Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-07-16

~W~I LneTo chn 70 ~ AS
for contracting the NAL
ADV unless one chooses. People now
adays do not catch" smallpox II they
have been properly vaccinated. IN
case they neglect that customary pre-
caution, 1t Is considered that they have
deliberately exposed themselves to tne
risk Of contagion. The same PROPOSE
dion WIN in future apply to typhoid.
inasmuch as means have been found
whereby, through incubation with 9
suitable vaccine" anybody may Dc
rendered permanently immune-that Is
70 say, incapable Of acquiring the ais
ease.
Typhoid in old time was known %
s'putrid fever" 1t was one OF the most
deadly Of human maladies. largely De-
cause the proper methods to adopt In
dealing with It were not yet known.
But even today, when It kills less than
10 per cent Of the victims it assails,
Il Ii exceedingly destructive.
caused so per cent Of the total deaths
on the American side during the war
with spain-the disease, which RACED
IN the military camps, being distriD-
uted chiefly by flies. And it was re-
Asntly estimated by DR.. George N. ko-
bsr Of washington. d. Ca recognised
authority on the subject that, reck-
oning loss Of wage-earning capacity.
expense for medical attendance, ETC.,
typhoid fever in the United States
costs annually not less than S360,00O,-
700. Accepting these figures. 1t appears
that the disease costs the people OF
the United States more than a billion
dollars evsFy three years, writes Rene
Bach in Technical World Magazine
ys rho imnunA.ins Vaccine.
There il Just one advantage in hav-
ing typhoid. An attack Of It renders
one immune to the complaint there
after-at ali events practically 30, In
asmuch a. q recurrence Of the malady
In q person who has once recovered
from It il uncommon. But 1t would
nnraly be very advantageous II such
immunity could be attained without
going through the sickness and suf-
fering, with incidental risk Of dying.
Fortunately, this very thing has at
art been accomplished. That II to say.
Z means has been discovered whereby
anybody may be rendered immune 70
typhoid-the result being obtained by
4 simple process of vaccination. The
principle Of vaccination for smallpox
is that of utilizing the germ OF near
Unrelated disease Of the COW, much
milder in character, to produce i'm
munity against the more serious NAL
adv. This idea nowadays Is begin
ming to be applied. with much success,
to other maladies, notably rabies--by
Pasteur'a discoyery-and cholera and
bubonic plague, the two latter at the
instance Of Haffl1ine. an Englishman.
Vaccination for typhoid-flrst worked
out by Sir A. e. Wright of London
Il based upon the same theory.
For some time past the United
States War Department has been busi-
" engaged with the problem of typhoid
vaccination, and at the Army Medical
Museum in washington large quanti-
ties of the immunizing fluid have been
manufactured and put up in sealed
glass tubes, ready for use each tube
containing the few drops requisite FOL
dose. For military purposes 1t is Of
utmost importance to fnd means
whereby the "putrid fever" which hal
always been the most deadly enem!
OF troops commonly killing more mel
than were slain by the enemy-shal
Ne robbed Of its power to destroy
How the vaccine Ia Prepared.
There is no reason, indeed, why so
diars In the field in future war
should suffer any loss whatever by t,
phoid. 1t will doubtless be required {
every recruit, as a matter Of cours,
that before being finally accepted h
shall be immunized against the mall
dy. As for the regular army. sewers
hundred men, volunteering for Il
purpose, have already been inoculatet
and, the investigation having no
passed beyond the experimental stag
every oficer and enlisted man will
subjected to the treatment
The vaccine" for typhoid is pl
pared by an extremely simple process
A quantity Of beef broth is made. an
when Il has had time to cool, I.
typhoid bacilli are put into 1t, Fir
ing It an acceptable food they mul
ply with great rapidity. until. after
few hours, the vessel of soup contai
countless billions Of them They a
then killed by putting the broth into
sort Of oven and heating it to poi
N the neighborhood of boiling
This is the "vaccine"---a soup c.
tanning the dead bodies Of billions
typhoid bacilli. It is now ready 1
usa. But first. to make perfectly 81
that all the bacilli are dead. SIN
unantity of the soup Is put into FIRE
hatch Of broth. previously steriliz
81 heat If. on microscopic examil
ton, some hours later, no living ba
are found IN the new broth,
taken for granted that the STUD