The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1913-07-30

cd OF Treatmsnt-Anti- streptococcio
and nti-staphyloeoeeic vaeoinss Are
Injected In Early Stages Of Disease.
Sir Almroth e. Wright, the English
physician who added to the brilliant
medical achievements OF recent years
the discovery OF the value of anti
typhoid vaccination, has made known
another discovery Of great Importance
in connection with the treatment Of
smallpox. By this Improvement In
treatment the disease, 1t is announced,
becomes almost as harmless as chick
enpox.
The details Of the treatment are
made known In this letter. written by
la London physician to the editor of
American Medicine:
II am permitted by Sir Almroth q.
Wright to repeat some facts he gave
me In a recent conversation. He has
recently received information to the
effect that the injection of anti-strep-
tococcic and anti-staphylococcic a
cines In the early stages OF smallpox
pASfChbS thc talCA Puo AhACNtioAcf
which are the real causes Of death.
Indeed, the cases thus treated are so
mild, even In those who have not &C
quired the slightest immunity against
smallpox by Jennerian vaccine, that 1t
is scarcely recognized as smallpox.
Freed of its coincident pus infections,
Ii might almost be called as benign a
disease as chickenpox. so slight is the
suffering and so few are the deaths.
Opposition to Vaccination.
"He says that IL this means OF treat
ment had been known In Jenner's time
the opposition to vaccination on the
part OF the medical profession might
have prevented the adoption OF the
system Of immunizing by a modified
smallpox or vaccine. Smallpox might
now be considered a durable disease,
with 10 after effects and possible of
complete elimination Moreover, II an
infant Is first given a proper dose Of
the two vaccines, anti-streptococcic
and anti-staphylococcic, and then CIV
en- a Jennerian vaccination the latter
Is entirely free OF any signs of iniam-
nation and gives no discomfort, or at
least a negligible
FINALLY. II calves are first immuniz-
ed In this way against the staphylo-
coccus pyogenes aureus and the strep-
tococcus they do not develop any signs
OF Inflammation around the vaccinia
vesicles, which. I understand, will dry
up In the Serious stage and not go to
to the production Of pus. Such lymph
Is practically free of pus organisms.
Perhaps all these facts have been
reported In America, but In case they
have not l hasten to send the news In
order that the matter may be tried out
and. II proved correct, be put TO prac-
teal use at once.
Causes skin Reaction.
cit has long been known that vac
cine which has been heated Will cause
a skin reaction, but the experiments Of
Vons Pirquet and others now show that
a sterile Jennerian vaccine will cause
a skin reaction only In those already
lmmunlEed to vaccinia, and this reac-
ton may be mistaken for a successful
vaccination or take
TT has also been found that IL an
unprotected person is vaccinated every
day for eight days the several inocula-
tions are progressively more rapid In
developing and all mature at the same
time. The significance Of this phenom-
enon Is not quite clear unless Il indi-
Gates a negative phase during which
the system opposes less and less re-
sistance to the invading organism Of
vaccinia.
"As a side thought II was suggested
that when calves are first immunized
against pus, the vaccinia subsequently
given to them produces no discovera-
BILE suffering and so little inconven-
|lence that the nti-vivisection cranks
have positively nothing to complain
Of"