Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-11-11
Fight Pneumonia
With V accination
by Frederic j. Haskin

| hotlgands of American HDldief8 mn n war
workers are now receiving injections OF the
| new pneumonia vaccine recently developed
by the Army Medical School While the
vaccine must pass the test Of the winter
months when pneumonia Is prevalent
| throughout the entire country before II
can he called success, tests already mBde
| have proved very encouraging
| Among 10 600 soldiers injected with the
| pneumonia vaccine at Camp pton, not
one case ri pneumonia has occurred
| This, and other equally satisfactory cx-
pcrInents, have filled he medical
world with the hope that means Of con
trolling at least certain types of pneumonia
germs has at last been found
/ The development Of this vaccine bY tho
| Army Medical School was primarily for
tho army, but the civilian population has
quickly adopted it After meeting with
persistent opposition TO vaccination for
| smallpox and typhoid fever for ve3rs.f
| the medical profession everywhere noW
| almost embarrassed by the pupuiir dc
| mand Tor vaccination against pneumonia
| 4 long line of War workers Is constantly
pouring into the vaccination headquarters
| hurredly es tabIished iv The Arny Medical
School, and IN all the large rItles throughout
the country that have recently suffered
from The pnucmonla epidemic. thc
civilian demand for the neH pneumonia
vaccine Is placing = great -ir.in ll,on oar
medical Laboratories
LowER ANIMALS IHutNE.
There are ccrtain human disease which
cannot be transmitted 70 the lower animals
Spanish influenza Is ono of these and
typhoid fever Is another It y possible
- kill mouse or . guinea pig bv injecting
If with dose Of influenza or typhoid
bacili, but il is impossible to givo II IN
fluenza or typhoid fever One scientist
claims that he has been able 70 give
monkeys influenza. but this Is not vet
fact accepted by the rest IF tho medical
world Hence the only recourse IS ~ test
the success Ut new experiments upon human
beings, and rs the average human bong
is reluctant to become the victim of such
n test. tho laboratory man usually rirs
each new hypothesis ont upon him olf
In developing vaccine for military usc.
tho Army Nedlrnl School first faced the
problem Of injection Il was necessary to
reduce the number ot injections - the
lowest possible minimum For many Years
the typhoid vaccine Was gwen ~ thrro
injections covering - period of four months
Now II u man had ~ be injected with
pneumonia vaccine three times covering
fhc same period and then perhaps m
Iccted with three doses ~ vaccine against
dvseutcrv or cholera II was 0pparent
fhat nearly hl- entire first yoar IN tbo arms
would be devoted to taking and recovering
from the various vaccine treatment
nr4rrlorFp w.NurAt rcRE.
50 FOR awhile no attempt ,rae madc -
develop or manufacture FIR military l-r
anything but tho smallpox and typhoid
VaccineS Then came he discovery of
lipovaccine= hv he French which grcatlg
zlmpIlhed the problem In tho llpovuccinr
the French prepared the entire typhoid
and paratyphold dose of seven and q half
billion organisms nj IN oil solution and
gave Il n one injection Before this salt
solution had bcen used which, gwen N one
dose had produced too sharp reaction
upon the patient.
The development III lipovaccines was
immediately taken Up bv the army medical
school and be injections NJ twp var-
cine IN the army cut to one do- hr -uc-
cess of ms nehtod opened ~ ac Jnssi-
bllity and developing and injecting sarrinc
for many other ailments, chief of which was
pneumonia
For many years work on i pneumonia
vaccine has been handicapped bv the
fac. that there arc d Wide variety 81 germs
which cause pneumonia There ire three
types Of pneumonia caused bv three
different types of germ. but here Is also
4 fourth type winch is caused 1y d number
OF germs. All oi which IRE unlike The |
best hat h. medical world has been abic
20 do i To develop a successful serum for
the cure Of What is known ~ Type One
,,ecINE foe rlu roo.
urthcrnorc the Armr Medical school /
has been prevailed upon to give another /
evidence ot is power bN Inventng i |
vaccine against influenza | selesS Tor THIS |
institution 20 protest that influenza was an /
entirely different matter that vcrv little /
was Vet known concerning the influenza /
germ because u J. too small to b. seen |
through the most pow WerftIi microscopy, I
and cannot be tested upon animals either
The public refused to be convinced thar
If = vaccine could be developed against /
pneumonia ono could not also be developed I
against ntiuenza In answer TO thus ~tuo- /
born demand. therefore the Army Medical +
) hool has conCocted . new influenza |
vaccine, only a few weeks old which Is now I
beng sent out bl the gallons. Il Is adj 4
united that It IS entirely IN experiment. +
Ii ruay produce the desired immunity. /
and It may not; but whatever II does II /
cannot hurt the patlenI
\ vaccine to provide immunity ~ Hist /
pneumonia Is a problem oi much longer
standing The Army Medical School tr,l
began working on il over a wear ago Ioug
before the recent Influenza and pneumonia
epidemic started Tins institution is Of
course. peculiarly fitted for experiment
and research in the matter oi vaccIne>
because It manufactures all of the typhoid
and paratyphod yaccinc9 used III the
army and navy
Il has al the bcs' equipment Tor
>laughterin2 billions Of germs and pre-
pairing them in vaccine form The head
lis vaccine laboratory Colonel Whltmore,
IS an extremely able scientist and he :
fortunate in having associated with hIm
men who are willing TO give even their
lives to advance their science. While none
has vet beeu called upon to take this
sacrifice. all ave contributed IN taking
somewhat desperate chances, for they have
been the first to satnd the test Of new
experiments.
4 few years ago. however, an English
man named T ) Lister vaccinatcd some
-, II