A NEW NATURE CURE.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8912, 4 September 1907, Page 4

A NEW NATURE CURE.

Professor J. Sims Wood ho ad, of Cambridge, delivered an address on “Anti-bodies” at the Congress of the Royal Institute of Public Health at Douglas. He explained that antibodies were the substances formed by the bane of a toxin at the point where the poison was introduced. Every poison produced its own antibodies ; iu'fact, it was due to these anti-bodies" that there was ever any recovery from disease at all. If they could find how to produce the important curative anti-bodies—-and there seemed every possibility that in time this could be doneunder sufficiently favourable conditions that they might be transfered from one patient to another, then they might arrive at a period when ordinary drugs would scarcely ever be utilised at all except for the alleviation of symptoms, while the real work of curing would, as at present, be carried on by Nature, which would be so much under control that diseases that were now thought to be unnroveutable and incurable would bo prevented and cured Dr! Barras, Govan, said in Govan their experience had not been that sanitary conditions had much to do with spotted fever. In fact, the incidence of the disease seemed to suggest that insanitary conditions constituted a protection. (Laughter). He concurred in the view that it was not infectious. In the veterinary hygiene and comparative pathology section Mr J. B. Wolstenholme, Manchester, said it was a notorious fact that animals about to die of anthrax were killed, dressed and sent to the town for food.