The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-04-02
u. S. Standard Products
Co. Gets Federal o. X.
for New Serum.
ONLY ONE TO MAKE IT
Award to Local Company Is
Recognition of Valuable Re-
search Work Carried On.

Because of it's pioneering in re-
search work and as a recognition of
its leadership in the development of
biologicals for the treatment of dis
ease, the United States Standard Prod
ucts company, of Woodwork, has been
cited by federal health authorities and
has been given the first contract to
manufacture the newly discovered an
ti-toxin for scarlet fever in its labor
atories in Kenoshe county.
The announcement of the sanction
of the national hygienic laboratories
at Washington, operated by the gov
ernment's. health bureau, was made
known today after considerable in
vestigation had been authorized to
find that company in the entire coun-
try which would be most deserving of
the honor of being the first to pro-
duce serum that is hailed as rank
ing among the few great discoveries
in the medical sciences in recent years.
Has Interesting History.
The anti-toxin for scarlet fever has
an exceedingly interesting history
Heretofore the medical profession was
at loss as to how to treat symptoms
of scarlet fever except through the or
binary methods used in treating other
communicable diseases. It was usual
ly matter Of simply seeing it over.
There have been many serums advanc-
ed to cure the disease and claimed to
be able to immunize, but in the past
most of these have fallen short of
their claims and nothing adequate has
as yet been produced until the Drs.
George and Gladys Dick, of the John
Mccormick Institute for Infectious
Diseases perfected their anti-toxin.
The history of this discovery is also
an interesting one. For twelve years
these two doctors in Chicago have
been working on clue which they
hoped would reach them to discover
the causative agent in scarlet fever.
Two years ago they made their dis
covery that the cause of scarlet fever
was due to an organism called the
hemolytic streptococcus. With the
cause known, it was a less difficult
matter to find some means of treat
ment for a patient which would tend
to combat the scarlet fever organism
Here a true anti-toxin was prepared
by injecting soluble toxins into the
blood of horses. And now this anti
toxin has been made available for
commercial use through the awarding
of the license to manufacture to the
U. S. Standard Products company.
Through their close associations
with the Drs. Dick and Dick in Chi
cago the company has been placed in
a particularly favorable position and
the matter of manufacturing the anti
toxin, it is believed, was given to the
Kenosha county company also as a
recognition of this service to the dis
coverers.
Kenoshans Were Pioneers.
The Kenosha county laboratories
have established an enviable reputa-
ton in the United States for their
researches in biologicals. The work
here has been under the direction OF
DIR. William J. Hixon, one of the ma
tons pioneers in the scholarly work
of treating contagious disease Be-
cause of the learned staff of doctors
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company here has been asked to take
on much of the nations production
of serums and aati-toxins. The award
ing of the present contract comes as
an added recognition of the merit of
the laboratories.
The new anti-toxin is specifically
designed to immunize and protect pa
tients who have been exposed to scar
let fever. and it will cure the disease
in the patient in its early stages. The
discovery of this new curative agent
is proving to be one of the most strik-
ing advances in the control of COM
municable disease. and it will take
rank with the insulin discovery for
diabetes, the discovery of diphtheria
anti-toxin and toxin-anti-toxin, small
pox vaccination, typhoid vaccine, Pas
tours treatment for rabies, and SIM
liar advances in medicine.
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