New-York tribune., 1910-06-28
VACCINE FOR TYPHOID
Or. Vincent's Formula Believed
To Be Same as u. S. Army'S.

the announcement by Professor Vincent In
Paris, before the Academy OF Medicine OF
that city, of the results of his experiments
with an anti-typhoid vaccine. the statement
5,st issued by Commissioner Eugene H.
Porter. of the New York State Department
of Health. that there rs more typhoid In the
United States than In any other country
! New York alone having 1900 deaths ourihs
/ 1909. aroused the interest of medical men
throughout this country in the system fof
| prevention
| Although the treatment has been used TO
| q considerable extent in the armies OF Eng
land. Germany and this country for some
xears it has not come into general prac-
tice as yet.
| Medical authorities In this city are un-
| able to determine from the brief dispatches
| from Paris just what advances Pro!essor
| Vincent may have made, but MS IorHula
II is asserted. is practically the same as
that employed In the laboratories OF the
United States army medical corps at WASH
| ,ngton 1t is noted that PROFESSOR vincent
makes no claim that the vaccine mas inc
virtue of curing typhoid, once the oisea'o
makes its appearance, any more tiiah 'ae
cination can cure smallpox, although hS
effectiveness as a preventive is no iohsei
questioned ~.
Antf-typnoid vaccine has been used IN the
United States army for two years. anu uui
,ng tho last wear no fewer than ten thou-
sand soldiers have been treated, lhcluoin7 -
almost the entire garrison at Fort Brady
"a hundreds Of the soldiers at Fort SheIi-
dan and other posts. Vaccination agains'
tvnho,d is not compulsory In the army, ano
all those who have been treaieo nave 'O
mitted themselves voluntarily
The vaccine according to Coionei L. M
Mems of the medical corps Of the united
| States army. chief surgeon OF the depart
mont of the Lakes, is prepared on pi~O
tical1v the same basis in England, GERMANY
Ana the limited States as that followed Dl
. | posessor Vincent 1t Is an attenuate'
.irus and. like all serum vaccines, Is maui
. from, the baciIi of the disease, such as th'
TOWNS for tetanus, cholera, diphtnerla aii'
plague. . o,-,o,a
"Anti-tvphoid vaccine said Coione
Mans has not vet been used in civil NE
except perhaps in a few instances, peIa"s
the average person does not expect 10 ho'
tvnhoid fever and consequently tahe' =
, nrerautions against it. Nor is IL to pe g
: nacted that physicians would go Out hi'
. tbafr naiehborhoods and suggest tnat th
: +r..,r,ant he taken against the possiDiiit
of an attack of the disease. In the even
o+ an endemic in a certain locanty. ho"
, .,,ar a General vaccination Of those III dan
eAr of contracting the disease no doun
, would be advisable.
, .rThere has as yet been no opportuhit
n tc observe or make comparisons as 10 III
effectiveness of the treatment III the Oiii'e
: States army for the reason that we DO III
j have typhoid in the army in times OF peac'
S Our posts are SO sanitary and the ori u,
. water so pure that case of typhoio III u
army is of very rare occurrence
"But in the English army the opportunit
for observing the value of the vaccine cam
during the Boer war England was first
usa the anti-typhoid vaccine, and gres
u numbers of the soldiers sent to Sout
u Africa were treated. The result Shove
! that among those who had been vaccinatt
: there was very small percentage
! tvphoid. while among those who had NJ
: been treated there was vast extent OF Il
!, disease.
4 "Anv effort to introduce the general VI
u u of the vaccine would doubtless be met vii
= the same skepticism and prejudice as exi
against vaccination for smallpox Wh
- this country even has an ant-vaccfnatit
- society, the members Of which are oppos'
to vaccination, in spite of the fact tnat
wiped out the smallpox In Porto Rico, Cui
and the Philippines through compuiso
= vaccination"
: Health Commissioner Evans also ne
= that Professor Vincent was by no meal
- the originator of the use of vaccine again
- typhoid. but granted that his experirneh
=. might have had the effect of increasing
effectiveness of the treatment In renderh
humanity immune from the disease
oi Professor Wright. of England, was u
u first in the field 20 use anti-typhoid va
u. cine" said DR.. Evans. land II was us
successfully in the Boer war. since th'
o. extensive experiments have been made
- Germany. the United States and other cou
tries. OF course, the vaccination or the e
tire population of a municipality as a pr
!, caution against typhoid is out OF the que
ton. though any person feeling himseh
er danger from the disease would nave
se difficulty in securing treatment Chlcal
IN is at present practically free from typnol
H. There have been ninety deaths TINS yea
s which is an average of eight per lo"'UVo
Is nopuIation and the lowest rate OF any ci