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If, in his experimental animals, he carefully sought for the cut end of the nerve-trunk in the wound that had been infected, and injected the antitoxin directly into that, the disease was stopped. Or it might even be "headed off" by the crude method of cutting directly across the nerve-trunk at a point above that yet reached by the infection.
In some cases the reaction is so prompt and so vigorous that the antitoxin is produced almost without any discomfort, or disturbance, and the patient scarcely knows anything about it. In others there will be a slight degree of feverishness, with perhaps a little headache, and a few days, or hours, of discomfort.
E. then refers to certain passages in my article in the October-December, 1912, number of "Life and Action," and comments upon them by quoting Drs. Osler and Andrews in favor of the antitoxin treatment in diphtheria and by giving his own opinion on the subject. He concludes his arguments as follows: "I am a subscriber to this magazine and have also had my sister's name put on the mailing list.
In the serum and antitoxin treatment, therefore, the allopathic school is imitating Nature's procedure in checking the growth of microorganisms, but with this difference: Nature does not suppress the growth and multiplication of disease germs until the morbid matter on which they subsist has been decomposed and consumed, and until the inflammatory processes have run their course through the five stages of inflammation; while serums and antitoxins given in powerful doses at the different stages of any disease may check and suppress germ activity and the processes of inflammation before the latter have run their natural course and before the morbid matter has been eliminated.
What the medicine may be is of little importance; a glass of water will cure as well as anything else, is a frequent saying, if it is the will of God. "She, the missionary nurse, thereupon took up her station in the sick room, kept out the numerous callers, administered antitoxin, and nursed the child back to life. She had saved the child.
But intelligent persistence in the careful elaboration of these methods of nature has resulted in already cutting the death-rate in two, from fifteen or twenty per cent to less than ten per cent, and where the full rigor of the tub bath is carried out it has been brought down to as low as five per cent. Meanwhile the bacteriologists are steadily at work on a vaccine or antitoxin.
That night, however, on arriving at my surgery, I found a splendid supply of antitoxin, labelled 'for Mainstairs, without another word. I have reason to think Faversham had been in Carlisle himself that day to get it; he must have cleared out the place. "Next day I saw him in the village.
And before night had fallen the process of disinfecting the bedding, clothing, bunk-house, and cookery was well under way, while all who had been in immediate contact with the infected men had been treated by the doctor with antitoxin as a precautionary measure.
This we now do in every possible way, by careful feeding, by rest, by bathing, by an abundance of pure water and fresh air, with the gratifying result that we have already reduced the death-rate in most fevers, even such as we have no antitoxin against, or may not even have discovered the causal germ of, to one-half and even three-fourths of their former fatality.
Indeed, it utilizes part of their products in the formation of the antitoxin; but it domesticates them, as it were turns them from dangerous enemies into harmless guests.
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