Arizona state miner., 1925-03-07
Specialist Says Method of
Eradicating Disease Will
Be Found.


tiOn will see tuberculosis cured by the
ordinary physician as a result of re-
searches now being conducted in many
of the large laboratories of the med
ical schools and universities of the
country, according to a prediction
made by DR.. William Charles White,
consultant in tuberculosis to the
United States public health service
and chairman of the National Tuber-
culosiS associations committee on
medica. research.
In this task of determining the
cause and effect of tubercle bacillus
and methods by which it may be Grad
lcated, Doctor Whites committee has
enlisted the most skilled scientists,
chemists and anatomists of the coun-
try, who are devoting their time to
pursuing these researches in the hope
OF eventually mastering the white
plague
II have no doubt that the work we
are carrying on in this field" Doctor
White said, "to get a better under
standing Of the history Of this bacillus
In the body will see in our generation
physicians able to cure by their own
efforts, rather than by trusting to ma
ture and the slow and uncertain rem
edy of to.lay.
Il would be foolhardy," Doctor
White added, "to predict the nature of
the cure in man. l feel sure, how
ever, it will not be by vaccination. 1t
will more likely be by something that
1nterferes with the relation existing
between the bacillus and it's host, the
epfthelioid cell or lung cell, and the
collection of these which form the
tubercle.
Remedy for Cattle.
In cattle | believe the process will
Oe by vaccination and by pasteuriza-
ton of food products and not by the
fearfully wasteful method of con-
demnat1on and destruction of the
present time"
In addition to these researches in
medical laboratories, the government
now is engaged In some extensive
tests of the Danish sanocrysin tuber-
culOsis cure, a combination of gold
salts and serum prepared by DR.. Hol-
gar Mollgaard, professor of physiology
of the Agriculture college of Copen.
hagen. These tests are now in nrog-
ress on selected calves, undergoing the
treatment at the Department of Agri-
culture experiment station at Bethes-
da, Md; at the laboratory of the New
York state health department at Otis
vile, N. Y, and at the Rockefeller
Laboratory for Research in Diseases
of Animals at Princeton, N. J. On the
success of these tests will depend
whether the public health service will
issue a permit to an American firm
to sell and distribute the serum In
this country.
The greatest reliance on obtaining
an absolute cure for tuberculosis is
placed by government scientists and
medical experts in the laboratory re-
searches that are now in progress.
Doctor White pointed out that the
last 20 years of tuberculosis work
have been devoted to education and
prevention propaganda, and the ma
tion has neglected the effort of en-
deavoring to find out more of the dis
ease itself. Medical science he said,
now is focused on the task of deter
mining the relation of the tubercle
bacillus to the body and means by
which it may be successfully eradi-
Gated.
Associated with Doctor White on
the National tuberculosis association
research committee are DR.. Allan
Krause, associate professor Of medi-
cine of Johns Hopkins university, Bal