis
that IL TO stay the ravages OF the great
white plague. DR.. Albert Calmette OF
Lille, France. and Dr. c. Guerin say that
heating or boiling for I'VE minutes viii
render tuberculosis baciili harmless. and
that II has been found by experiment that
such oacilli will permeate the system IL
taken into the stomach. Thereafter the
subject Is immune to viruient tuberculosis.
The experiments have SO far been per-
formed on calves and they have thus been
rendered immune to bovine tuberculosis. In
making the announcement before the Acad-
envy of Sciences. the doctors sad that there
seemed no reason why the same form or
protection should not work equally well
with human beings.
The translation OF the report OF the two
doctors. which has been forwarded 10 the
Department of Commerce and Labor by
Consul A. p. Atwell. is as follows:
MANY experiments having demonstrated
that tuberculous bacilli destroyed by heat
or other agents pass through the walls or
the intestines as readily as living bacilli
and are found in the messenteric ganglions
and lungs. We experimental with the OBJ
Ject OF discovering whether young animals
such as calves and kids that had been
made to swallow two doses, the second
forty-five days after the first. OF from I'VE
TO twenty-five grams OF dead bactlli or
bacflli whose virulence had been modined-
could endure with impunity the injection OF
a meal OF five centigrams OF fresh tuber-
culous matter taken from a COW, matter
which would be surely infectious under or
binary conditions. We are now convinced
that bovine baclli destroyed by boiling for
Ave minutes or simply heated during the
same period will, for FIVE months and even
for longer time to which II Is not now
possible to fix a limit, vaccinate perfectly
against viruient infection through the
digestive organs.
"Our belief founded on experiments. now
is that young calves may be vaccinated py
simple Intestinal absorption of bacillt SUD-
tected to heat and that this method of vac
cination is not dangerous IL further ex.
periments Justify the application OF this
method as preventive against BOVINE
tuberculosis nothing can be urged against
its application in the case OF human beings.
Vaccination at Birth.
We think IT viii be possible to guard
children against natural infection by giving
to them few days after birth and again
few weeks later very small quantity OF
tuberculous bacilli of human and bovine
origin subjected to heat and mixed with
little milk
..The only precaution absolutely neces-
sary and one not always easy 10 apply.
would be to guard children thus Vec ..,li 80
against all tuberculous contamination 10,
a period of at least four months speciai
nurseries might be founded for newborn
infants of tuberculous parents. wnere thes
might be protected against all tuoerculous
germs until they had acquired immunity
through vaccination. We believe Una, .ne sc
Amenities would be readily overcome IN
order to insure such immense advantages
a. those gained by rendering humanity re-
Factory to tuberculosis contagion-