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WHITE PLAGUE CURE ASSURED -- Specialist Says Method of , Eradicating Disease Will Be Found. Washington.—The present geneva j tlon 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 j and chairman of the National Tuber culosis association’s committee on medical research. In this task of determining the cause and effect of tubercle haclllus and methods by which It may be erad icated, Doctor White's 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. “I 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 na- i tore and the slow and uncertain rem edy of today. “I would be foolhardy," Doctor i White added, “to predict the nature of the cure In man. I feel sure, how- ; ever, It will not be by vaccination. It ; will more likely he by something that • interferes with the relation existing between the bacillus and Its host, the i epithelioid cell or lung cell, and the ] collection of these which form the tubercle. Remedy for Cattle. "In cattle I believe the process will he by vaccination and by pasteuriza tion of food products and not by the fearfully wasteful method of con demnation 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 sanocrvsin tuber culosis cure, a combination of gold salts and serum prepared hy Dr. Hol gar Mollgaard, professor of physiology of the Agriculture college of Copen hagen. These tests are now In prog 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 Otls vllle, 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 sail 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 na 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 haclllus to the body and means by which It may be successfully eradi cated. 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 timore ; Dr. Paul A. Lewis of the Rockefeller Institute at Princeton, and Dr. Charles J. Hatfield, director of Phipps Institute for Tuberculosis at fhe University of Pennsylvania. “Tuberculosis." Doctor White said, "probably Is the most difficult prob lem In modern medicine. While we know more of the tubercle barillas than of any other dlaease germ, we know little of Its parasitism, that la, of Its Intimate symbiotic existence within the cells of the lungs, where most of its life history Is pursued. ‘‘.Specific cures for disease, as we know them today, have come to us mainly along two channels; first, by revelation, often In the most unex pected places, and secondly, by the steady progress of the human mind In the laboratory. To the natives of Peru came first the knowledge of the curative value of cinchona hark, from which we obtain our quinine in the cure of malaria. Similarly to the na tives of Brazil came first the knowl edge that Ipecac, from which we get j our emetine, would cure dysentery, I From the laboratory source we have! sulvarsan. diphtheria antitoxin. In-; sulln, carbon tetrachloride and many j others, and all are purified by means ! of special action of other substances.” 8cope of Research Work. Describing the scope of the research work now In progress Doctor Whits said > “First for the chemical analysis of the tubercle haclllus and Its products we have enlisted the great commercial laboratories of Parke, Davis A Co. and Mulford & Co., with the best chem ! lsts of tbe universities of Yale and Chicago. "For the study of the reason for the curious position of tuberculosis la the body, la the tops of human lungs and :he lowar parts of cattle lungs, the anatomical department of the Univer The name of Mias Helen Redd wan unfortunately omitted last week from the list of guests at the Junior C. C. banquet. Mty of Wisconsin at Madison la en gngo.1. "To ascertain the relation of cattle tuberculosis to human tuberculosis studies are helng made In the Phipps Institute of the University of Penn aylvanla. "For the determination of X-ray normals the experts In the Johns Hop kins, Cincinnati and Pennsylvania universities are contributing their help. "The tubercle bacillus," Doctor White explained, “grows at the ex pense of the human or animal body, but In a particular cell of that body. This cell, for 40 years, has been called the eplthelold. As the bacilli multi ply, cells of this type multiply about them and form the tubercles, or nodes, found In affected lungs. “It Is only within a year that we have known something at the origin of this cell and only within a few months that we have known how to Increase or lower Its number In the body. This knowledge has come by the brilliant work of two anatomists In Johns Hopkins university—Doctors Sabin and Cunningham. They have, during the last year, devoted all their vast knowledge of the human body to the study of the tubercle bacillus In relation to this cell. The means of modifying the cell has come from a study of three other diseases: malta fever, a disease primarily of goafs hut to which man Is susceptible and caused by the bacillus mllltensls; In fectious abortion of cattle, and kala azaar. a disease of man and rodents in the Hast. Each one of these dis eases gives a different reaction in the body on the part of the cells con cerned In tuberculosis. Story Told by Scars. “Even more surprising Is the new research on the scar tissue hy which nature cures tuberculosis. Here again Is an amazing story. A biologist, per haps the most wonderful In America, Prof. Hoss Harrison of Yale, discov ered the method of growing hits of embryo tissue in the test tube, which has been so fruitful in our under standing of life and death. For years he has been studying transplanting of legs, eyes and other organs of the salamander, but, as a part of his study, he found that cells in the body to move in any direction must have a support firmer than themselves, as a grapevine must have a trellis. To prove this he let spiders spin webs of finest silk within glass rings. In these he planted his tissue and the cells grew out only along the fibrils of the web. The fibrils of scar tissue have to do as well with the movements and collection of cells of a tubercle, and now Professor Harrison and one of his eo-workers. Doctors Baltsell, are turning their endeavors to a study of The tubercle." Further research Info the epithelioid cell In the test tube. Doctor White said, may soon he undertaken by Doc tor and Mrs. Lewis of the f'arnegte Institution, at Johns Hopkins univer sity. where their wonderfully delicate methods of study In the laboratory have been so successful.—Emmet Dougherty In the New York Herald Tribune. Measures Prosperity by the Use of Sugar Columhus, Ohio. — Sugar Is th* world’s yardstick of prosperity, ac cording to R. F. Taber, an Ohio State university economist. “Sugar, as much as any one prod uct. tells how prosperous the leading nations of the world are." says Taher. "With sugar as thp yardstick, the United States lends the world in pros perity and Russia Is near the bottom of the list.” Taber explains that although a cer tain amount of sugar will he used as a necessity, all sweets over a certain point are regarded as luxury. “As suming, therefore, that the craving for sugar Is proportional to the craving for other luxuries and human Indulgences, we get a fairly accurate Idea of a nation's prosperity from Its per capita consumption of sugar.” Recent statistics show that the av erage person In the United States eats 101 pounds of sugar every year. Eng land stands next with a per capita consumption of 9.3. Germany records 53 pounds per person every year, Italy 14 and Russia 9. Six Grandmothers Corvallis. Mont.—Bert Douglas Walk er. aged nine months. Is the most grandmothered baby In the world, It Is believed. He has six living—two grandmothers proper, two greats, and two greaf-greats. Mr. and Mrs. Clem Walker are his parents. The grand mothers are Mrs. Lucy Cole and Mrs. B. N. Walker of this city. The great grandmothers are Mrs. M. F. I’opham and Mrs. N. Baquet, both of Corvallis; and the great-great-grandmothera are Mrs. A. L. Cole of Missoula and Mrs. Samatha Walker of Unlonvllle. Mo. Lost Flower Found Washington. — A flower species found in early American colonial days and not seen again for 175 years has been rediscovered at Upper Marlboro, Md„ near here, by two Washington naturalists, Dr. E. T. Wherry of the United States Department of Agricul ture and Dr. J. E. Benedict of th# National museum. The plant is the pink turtlehead known to botanists aa Chelone obliqua. Japan Subsidizes Radio Tokyo.—A bill granting a subsidy to the new radio corporation of Ja pan, established for the promotion of radio Intercourse between this coun try and America, will be Introduced In the diet by the department of com munications. It will provide for an, amount equal to 8 per cent of ths capitalization of the concern. 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