The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-07-14
TYPHOID FEVER
IS CONQUERED
AS Result of Pure Accident, Absolute
Cure and Preventive for the
Disease Has Been
Found.
THE VACCINATION PLAN
Experiments Prove That the Malady
Need Not be Feared Any
Longer by the
People.
by William Philip Sims, Paris Cor.

by William Philip Sims, Paris Cor
respondent of the United Press.l
PARIS, July 14.-7As the result OF
pure accident. an accident which made
the blood of at least one hospital nurse
run cold, the discovery of an unfailing
method of preventing typhoid fever
has been officially recognized by the
authorities here and its discoverer pro
claimed one of the world greatest
benefactors to mankind.
DR.. Henri Vincent anti-typhic vac
cine matter, tested in the most unusual
of ways, has been proved absolutely
lunfailing as a typhus preventative
and practically unfailing as a cure after
| a patient is stricken. The Vincent
virus, therefore. has been hailed by
specialists as doubly valuable, es-
pecially at the present time when com
paratively few people have been vacci'
mated against typhoid.
DR.. J. Thiroloix of the Paris city
Hospitals, and one of the most noted
physicians of France, has pronounced
4 formally in favor of general vaccina
ton. 1t was he who made the official
test of DR.. vincent's work, and who.
indirectly and unintentionally, caused
4 to be administered to living patien-
4 billions of the most virulent typhoid
4 germs.
4 1t was some three years ago that
| the discovery was made known to the
medical world, DR.. Vincent not claim
ing to be the pioneer in the field, but
rather follower CT Dr. Wright, the
English scientist, who first experiment.
: ed along that line. Considerable scep'
: ticism was manifested, but Dr. Thiro-
! Ioix, without believing or disbelievins
l in the discovery determined to test II
| as far as humanity possible, since hu
I manity was crying out for just some
such thing.
i The ultimate proof of vaccine, DR.
g Thiroloix, in common with other scien
4 lists, considered, was in the ability
i a yaccinated person to withs and an.
, and all sorts of exposure to the dis
. case, just as anyone properly vaccl
mated against smallpox may withou
fear, sleep in the same bed with pa
). tient i'll with the malady. The rea
!, test, therefore, would be to select one
!, two or three subjects, vaccinate then
: with the Vincent antityphic liquid ant
: later inoculate them with the germs o
!. typhoid and watch what happened
: This, however. was manifestly out 0
: the question since the subjects them
:, selves could hardly be found, and !
y they would, DR.. Thiroloix was not will
! ing to shoulder such responsibility.
{, But hazard was to have it's way,
DR.. Thiroloix had yaccinated mum
Der of people after the Vincent metho
and continued to vaccinate others Il
: growing numbers. None SO treated
and among them We're nurses constan,
ly attending typhoid patients-wa
y ever stricken. Also, the physical
q noted, patients i'll Of typhoid, and vac
cinated as the well persons had beer
n after three or four days invariabl
IT showed improvement and, whereas
a unyaccinated patients were Ill frol
e 80 to 40 days. or even still longer, tn
Is others were up and about at the en-
of two weeks or twenty udyS.
le After a while DR. Thiroloix, to aul
W ment the effect of the vaccine, admir-
istered to his patients wine-glassfull
1t of sterilised cultures of typhoid bacill
iy And one day, by mistake, nurse az
ministered to patient similar glas
TO full of the pure culture, ultra virulen
every one of the hundreds of billion
H. of germs squirming and very muc
II, alive.
When the nurse found out her mi
Ia take, she swooned time and tin
~ again. Through her carelessness, ST
u inst knew, the patient would die of tt
most virulent typhoid DR.. Thiroloi
re too felt the man lost as did the oth'
hospital physicians. And, as the patlel
had already been vaccinated the
u .