Bisbee daily review., 1911-04-04
Interesting Papers Read
 Before the Women's Club

ing the advantage and disadvantage of the use of Anti Toxin. There is too much to be found on both sides for anything less than a volume to be satisfactory and even a volume or two would probably leave the reader undecided which to take.
 Sometimes Authorities" even in law becloud rather :han clarify the atmosphere. Some opinions are very radical. being positively hostile. not only to experimentation in any form upon living animals, but also to vac cination and the use of Anti Toxin.
 My aim in preparing this brief article is more to decline rather than discuss the great problem which may require years for peace % be fully proclaimed
 Toxin is a special poisonous SC erection of micro organisms, such as germs, bacteria. bacillus. etc. which permeate the system and cause dis l ease.
 ! Anti Toxin is a substance, elabo rated in the blood during the course of infectious diseases, the action of which .s to antidote the ~:oxins formed by the germs causing the dis ease. This is one of natures modes of protection against disease. and the principle has been utilized as a means of cure. The use of anti toxin is applicable in the prevention and treatment Of only a few of he in fectOus diseases. notably diphtheria and tetanus or lock jaw. In the af fections in which it is not applicable, nature employs other modes of cure, the most familiar Of which is stim ulating the white corpuscles "a
 greater activity. While coruuseles are living cells that devour bacte ria and other noNious matter. The anti toxin formed in the body is sometimes insufficient, in the case of a severe infection. unaided. tC
 aneidOte the poison or toxin Of tho
 disease, so that when antin toxiI
 is injected into the blood it supple
 ments that already formed so thaf
 btkt it-tlANAL SLdluS ldI SFtdlEl
 chance of recovery. Anti toxin a.
 used in the treatment of disease
 say diphtheria. for example. is ol
 tained from the blood of the horse The animal is subjected to repeated injections of increasing amounts o dipththeria bacillus. in the effort
 to destroy the toxins of the bacillu,
 so injected an increasing quantitl
 of anti toxin is formed in the bloot of the horse. and finally this is prt
 duced in an excessive amount ia greater than was needed to ant
 dote the toxins elaborated by tn bacillus contained in the last inje tion. Blood is then drawn from tn, animal which has been rendered in mune to the action of the diphtheri; bacillus and the serum freed iron the corpuscles, but containing tn antitoxin, is sealed up to be uset for injection into the blood of pc
 sons suffering from diphtheri- When used in the case of one wht
 has been exposed to cOHtagi1n. bu
 has not yet shown symptoms of th
 disease, it acts as a preventative ln the case of lock jaw this is tn chief value of the anti toxin. as ' is seldom eficacious in effecting cure after the disease has once bee ! fully developed
 Statistics show that in ninetee of the leading cities of the worl, v the death rate from diphtheria ina
 decreased to one fourth since tn ! discovery of anti toxin In the earl dreadful days the only comfort W could wive the distracted mother
 was, that N is Gods will" Possibl ;hen it was, but nov, 'tis not