Article November 10, 1898 Issue

CALLS ANTI-TOXINE A HUMBUG

J. Morrison

Dr. Morrison, an eminent physician of Washington, D. C., writes the following article to the editor of the Washington Post.

The views of eminent physicians and surgeons,—given out of their own experience extending over many years, in opposition to some of the methods so long in vogue, and so vigorously upheld by a part of the profession,—are entitled to great weight and serious consideration. Surely, the world must in time become convinced that the entire materia medica is a thing of mere human opinion, rather than an exact science, or any science at all.—Ed. Weekly.

Editor Post:—According to a recent report in the New York Journal and other newspapers, a case of general tetanus has been cured by injecting anti-toxine into the brain, an opening having been made in the frontal region of the skull for that purpose. Any treatment which will cure or even relieve this formidable malady will be a great boon to society, but I deny in toto the efficacy of anti-toxine or any other similar septic poison in such cases.