The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-25
Science His Mastered the Disease
Which Soon Will Not Be Known
Even in Tropical
Lands.
VACCINATION DOES IT
When Every City and Town Adopts
Free Clinic the Dread Sickness
Will be Thing of
the Past.

IBy William Philip Simms, Paris cor
respondent of the United Press.l
PARIS, May 24.-Typhoid fever has
at last been mastered by science and
within a few years the dreaded dis
ease will probably no longer be known,
even in tropical lands.
DIR. Henri Vincent, member OF the
French Academy of Sciences, and
head physician of the Val de Grace
hospital here, has announced in sub
stance that hereafter he who dies of
typhoid, does so because of his own.
or some one elses carelessness for
the new EXPERIMENTATION has been
proved absolutely safe and effective.
Medical men here proclaim the
conquest one of the most beneficial to
humanity accomplished in modern
times
The process of rendering mankind
immune from attacks of typhoid is
new only as an accomplished fact.
he actual discovery dates back a
number of years, experiments to prove
its worth beginning some four years
ago. And it is upon the results of
these years of actual practice that DR..
Vincent bases his report to the Acad-
! envy of Medicine.
From now on. declared the bac-
teriologist, typhoid takes its place
that, the malady may even be COM
.lletelv wiped out.
For fourteen months / nave been
exceedingly busy yaccinating patients
at the hospital. / inoculated $4,000
persons in that time. ! even vaccin-
ated individuals actually i'll of typhoid
These last had extremely light at
tacks and were attending to their or
binary duties in a very short time.
The others are completely immune.
At Avignon, in 1912, there was an
epidemic of typhoid. There were Il
500 cases and sixty-four deaths. Iiv-
ing in the city were 1886 people who
had been vaccinated and not a single
one of these was stricken. Among the
CT soldiers who had not been vac
cinated, there were 152 cases OF
typhoid and twenty-five deaths
One may submit to this vaccina-
ton without hesitation and rely abb
soIutely upon the new prophylaxis.
The treatment must be rendered COM
mon so the world may benefit from it..
In France alone, during the years
1906 to 1910, over 22,400 people diea
of typhoid The vaccination of
French soldiers has been official since
1911. at which time fever seized
seventy-fiYe out of ever 1000 serving
in Morocco. Since then, not one sol
der. inoculated with the new virus,
has been stricken
We are daily rendering immune
scores OF people at Val de Grace. We
have at the hospital alone applica-
tions from 10000 others who wish
to submit to the vaccination.
What should be done, however, is
this: Every city and town should es-
tablish a sort of free clinic and there
vaccinate all corners without charge.
The professional standing of DR..
Vincent leaves no room for doubt
T. Ills ISpblt W LIE fAtdhSlhN III AICul
cine here created stir and physic
ians generally appear to conside,
typhoid as vanquished For the bac
teriologists experiments we're not
confined to guinea-pigs and rabbits
hut, tested by scores of thousands o.
men, women and children, there has
not been a single failure OF tbs
virus recorded.
France is to have a bureau Of avta
ton, attached to the Office of th'
minister of war. and all things per
tanning to military airships, arm!
balloons, aeropIanes. etc, will be un
der the centralised control of the new
department,
In the past the army engineers hat
charge of the fourth ARM as the al
division is called, which fact resulted
in no little confusion, since the en-
gineers already had their hands full
OF their own troubles. In the event o
war the air fleet would have beef
badly handicapped, but the feeling
now is that in case of trouble Franc
will be amply able to take care 0
herself in the clouds.
President RAYMOND Poincare viii
leave Paris June "a for London where
for three DAYS, he will be the guest o
King George v. The French press at
taches considerable Importance t
this visit in view of the genera
tension new existing between TIL
countries of Europe
Furthermore President Poincar
will set aside all precedent might
thing to do in ancient Europe-ii
making this visit. King George ha
not visited France since his corona
tion and, until he does, no official visi