NOVELTY IN MEDICAL SCIENCE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10041, 11 May 1910, Page 4

NOVELTY IN MEDICAL SCIENCE.

Professor Metehnikoff, of the Pasteur Institute,.has been able to produce typhoid fever in a chimpanzee, which, it appears, is quite a novelty in medical science. There have been numerous attempts in the past to transmit the terrible fever to animals for experimental purposes, but without success. The injection of the bacilli did, indeed, produce a fatal mnlady in the unfortunate beasts, but it was not the real typhoid that was observed in them. Professor Metehnikoff read a paper before the Academy of Medicine, in which he gave an account of his experiments, which were carried out with the assistance of Dr, Besredka, chief of the laboratory at the Pasteur Institute. Live bacilli were injected into a chimpanzee, and on the seventh day the animal presented the characteristic symptoms of typhoid fever, with a temperature of, 104 degrees. Two days later the temperature fell nine degrees,and on the thirteenth day the monkey succumbed, owing to a complication that supervened. The examination of the intestines showed the presence of real typhoid bacilli, exactly the same as those in human beings., Further experiments will now be made to try to discover a cure, either by means of antitoxin or anti-bacterian serums. Beading of these experiments makes one a trifle grateful not to be a chimpanzee and unable to enter a yea or nea with regard to practising such matter on one's unfortunate self.