New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-05-20
TUBERCULOSIS SERUM
FOUND, SAYS PHYSICIAN
DR.. Karl Won Ruck Announces
Discovery of Vaccine 10
Make Persons Immune.
CALLED FREE FROM DANGER
Scientist Declares Tests MADE
with Many Children Proved
Successful in Every
Latent Case.
IRy Telegraph to The Tribune

Chicago. May ia serum when 's
discoverer believes gives immunity from
tuberculosis was announced yesterday IN
Chicago. The discoverer is an American
scientist. Dr. Karl Won Ruck, Of Ashe-
Vile. n. c.. First reports of the eXper'-
ments on which he bases his contentious
were given to the Chicago Medical oo-
ciety in a paper prepared by DR.. Won
Ruck.
An elaboration Of the paper appeared
in THE Journal of the American Medical
Association" and is to be followed pE
additional information which Dr. Won
Ruck hopes will revolutionize the world
wide warfare against the white plague.
DR.. Won Ruck has found vaccine
which he says will kill the germs OF
tuberculosis in a latent stage and make
the subject immune from further raw
ages of the disease. Experiments made
on children and counter experiments
made on animals are said to have de-
monstrated the value Of the discovery.
Dr. Won huCh uOeS hoI y V' "SSN'' - 80
euro consumption in its advanced
stages.
"All / feel justified in claiming says
the physician, in his statement to The
Journal of the Medical Association. rs
that l am the first to have made sue
cessful advent In this most important
and promising field Of specific pro-
phylaxis, In disease that leads the
mortality statistics Of the human race
The hint that DR.. Won RuCk has given
10 the scientific world of the composition
of his serum is in the following words:
The preparation that I have made
and used contains all the soluble proteid
constituents of the tubercule bacillus,
with the addition Of small amount Of
fatty extractives. 1t would require far
too much space to describe the mode Of
preparation at this time, but this will
appear at an early date
Or. Won Ruck says his vaccine is alb
solutey free from real or even supposed
danger, powerful enough to act on one
or two applications, uniform in action to
degree that results need not be con-
trolled in practice. and 80 simple that
any physician can apply IL.
Dr. Won Ruck has vaccinated 800 chill
dren since July I, 1911. including such
as had already acquired tuberculosis
infection, but in latent form. In none
of these children has there been any dis
agreeable effect as a result 81 the vac
cination, he asserts, and in every one
sufficient degree OF immunity could
be demonstrated by testing the blood
serum after q single dose without
dimnution on denomination, three to
eight months later. while in those al
was found that the signs had either dis
appeared or had changed for the better
and that general Improvement, with
marked increase Of weight, had occurred
The announcement made by Or. Won
Ruck Of the discovery OF vaccine that
made persons into whose systems IL was
injected immune from tuberculosis was not
received with much enthusiasm by any Of
several New York physicians whose opinion
was asked last night. While all agreed that
remedy for tuberculosis, or a preyen-
tive OF the nature OF that which Or. Won
Ruck claims to have discovered. would be
an invaluable asset to medical lore. II was
generally said that a test more rigorous
and thorough than that already given the
new serum would have 10 be made before
the scientific world Endorsed it.
The announcement, coming at time
when several such remedies have been ex-
plotted, and which in the main have proved
impractlcable, physicians are in mood -
hold back opinions until a thorough test
has been made Of the new discoveries