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VACCINE FOR BUBONIC

PLAGUE

Manchukuo's Contribution

(By HENRY WOOD)

San Francisco, Cal. The soya bean and a perfected vaccine for the bubonic plague promise to be Manchuria's two greatest contributions to civiliza- tion for the time being, according to Dr. Kikuo Karauchi, one of the Japanese scientists most res- ponsible for the development of the latter.

When the vaccine has been brought to perfection, Dr. Karauchi declares, it will in the end be the South Man- churian Railway that was respon- sible for both. 11 was largely for getting the Manchurian crop of soya beans to the outside work that the

South Manchurian Railway

was

built, he states, and it was the same railway that Installed first at Duiren, ten years ago, the laboratories that to-day are steadily solving the prob. lem uf the bubonic plague the

greatest scourge of Asia.

Dr. Karanchi is now in the United States for the purpose of checking up on his unti-bubonic serum with various laboratories such as those at the university of California and Harvard, and also of applying It In the western part of the United States

where for a number of years past, squirrels and other rodents are known to be affected with the plague, The serum of Dr. Karauchi and his associates in the laboratories of the South Manchurian Railway has already been perfected to such an extent that it has been used 011 100,000 people in Manchuria the past year, while during the coming year; it is expected to extend the trent ment to 300,000,

Simultaneously, it is being used, ke states, in Fukien, which is the centre of the plague for China. Reports on the results have been made to the International Health Department of

the League of Nations.

While the Hooper foundation of the University of California reports that a steady increase in rodents in- fected with the bubonic plague is being found in the western states, it has not as yet been earried to human beings. It is hoped that Dr. Karaucht's experiment on the sub- jeet will tend to prevent liis. Before leaving for the East he conducted experiments on the subject at the Hooper Foundation here with Dr. Kart F. Meyer, America's leading authority on the bubonic plague.

Dr. Karauchi explains that the present development of his serum is the resultof ten years of laboratory work. The first success wus The production of a substance that pro- vided protection not against the plugue microbe, but ngainst one of its component parts.

Under the system as it is now per- fecled. the plague microbes Иго produced in the laboratory in great numbers and then killed so they can! Cause

infection. The dead microbe is then broken up and fron the various fractions of the bacteria, selections are made that produce an immunizing serum.

HEADACHES NEARLY DROVE HIM MAD

Now Completely Changed

By Kruschen

After spending some years in the tropics the writer of the following letter returned home suffering from liver trouble, constant headaches, and an unhealthy lond of excess fat. Read how he cured his headaches— toued up his Ilver-and lost 30 s. of fat-all with the same remedy- Kruschen Salts:--

"I was so stout that my general health was completely undermined. I had constant headaches that ni- most drove me crazy, and I suffered from a continual feeling of liverish- ness. I weighed 18 stone 5 lbs. began to take Kruschen Salts, and, after 10 or 12 days, my whole being was completely changed. My liver docs you get bother me any more, I feel younger and

more active, iny head- aches are gone. Yesterday, to great delight, found that I now weigh only 13 stone 11 Ibs."-M.A.L.

my

Headaches can nearly always be traced to a disordered stomach, and to the unsuspected retention in the system of stagnating waste material, Kruschen Salts removes these pol- sons-prevents them forming again -and brings swift and lasting relict from headaches,

It offers protection for a period of 14 months. This would necessitate the re-vaccination of the entire Man- churian population or that of China or any other country once a year,

In view of the fact, however, that the mortality rate of the bubonic plague is virtually 100 per cent, Dr. Karauchi believes that this will be worth the while, until science can go stil farther. And he la convinced that greater progress can still be

nade.

Just before leaving Manchuria for bis

American present

trip, Dr. Karnuch and his assistants made their Grst tests with the new serum as a curative agent rather than us merely an immunizing one. A horse was used for injections until it was belleved that its blood had developed a curative serum. The latter was used on three patients who were apparently dying of the plague. one of One of the three failed to respond to the treatment, but the two others recovered. The serum, he declares, will be used on hundreds of other victims during the next few months until its efficiency can be established or the possibilities of other perfec- tion ascertained,

Dr. Karauchi is counting very much on his consultations with lend- ing American scientists during his present American tour to ald in find- ing a final solution for the plague.

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