Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-06-18

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-: rMm rSay f#ta>o
s>M|"~- ~n"%ra Isg.ln
e =aE@sA ROE this time on it Is
j ~ merely a question Wh'th
~ er one wishes to he proof
~. against attack by typhoid
E4SFE%sS%Gs,g fever or not. Certainly
tsESsS there can be no reason
SnaAIa@-2a@s' for contracting the NAL
adv unless one chooses. People now
adays do not catch" smallpox If they
have been properly vaccinated' III
case they neglect that customary PFC
caution, it is considered that Nh'E nav
deliberately exposed themselves 10 Tue
risk of contagiOn. The same rolo@I
ton will in future apply to l!pho'd'
inasmuch as means have been l0NnA
Whereby. through inoculation "lth Il
suitable '~vaccine,' anybody may h@
rendered permanently immunc-'hat -
TO say, incapable OF acquiring the o'3
ease.
Tvphoid in old time was known as
'putrid fcvcr.' 1t was one OF the h'"'N
deadly Of human maladl"S, largely ~"
cause the proper methods to adopt III
dealing with it were not yet kho"h'
Dut oven to dav. when it Kills less thah
10 nor cent Of the victims 1t asSall7'
it is exceedingly Destructive ~
caused So yer cent Of the total deaths
| on the American side during 'he wal
with SDain-the disease, when raSru
in the military camps, being ulslFl"
utcd chiefly by flies. Ana 1t WAS re-
GENTLY estimated NY Or. George NJ. no
Der OF Washington, D. ca recognizes"
| authority on the subjcct-that. reck-
oning loss of wage earning capacity
ev,,,nso for medical attendance, etc,
h fever in the United States
costs annually not less than $3'o'"o"'
900. Accounting these figures, II appears
that the disease costs the people Vi
the United States more than a nlii'oh
dollars every three years, writes Rene
zach in Technical World Magazine.
rho ~lnmunizing Vaccine.
Thcro is lust one advantage IN nav
inr typhOid. An attack Of 1t ronderS
ono immune TO the complaint there
after-at all events practically so, IN.
nSnlCn as q IptIll tltS -
IN . narson who has once recovered
from it is uncommon. But II "o"''
surely be very advantageous II such
immunity could be attained "ltho"'
going through the sickness and sui
fcring. with incidental risk OF dying
Fortunately, his very thing has al
last been accomplished That IS TO say
q means has been discovered WHEREBY
ANYBODY may be rendered immune u
tvDhoid-the result being obtained oy
q simple process of vaccination. Inc
nrincip1e of vaccination for smallpox
is that of utilizing the germ OF a near
lv-related disease of the COW, mucn
wilder IN character, to produce i'm
,,rnitv against the more serious NAL
adv. This idea nowadays is begin
Wins to be aDplied, with much success,
"a other maladies, notably rabies-by
yasteur's discovery-and cholera an"
oubonic plague, the two latter at the
instance of Haffkine, an Engllshman
Vaccination for typhoid-frst worked
ont bv Sir A. f. Wright Of London
is based upon the same theory.
For some time past the United
Statos War Department has been bust
" engaged with the problem Of typhoid
vaccination, and at the Army M'd!ca
Museum In Washington large quaint
tics of the immunizing fluid have been
manufactured and put up in sealed
class tubes, ready for use-each tube
containing the few drops requisite for
q dose. For military purposes it is OF
utmost importance to find a means
whereby the "putrid fever" which has
always been the most deadly enemy
of troops-commonly killing more men
than were slain by the enemy-shall
be robbed Of its power to destroy.
How tho Vaccine Is Prepared.
There is no reason, indeed, why sol
dlers in the field In future wars
should suffer any loss whatever by ty
Dhoid. 1t will doubtless be required OF
every recruit, as a matter OF course
that before being finally accepted he
shall be immunized against the mala
DIV, IS for the regular army, sevcrdI
hundred men, volunteering for the
purpose, have already been inoculated;
and. the investigation having now
PASSED beyond the experimental stage
every officer and enlisted man Will DC
subjected to the treatment.
The vaccine for typhoid Is pre-
nared by an extremely simple process
l A quantity of beef broth is made, and
. when 1t has had time to cool, a few
typhoid bacilli are put into it. Find
. ing it an acceptable food, they multi
ply with great rapidity, until, after
. few hours, the vessel OF soup contain:
l countless billions of them. They arr
then killed by putting the broth into {
l sort of over and heating it to a poin'
l In the neighborhood of boiling.
= This is the "vaccine"-a soup con
y taining. the dead bodies Of billions o
, typhoid bacilli. 1t is now ready TO
4 use. But first, to make perfectly SUR
that all the bacilli are dead, a small
y quantity of the soup is put into a fresl
=, batch of broth, previously sterilize'
- by heat. If, on microscopic examina
ton, some hours later, no living bacill
: are found in the new broth, it /
9 taken for granted that the stuff i
all right, and the soup holding the dc
Il funct germs is put up in little glas
tubes. Each tube. after being steri,
led. receives q certain number @