Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1909-07-30

S8&yWHB there can be no reason
for contracting the NAL
ady 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 the
risk of contagion. The same PROPOSE
ton will in future apply to typhoid
inasmuch as means have been found
whereby. through inoculation with a
suitable vaccine" anybody may be
rendered permanently immune that Is
to say, incapable of acquiring the dis
ease.
Typhoid In old time was known es
"putrid fever" 1t was one of the most
deadly of human maladies. largely be-
cause the proper methods to adopt in
dealing with 1t we're not yet known
But even to-day, when it kills less than
10 per cent of the victims it assails
1t is exceedingly destructive. 1t
caused 80 per cent of the total deaths
on the American side during the war
with Spain-the disease, which ragged
in the military camps, being distrib-
uted chiefly by flies. And 1t was re-
Gently estimated by DR.. George M. Ko-
ber of Washington, D. Ca recognized
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 $3.50, ,000,-
900. Accepting these figures, 1t appears
that the disease costs the people OF
the United States more than billion
dollars every three years, writes Rene
Bach in Technical World Magazine.
The Immunixing Vaccine.
There is just one advantage in hav-
ing typhoid An attack of 1t renders
one immune to the complaint there
after-at all events practically so, in.
asmuch as a recurrence of the rfialady
in person who has once recovered
from it Is uncommon. But 1t would
surely 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
last been accomplished. That is to say
means has been discovered whereby
anybody may be rendered immune to
typhoid-the result being obtained by
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
ady. This idea nowadays is begin
/ ming to be applied, with much success
to other maladies, notably rabies-by
Pasteurs discovery-and cholera and
bubonic plague, the two latter at the
Instance of Haffkine, an Englishman
Vaccination for typhoid-first worked
out by Sir A. E. Wright of London
is based upon the same theory.
For some time past the United
States War Department has been bust
ly engaged with the problem of typhoid
vaccination, and at the Army Medical
Museum in Washington large quantl
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 for
dose. For military purposes it is ot
utmost Importance to find means
whereby the "putrid fever" which has
always been the most deadly enemy
of roops-commonly killing more men
than were slain by the enemy-shall
"e robbed of it's power to destroy.
How the Vaccine Is Prepared.
There is no reason, indeed, why sol
diers in the field in future wars
should suffer any loss whatever by ty
phoid. 1t will doubtless be required oI
every recruit, as a matter of course
that before being finally accepted he
shall be immunized against the mala
dy. AS for the regular army, severa
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 b,
subjected to the treatment
The vaccine" for typhoid is pre-
pared by an extremely simple process
A quantity of beef broth is made, and
when It has had time to cool, few
typhoid bacilli are put into it. Find
Ing 1t an acceptable food, they multi
ply with great rapidity, until, after
few hours. the vessel of soup contains
countless billions of them. They ar,
then killed by nutting the broth into .