TUBERCULOSIS VICTIM.
VOLUNTARY INOCULATION. The New, York correspondent of the "London Standard," writing oji May 29, states: —A man, calling himself' Morritt, but who admits that it is a pseudonym, volunteered recently, in tho interest of humanity and medical science, to be inoculated with, tho germs of tuberculosis. ' Morritt, who is middle-aged, was once a. prosperous bookbinder in the western district of Now. York. His wife and son died of tuberculosis, after which ho becamo despondent, and descended in tho social scale, and finally ho drifted to tho Salvation Army quarters here, whore lie announced his willingness to dio if his death might aid in combating tuberculosis. His offer was not taken for scvcra.l days, until a New York doctor decided to experiment on'him, and ' inoculated Morritt on May 21. The doctor says the disease'has now thoroughly entered Morritt's system, but he does not intimate yet what are his jaothods of observation or treatment.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 257, 23 July 1908, Page 8
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