The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-04-25

| Accordingly. the leucocytes and the
opsonins cannot get at them or they
| may reach them In such weakened
force that they cannot rout out OF ar
rest the enemy. In q fashion. this 10
just what happens In the case Of pull
monary tuberculosis. for then the ba-
GILL destroy the lung substance and
also impede the flow Of vitallz!ng blood
while the poison spreads Itself per-
sistently.
Indeed. this problem Of the white
| plague Is the one that probably con-
Germs the greatest number OF people
If We omit that blood faint which Is
responsible for so much human mis-
: cry. Now tuberculosis Is OF two sorts,
that which affects the entire system
and that which inan.fests itself in
/ localized areas. OF the latter that
| localized on the skin or at joints
commonly known as "surgical"--is
easier to reach and cure when some
what advanced than IL tuberculosis
/ of the lungs at a similar stage.
incubation has materially helped
and even cured these sO-Callcd surgical
cases, because rest combined with
!
cure, but Il Is an exceedingly difficult
matter to give one of our lungs a rest
because OF the vital part each OF them
plays IN sustaining animation. How
ever, way has iate.y been devised by
which an affected lung can be de-
| f'ated. and in that state, while the
other one bears a double burden, cura-
| tive agencies can be marshalied into
service. But the results are not vet
| conclusive. nor IL II possible to pre-
dict cure. and this ~ IN part due 10
the very nature of tuberculosis
Because the disease has a footho,d
In the body the tuberculin Of the living
| germs OF the disease itself at freduent
| intervals reinoculates the patient--it Is
| not subject to the wise adninistra-
| ton of the physician. Instead Of In
| oCulating the sufferer when his opson,c
index is high the tuberculin may Just
as frequently do 80 when a previous
! INSTRUMENTATION has run his resist
ance down to the lowest ehb. What
follows? The already impaired re-
sistance IL further weakened by this
second infusion.
This Is generally what follows when
a tubercuar subject fatigues himself
by unwtse eXertion, Now, the wisdom
OF the rest cure may be seen, as well
as the part which successive properly
| timed inoCulations play In this modern
method Of battling with disease. In
! all justice TO DR.. friedman let II be
said that he urged the importance OF
! successive NEGOTIATIONS and that these.
inasmuch as he used a living germ,
should he administered only by men
! especially trained. and that the tuber-
culn should he absolutely clean and
! fresh. What Sir AlmrOth Wright has
made possible could not be achieved
! II the treatment were left to the
ordinary physician: doctors fiocked to
/ London from all over the world and
! went through a rigorous training be-
| fore they were qualified to apply the
| fruits of his exhaustive experiments.
| But right here word of caution
anent animal experiments as n substi-
| tute for similar researches with human
/ subjects. AS Is commonly known, the
/ British Government has been for sew
eral years gravely disturbed by the
/ prevalence of pneumonia among the
native laborcrs on the Rand Sir
Almroth has devoted great deal of
time to a study of the conditions and
In the development of treatment
which would serve to immunizc the
blacks.
Along line different from the moe
ulation recommended by Sir Almroth,
Prof, Morgonroth used chemical
preparation which promised, in the
| laboratory. very satisfactory results,
| This drug exercised "A wonderful ef-
feet on pneumacocci when attacked
| In test tubes, and completely cured
mice infected with the disease, but
1t did not cure human paticnts-on
the contrary, blindness resulted in
several cases because OF the treat
| ment.
This apparent paradox Is explained
by Sir Almroth "by the fact that in
man pneumonia is attended by con-
solidation Of the air spaces Of the