Bisbee daily review., 1915-06-13
WAR DEPLETES DRUG
 SUPPLY OF EUROPE
America Has Opportunity to Be- come Drug and Chemical
 Market of World.

BERLIN-The war affords America . an opportunity Co become the drug and chemical center of the world in . place of London and Amsterdam, if America but knows enough Co grasp the advantage in the opinion of pr. . c. D. Venderkleed, chief chemist of a . big Philadelphia manufacturing and . biological chemical concern, who has been touring Europe for several ! months.
 This possible leadership can come, !. however, only in case American chem i ists develop the ability to make sym theHc chemicals as Germany already has done out of the raw and crude materials that come largely from South America and Central America, ! and that now because of danger to shipping are being sent in huge quantities to New York instead Of Amsterdam and England
 Once America achieves some of the highly specialized German ability a. long this line, he believes, she will be able to compete for all time with the rest of the world. and attract to her self the lions share of the raw ma terials so close at hand
 Dr. Vanderkleed's travels through Germany, Austria, Holland and Den mark have shown him that there is a scarcity of serums in practically all Of the countries at war. as we'll as a scarcity of some opiates. There is consequently market for every ounce that can be made in America and shipped over
 Practically every laboratory in Flu rope. he finds, is manufacturing to the limit Of its capacity serums for te- tanus. dysentery and special menin- gitis, three of the great war scourages. Each country, however. is hampered by two things-the length of time that . it is necessary to produce serums or the requisite strength, and a universal shortage of the high grade horses used in the manufacture of the medicines. l 4 comparatively small quantity of . tetauus serum. when injected very soon after a soldier has been wound ed in such a way that the dreaded loCkpaw is liable to set in will save him says Dr. Vanderkleed But in case there is delay in the injection something that frequently happens be- cause of the exigencies Of warfare-it takes an infinitely greater amount of the medicine Co offset tho disease. And under the present circumstances and shortage, he believes, no country has a sufficient quantity on hand to be able 10 dose its patients with the necessary libarality when there has been great delay
 In contrast to the shortage of ser ums Dr. Vanderkleed duds that all the nations seem to be fairly we'll sup piled with the necessary vaccines- which can be and are being prepared in great quantities. and ir a compar- atively short time.
 The time difference between making the serums and the 1lccinCs is due to . the essential difference in the charqc- teristics of the two medicines. The vaccine IS but a quantity ot rLo dead bacteria of a given disease which. when injected into the bloc causes no harm but does stimulate the growth of live auti-bOdies that ward of the disease fl it comes The serum. on the other hand, takes .-8m r'-ee to siS months in preparation, and con sists Of a quantity of live anti-bodies that have been painstsk'nglv brought up to a standard strength They are created by innoculating sound and healthy horses with increasingly large doses of bacteria of a given disease. The animal. less subject than any other to the disease, gradually and in- | creasingly generates a powerful an. ti-toxin and when in the proper state of health will eventually yield from three to four quarts of the serum. Germany and Austria Dr. Wander Heed finds manufacture great quan- tties Of typhoid vaccine, and have on hand plenty of vaccine for cholera, plague and other diseases to which the soldiers may be liahle Following the example of the United States, these countries have during the war introduced compulsory vaccination a. gainst typhoid in their armies.
 With the single possible exception of cocaine, Germany at least possess es all the opiates she needs. There are quantities of chloroform. ether, morphine and opium on hand The CO., caine is coming in from New York, which gets it in turn from South Amer iCa
 To some extent also there is a mark et here. Dr. Vanderkieed believes, for chemicals out of which can be made materials for combating the insect pest that is such a factor in the east.