Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-12-27

terrible physical changes were at the base of the
brain. By and by he used strong goat for the
poison, and the goat, instead of dying did the
weaker other animals, lived for the goats blood
had exerted that mysterious protective action that
transformed the poison antipoison; and
when the serum, antitoxn, it is called
tried on still other animals poisoned with men
nights germs the antltoXln goats blood proved to
be the very remedy sought, and the monkey that
treated in this way recovered That is, in
popular language, the way ant1toMc medicines are
obtained.
Do you recall that old saying, The hair of the
dog that bit him will cure him? There is much
wisdom in this folklore, according to the light Of
modern science.
Some Things That Have Been Done
HERE are some of the things that the Rockefeller
- Institute has already done:
DR. Theobald Smith, of the directors by investi
cations of Texas cattle fever, has carried forward
great protective work There have also been impor
tant researches in the problem of New York's milk
supply. Drs. Meltzer and John Auer have studied
injections of magnesium salts in certain cases and
have noted the narcotzing effects on nerve fibers.
DR.. Levene has delved into processes of digestion,
the destruction and construction going on in what
called primary dissertation products Melt
ger and Auer have also thought deeply the action
of ergot the stomach and intestines. DR.. Jobing
has examined special immunity principles in the
blood of vaccinated calves Drs. L. kast and S. J.
Meltzer have carried important work in cocaine;
Drs. Meltzer and Salant have devoted long study
to the bile. Dr. E. L. Ope has made researches
corning the insolubity of substances in the fluids
of the body, when injected in the tissues. Dr. Le-
vene has examined facts about gelatine DR.. Hideyo
Noguch high authority on the complex nature
of snake bite, has done much toward making the
properties and principles fairly well understood.
DR. Fexner has examined dysentery baclli and
CerebrOSplnal meningitis.
One phase of recent work deals with the rate of
absorption from muscles, subject of important
value, breaking ground in new field The expert
ments were made rabbits. Deep seated injec-
tons used, with minute study of the effects.
Noguch has experimental on rattlesnakes, cobras,
and moccasins, and has tabuated results between
of venom and lesser amounts; more especially
the so called protective action of venom.
Still another important phase of recent researches
has been with proteids, they called; that is,
the nutrient material found in animal vegetable
tissue the chief part of every CELL uniting carbon,
oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, and sulphur. One eats
proteids every day, and there is saying, Man is
made of proteids.' This is hard study. One
class of scientists holds that all vegetable and animal
life is endowed with some uneXplanable force,
vital principle; and another group says that it is
possible to explain organic life only by the laws
that hold good for the lower forms of life, such
the cell.
Delving Into Cell Life
THE Rockefeller Institute is stopping at theo-
res but is delving into cell life to find out things