The Washington herald., 1909-02-01
WILL FIGHT TYPHOID
Army Medical Corps to Use
Vaccination.
SECRETARY WRIGHT APPROVES
Medical Board Decides on the Move
without a Dissenting voiee-Treat-
ment VIII BE Entirely Voluntary.
Three Stations to BE Establish
ed at any Early Date.

Vaccination as q preventive OF typhoid
fever has been adopted by the medical
corps Of the army. and the new system
viii be introduced as rapidly as an sde-
quate supply Of serum can be prepared
and distributed
Vaccination viii be entirely voluntary,
and no officer OF soldier VIII be required
to submit to the treatment against his
will
/ The adoption OF the method as pre-
ventive OF typhoid has been recommended
BY board Of eminent medical scientists.
who are also first Iieutenants Of the Med
/ Teal Reserve Corps. The members OF this
board were: Dr. Victor c. Vaughn. Of
Ann Arbor: DR.. ". T Councilman. Har-
ward: DR.. John II. Musser. University Of
/ Pennsyiyania: Dr. Alexander Lambert, OF
New York, President Roosevelt's family
physician and professor Of clinical meoi-
cine at Cornell; Dr. Simon FleIner, d.
rector Of the Rockefeller Institute OF Ned
ical Research, in New York, and Dr. W
S. Thayer. Johns Hopkins Medical School
Brig. Gen. Robert II. O'Heill retired
| former surgeon general OF the army pre-
sided over the meeting Of the board.
Capt. Frederick F. Russell, Medical Corps,
lU. :. a. who has made q special in
vestigation Of vaccination as a means Of
immunizing against typhoid in foreign
armies. acted as recorder OF the board
Secretary Wright Approves.
Secretary OF War Wright has approved
the recommendations Of the board that
vaccination be adopted IN The army.
archaeological laboratories for the pTepa-
ration OF the serum used will be estab-
lnshed al Fort Leavenworth, Kans.. the
Preside Of San Francisco, and at Manila
In its report. the board said. in part
The experience Of the American sol
diers in the Spanish war is pretty gensr'
ally known everywhere IN the United
States. Regiment after regiment de-
veloped a greater or less number Oi
cases OF typhoid soon after Il was mus
tered into service. or after being assigned
to one OF the large concentration camps
No one believes this country VIII asair
have such an amount OF typhoid fever
as occurred in these two wars. snce y
Is 70 he hoped that the bitter lessons o.
experience have been learned; yet IN spite
OF the increase of our knowledge and al
the improvements IN the sanitation o'
camps. which have undoubtedly beer
put into practice. We cannot but recog
uize that there must stin be a gCOd dea
Of sickness and some deaths from thi'
disease II the army be again called upoT
] 10 take the field Gf war
Protection Il Found.
'It has long been recognized by ever
one that a person who has once ha'
typhoid is practically Injured against {
second attack. The medical profession
= has found in anti-typhoid vaccination
simple and harmless way Of srtihciaul
!, inducing almost thisS same amount o
protection
/ "A man receives a few drops OF IN
prophyiactic material By means o.
I hypcdermic injection into the arm. an
!, after q few hours he vii probably hsv
little fever or headache. and a tende
spot on the arm Il has, however. N
great advantage over vaccination sgains
: smallpox. that the tender spot on IN
. arm never becomes 8 sore.
1T is, in fact, a simple. clean, an
harmless affair, and & mere trife com
=, pared 20 the danger Of ufe. OF the Ion
: Illness and expense Of an attack 0
: typhoid fever"