The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1909-09-17
NEW TREATMENT FOR TYPHOID
Important Paper Read Before the
Greenwood County Medical Society
by a Member of the Senior Glass
of the Medical College Of
Charleston.

Greenwood, Sept. >9.---Local physi-
clans are very much interested in
new treatment Of typhoid fever, which
may be one Of greatest Importance.
A paper on the subject was read be-
fore the county medical society Mon
day by the discoverer Of the treat
ment, DR.. ". T. Lander, and the mat
ter was freely discussed. The usual
procedure in such matters is, Of
course, to have all publication first
made in the regular journals of the
profession and then they can be pub
lished by the lay papers. This treat
ment is being freely discussed, how
ever, now, and it will not be amiss to
tell something about it as the paper
read by DR.. Lander will not be pub
lished for a month yet in the State
Medical Journal. DR.. Lander was for
number Of years professor in his
fathers college, WILLIAMSON Female
College, now Lander College. Three
years ago he entered the South Caro-
lima Medical College, in Charleston, and
has one more year before his gradE-
alton. He is a man Of mature judg-
ment, and has always taken great in-
terest in the work Of the county med
ical society, and it was at the request
Of the society that he prepared the
paper on typhoid above referred to.
DR.. Lander does a considerable
amount of work in the chemical lab
aratory at Lander College, making
tests of blood, etc., and is frequently
called on to make tests for physicians.
In this work he has to have fresh
cultures as in the case of typhoid
bacteria they do not work so we'll IT
over two days old. Some time ago he
was making up new medium IN
which to place new growth of ty-
phoid bacteria, and while engaged
| in the work was interrupted. He states
that in such cases one IS not always
accurate because Of the interruption
and such was the case with him then.
There is a regular formula for this
medium in which to grow the germs.
It is really SORT Of weak beef broth,
but has to be made according to reg
ular formula. He discovered after lit
tie while that the cultures in the new
test with the supposedly correct me-
dunn were not doing so we'll, not grow
ing as they should. The idea then occur
red to him that if a similar condition
should be brought or could be brought
about in the human system, great
progress would be made in the fight
against typhoid fever. He began to
investigate 10 find out what was the
matter with his medium.
The result Of his Investigations were
! thai the typhoid germs will not grow
in a medium more alkillne than the
prescribed one. Too much acid does
moi seem 10 affect the growth, but an
alkaline preponderance does affect the
growth. il retards it. This then, in
brief. is the basis OF the discovery, as
it can be told by layman 20 laymen.
The idea is to develop an alkaline con-
dition in the system Of a typhoid fe-
yer patient so that nature can be aid
! ed o: backed up in her fight to choke
down the typhoid fever germ. As is
we'll known. As SOON aS 4 patient de-
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