The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1914-10-20

l NOW 1T Is known and admitted by all
these supercilious sceptics that the lac
| tic acid bacilli, particularly the race
or strain of germs whose parents
originated in the bacterial Garden Of
Eden, the sour milk of Bulgaria, not
only devour the dangerous intestinal
bacteria Of man, but prevent dysentery
germs. cholera .nfantum microbes, diar-
rhoeal bacteria, colitis bacilli, and a
mics from living and doing harm in
mans intestines.
Some Dramatic Cures.
In other words, the science of BAG
teriolosy has made a cat's-paw out of
Bulgaria bacilh to pull human health
from many an Ubiquitous fire
A veritable Roman phalanx of iuyes-
tigators have found that these bacilIi
lactis bulgaricus-as they are technical
ly caiied-manufacture over 8 per cent
OF harmless, antiseptic acid which is
net only beneficial to human digestion.
but notably destructive to germs of ce-
cay, to the soaps and alkalis which in
1ure the alimentary canal, and TO most
disease producing parasites
DR.. Ralph Oakley Clock, of New York,
has recently reported large number of
vicious. usually fatal instances of chol-
era tnfantum, dysenteries, diarrhoeas
and other summer complaints in infants,
saved by feeding them Bulgaria bacilli,
dried and mixed with milk sugar in tab,
let form
Through Henry Hynson and the
johnson Hopkins Hospital the ancestors
Of these Bulgaria germs were obtained
from Prof. Metchnikoff at the Pasteur
institute. They are now available for
everybody. and SO are Dr. Clocks dra-
matte cures Of the most severe types
OF infantile intestinal complaints.
DR.. Clocks conclusions, which have
also been duplicated in my own little
colitfs in adults, should be treasured by
every mother
Methods of Treatment.
The infants varied in age from five
weeks to ten months; there was one five
weeks old; one six weeks old; one eight
weeks old: one two months of age; four
were three months old; three were four
months old; two were five months old:
seven months old; two were eight
months old. and there was one nine
months old, and one infant ten months
old.
There were two cases of enterocolitis,
and twenty cases of gastric-enteritis. of
the latter. five were of the mild form,
nine were Of the severe type, and six
were toxic.
The duration of the gastro-enteritis,
prior to the institution of the implanta-
! ton method of treatment, was from one
day to two weeks In the severe types.
and from one week to two weeks in the
toxic forms. The Intestinal condition
had persisted in the two cases of entero-
colitis from two to four weeks.
The two cases of enterocolitis had re-
sisted other methods of treatment, but
quickly responded to the implantation
method.
Decided improvement followed in every
case within twenty-four hours after be-
ginning treatment.
The results were complete and per-
manent in every case: there was not
single failure or relapse. Since the cul-
ture was mixed with milk-sugar, the
tablet quickly dissolved in water, ard
was readily taken by the babies.
One Of the great advantages of this
method of treatment is that it is unat-
tended with any untoward effect, twenty
tablets having been given in the twenty
four hours to infants Of five and six
weeks Of age.
The negative results previously OBJ
tanned with the various other dried Gull
lures were unquestionably due to the
small numbers of the true B. lactis bull
garicus present in the tablets, which
contained chiefly the paralactic bacill..
The results in the cases reported were
due solely to the action of the B. lactis