The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1912-03-12
DAY OF TYPHOID PASSED.
Vaccine to Prevent Disease Is
Received Here From National
Government.
EFFECTIVENESS OF SCERUM
Tests Prove That Disease Can be
Successfully Treated By
New Method.
EFFECTIVENESS OF SCERUM

That typhoid fever can be wiped out
of this community by the use of the
new vaccine recently employed with
remarkable y success in the United
States Army, is the belief of the many
prominent physicians of Paris. ''It is
now largely your own fault, say these
physicians, "if you die of typhoid
fever"
/ In fact it became known yesterday
through local druggist that some of
the anti-typhOid vaccine, as it lis call
ed. has already been received here, it
being ordered from the National
Vaccine and AntitOXin Institute of
Washington. The vaccine, while it
| has produced results which compare
favorably with smallpox vaccination,
is entirely different from smallpox
vaccine, and the manner of VAGINA
! tion is much different.
The anti-typhoid vaccine which can
only be administered by a regular
practicing physician is given in three
doses. Unlike smallpox vaccine it
does not produce sore. 1t is intro
duced beneath the skin of the arm by
means of hollow needle. The quaint
ty introduced is small and it produces
no more pain than a pin prick. Fol-
lowing each treatment there develops
very slight fever, the skin becomes
flushed about the point where the
vaccine was introduced. Sometimes
the patient complains Of headache.
Many of those who have been vacci-
mated explain their symptoms after
being treated as feeling like they had
just taken heavy cold. The vaccine
is usually given at four o'clock in the
afternoon, and such symptoms as de-
velop usually pass off during the hours
of sleep. Ordinarily the patient is
ready for work the next day.
Out of the thousands of VAGINA
tions performed in the United States
Army, there has not developed a single
serious after effect
1t seems a proven fact that this vac
cine does protect absolutely from
typhoid. In that portion of the Army
vacciDated last year there was report
ed only one certain case of typhoid,
five other very mild cases being class
ed as doubtful. There were no deaths
from these Eases. Among the unva eel
mated troops during the same period
there were four hundred and eighteen
cases and thirty-two deaths.
A striking instance of the efficacy of
the vaccine is shown by one company
of engineers who attended the military
maneuvers at Gettysburg. Of the
hundred and eighteen members, ninety
two were vaccinated, two had previ-
ously had typhoid, the other twenty
four were unprotected. Typhoid fever
broke out in camp. Six of the twenty
four who were not vaccinated develop
ed the fever, not one Of the others was
affected.
During the recent mobilization of
troops along the Mexican border all
soldiers were given the new vaccine.
There developed but one case of
typhoid-a recruit who had not yet
been vaccinated. 1t is claimed that
this was the first military camp in the
history of the world to escape this
scourge. During the Spanish-Ameri-
can war there were over twenty
thousand cases in an army of only one
hundred and seven thousand men.
But the interesting part is not only
in the results produced, but the won
derful manner in which the vaccine
accomplishes it's purpose. 1t has long
been known to all that we have Ger.
tain germ diseases such as smallpox,
measles, scarlet fever, etc., but once.
But it has only been in recent years
that scientists have begun to under
stand the why of this phenomenon.
1t seems that nature has the wonder
full facility of producing for every
germ introduced into the body several
kinds of protective substances. which
when developed rob the germs of their
power and make them easy victims of
the millions of little white blood
corpuscl5s which eagerly gather them
up and carry them out from the body.
For each specific germ there are
specific protective substances which
act against this particular germ, but
have no effect on other bacteria.
When one develops disease great
battle begins raging W thin the body,
and millions and millions of germs at
tack the system which in turn is de-
Tended by the white blood corpuscles
or phacgotyes, aided by the protective
substances which are developed for
the purpose uf rendering the germs
harmless and making them easy prey
for the white blood corpucsles, and for
neutralizing the p0isons or toxins
which are thrown off by the growing
microbes. And so the battle con-
tinues if enough of these protective
Substances are developed in time the
germs are overcome, their poisons are
neutralized and the patient RECEIVERS.
If the germs themselves develop more
rapidly than nature produces the pro-
tective substances the patti ent dies.
But once a patient has reco vered from
one of these germ diseases there re-
mains always in blood enough of these
protective substances to render him
free from future attacks of the same
germ.
In typhoid fever two of these pro-
tective substances are now recognized
under the name of agglutinus and
poisons. The agglutinus once brought
into contact with the typhoid germs
paralyze them and destroy all their