Fighting the White Plague.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7950, 13 October 1905, Page 4

Fighting the White Plague.

!•* V , k>"ill d''lll'>i ist !'a 'el 1 'hi' \v<-r "i' hi> i,.v" ' 111 .> 'f'i 11 ill ?o pro- ■ 1 <i• -• - :ii !li>- guinea immunity i _aiu-l ; u'(..'i'vu!<;M>. t ■ •-.earth has h if oi li-'.iliiiL: litis i!i.»e;is •. l'n»- . ssi-r P.. iuinii's "curat iw principle. ~1 i<j .it a ivtvn: < able. is no (•,ill,l ill.- ivsult of i-'se,o<h along \\.-<r lilies ; iol . I ItoU-Jl t lie Wev-agV s not part irulaHv lurid, it is <•*"]- jji lit that the '\jtei ieiu< '.-ainni by ill ;iuJn 1 inl; rattle vitll injection*. of K.k hj". t ui.erriilii. lias k-d to the discovers. This immunisation is l.as'd II I lie re>islii|M power ol 1 Sss'le-'. lis In ha< t' l'U\l diseases. Uiseiis<r< dure 1111ijntheir" normal \i'al processes ri'rtiHM poisons or lox'j|;.>s( t o\iliS. and Hot the •Terms themselves are (he cans, l >1 disease an.l death. No sooner <lor itiev »ain access lit tit" body than tli'-y si t up ivil'ibtt-r sisli'vi- pi'«.''esnormal lymphatic cells become —or pha£oc>le* aml anti-toxins, or ant oilot es to thv I u\ins. are devel o|*i . which rircii|;lll• jn the blood. (lenerallx speak ing. if recovery lakes place, the pliaufor\les' have been able to overcome ihe uerius. the anti-toxins have 1,.-en strong enough lo neutralise the I o\Ir,. aid immuni l y remains. Kuril's original tulrercnlin was an alkaline solui it n containing tin- 5 rtlurated liarilli of tubercles anil their (oxins, attd this was injected under Ihe skin u\ suOeivrs li'vuti phthisis. 'I his treatin ; ; t, lii'ter the hoji#s vi" Ihe vvorfn :i rais. d to a ki-jh |vtch. I.eriirne «iis ( -r, dit- d. Iw+iinse of its severity awl danger, ami a modified tuberculin taken place. aisd has i' 'ei) ns-'d in :'i iiei'nl and i inar> practice.—X.Z. Times.-