The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-04-08
NEW TUBERCULAR CURE
PREVENTIVE VACCINE VIRUS TO
BE TRIED IN THE UNITED
STATES NAVY.
THE SURGEONS APPROVE IT
Has Been Given Tests With Great
Success Among the Children of
North Carolina Orphanage. May
Prove a Great Blessing.


North Carolina Orphanage. May
Prove Great Blessing.
WASHINGTON.-One of the most
significant steps taken by the gov
eminent recently was the request
of Secretary of the Navy Daniels to
Surgeon General Charles F. Stokes of
his department to look into the sub
ject of preventive vaccination against
tuberculosis as presented by DR.. Karl
Won Ruck of Asheville, N. c., with a
view to vaccinating the officers and
men of the United States navy
DIR. Stokes has found vaccination
for typhoid fever to be great sue
cess. He will investigate DR.. Won
Ruck's method and if it proves as
meritorious as it's friends claim that
it is will apply it to his fighting
men.
DR.. Won Ruck was in Washington
last week and conferred with Sec
rotary Daniels and DR.. Stokes. He
offered to throw open his laboratories
and make public any information in
his possession free of charge.
Surgeons Approve 1t.
Although government experts will
not say so for publication they think
that DR.. Won Ruck comes nearer hav-
ing what will prove boon to white
plague sufferers than Dr.. Friedman
has.
DR.. Rupert Blue, surgeon general
of the United States public health
service, will also test the Won Ruck
remedy.
DR.. c. A. Julian, a tuberculosis eX-
pert, has tried the Won Ruck method
on several hundred children at Thorn
asville, N. C.
after becoming acquainted with
Dr.. Won Ruck's investigations says
DR.. Julian, and having become con
WINGED of the safety of the method
| arranged with DR.. Won Ruck for its
application in a series of children at
the Baptist orphanage of Thomas
Vile Two hundred and sixty-two
children were vaccinated between
Oct. / and Oct Is, 1911, under my
personal observation.
Satisfactory Results.
THE results observed appeared so
satisfactory that l since that time
undertook the vaccination of another
series of 131 children, for which DR..
Won Ruck was kind enough to supply
the vaccine and also to make the
biological tests of the blood speci-
mems.
THE vaccine is product obtained
from tubercle bacilli, but does not
contain them in either dead or living
form, but it represents the several
constituents of the tubercle bacillus
in such proportions as were found
necessary in preliminary studies OF
their chemistry and in animal expert
ments to produce the highest attain
able degree of immunity.
General results witnessed in the
.339 children vaccinated were first
manifest in the appearance especially
by a better color and Improvement
in the condition of the skin.
Children Grew Brighter.
with better appetite and assimi-
Iation there occurred a corresponding
increase in weight, the children grew
brighter. more active and interested
and have shown an appearance CT
growth and of development in all re-
spects that attracted the attention OF
all who frequently came in contact
with them, and / do not think 1t
coincidence that the general health
condition at the childrens orphanage
has since then strikingly changed for
the better, as we have had less indis-
position and sickness in the vaccinat-
ed children during the past year than
ever before.
"A comparison of weight averages
gives the interesting result that after
a period OF fourteen months the tu-
berculosis and probably the non-tu-
berculous have increased twice as
much in per cent of body weight as
did the normal children and that the
increase of the former after only
three months is indeed nearly four
times as great"
DR.. Won Ruck believes that the use
of his remedy will prove a great
blessing. 1t may help to save about
10000 lives a year.