NEW USE FOR HOUSE SERUM.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 7737, 17 April 1896, Page 2

NEW USE FOR HOUSE SERUM.

" Sebum" is a word that has been much used of late years in connection with prophylatic surgery, and especially in connection with the most modern form of the latter, the antitoxin treatment for diphtheria. Serum is the liquor which is left when blood is allowed to coagulate and the clotted red matter is taken away. In the preparation of serum for treating diphtheria a healthy horse is inoculated with the bacilli of the disease a certain r**ft£ ber of times. His system conquers the poison, and at last there comes a time when injections of the diphtheritic poison iaiV to cause any manifestation of evil effects. The horse is then said to be " immune." Te utilise him as a means to the curing of diphtheria in human beings, or the prevention of the disease in them, his blood is drawn off as wanted, is allowed to clot, the serum is separated, and a definite quantity of this serum constitutes a dose for hypodermic injection. So far the use of horse serum is fairly well known. But now a Spanish doctor is using it for quite different reasons, and apparently with success. The serum he injects is not from horses rendered " immune " against disease, but from the healthiest horses he can find. His object is to procure pure blood serum, his theory being that it will act as a general strengthener of weak human constitutions. Bis experiments have been carried out with children in the wards of a hospital at Barcelona. He injects doses of aerum daily for two or three weeks, or until a cure is effected in some few cases, and he has found it act as a remarkably powerful tonic. The red corpuscles of the blood increase in number, the child increases in weight, and becomes stronger. It is said that there is no untoward secondary effects, and that the good effects of the injections upon weakly children are quickly manifested. Among other cures asserted, it is reported that sixteen cases of chorea (St. Vitus's dance) were cured in a period for each case of fifteen days on an average.

On oui' back page to-day will be found the continuing instalment of the serial << Black Heart and White Heart." Tho Polo Club's gymkhana and sports oommence at the Napier Park to-morrow afternoon at 1.30 pharp An early start is necessary, to enable the programme to be finished at a reasonable hour. Aβ this is the first meeting oi its kind held in HawWβ Bfty s it will no doubt attract a large gathering. The entries are very satisfactory indeed, comprising some eighty odd for the nine event? ou the programmo. Mrs G. P. Donnelly has intimated thai she will present a brooch to the lady who nominates the winner of tie Thread-the-needle Knee, while tho Hon. Captain Buasoll furnishes the trophy for the wianor of the big event;, the Polo Cup. Afternoon tea will be sappJied on the ground at a small charge. At a meeting of the management commit, te of the New Zealand Kugby Union it wan decided to invite a Queensland team to visit Wew Zealand in August, leaving Sydney by the Alameda on the 3rd August.

At the usual fortnightly meeting of the Loyal Kapiei: Lodge of Oddlellows laat sight the sum oi , £6 was voted to tho Brunnor fund. Bro. Fielder gave an intoi'osting itocouiit of the Wellington conference. Tho Heuttitary wes iustsauted to writo to tho Lodgua of the Unity at i J ors Ahuriri, Tr»radule, Oliya, Hastiiigs, Maraohakclio, Waipawß, and Waipukurau, roquestJßg thota to meet; at the Napier ljod#e rootu on rhe mortiiDg of the 29th, to tuko purt i'--. tho domonytration for the relief of Lho Bruimortoa suflerurs. Visitors wero rrußoat from the Meanee J..odae, who were entertained at a social at the couolueion of the ordinary business.

The Ohtistohuroh Working Men'a Club last night resolved to petition tho Heu*>o not to further in nay aliapo with th-j conduct oi' miin'igement of oiubf, sind to solid a copy of tho petition to nil Workiug Men's Oiuba in the oolooy.

A pleit.«(infc reunion swmlted from the L'ociiil hold in tho IToresttra' Hall, last eveuitig, by tho mernbera of tho Congregational Church iiiiti irionds. 'Ihoro wtia a largo attendances, find tho proceedings wore of a. most eujoytibio order, '.ihe arraiigemc-ata, both for the musioiil programme and tho refreshments, wore oatried out by tho ladios who, us uHUiil, loft nothing to bo doairod. Uoiigx woro contributed by Ji'ceara Duvie, V. Hkelin, 6tttinnand, W. Kobiueon, and D'Authtrau; duels by Miss and Mr W BlobisiSuH and Missus Jieiison uud Haald; juntmrnec.fc.'il Eeteotioi'iH by !EJwaee Cherry, f;,:ilo. Sehierniugi .tud Mr Brir.r-co; and )fooifca.(;>o!!8 by Miaa By dor and Mesura Wiao .'Hid tec'N'iiu; hun. Ac the conoiiinion, the >.iov. Mr Miller ro'-urnod Ihittikb to »U who Litici aiitistbd, mill made n fuw wiuuricM rolutivo to tho hoUliug of tho Cougrcgiitiouiii services iii the Forofctora' Hull iv tho future, Tho sinking of \h<\ ".Doxology" iitid the Bonediution termionted tho ontortfiiuniout, after which somo businosa was dciie iv uonni;otioa with tho sale of fancy work.

Captain .Russell, M.H.R. for Hawte's Bay, addressed a public meeting of citizens last night at Auckland. The Mayor (Mr J. J. Holland) presided, and there was a large attendance. Among thosa on the platform wore the Hon. 3. Mitohelson, erd j Messrs 0. E. Button, W. F. Massey, W. ! Orowther, and F. La wry, M.H.R.'a. and a large number of representative citizens. Captain Buesell was received -with cheers. Ha said it was not his first appearanoe in Auokland, as he wis there as a subaltern in the 58th Begiment 40 years ago to tako part in the defence of tha colony, and was back again to meet them. The country was not now so self-reliant as then, and msn were looking to the Government, and taught to look to the Government to do everything for them, and having their independency sapped by paternal legislation What was the position of the colony at present P Certainly unsatisfactory, although he had to congratulate Auokland on her present prosperity. He severely criticised tho Government policy, receiving an excellent hearing. Threo_ or four members of the Liberal Association kept up a running fire of interruptions til! the chairman interposed. Mr Hugh Campbell moved, and Mr Arthur Heatb.es secoaded, a hearty vote oi thanks to Captain Husaell for his able address, whioh was carried by acclamation amid prolonged applause.

The annual business meeting of the Napier Junior Club will be held at the Athensaum thia evening.

Tho house belonging to tho Key. J. G. E'cclts sni oocupied by Mr 0. M. Whittington, at Waipawa, had a narrow escape of being burned down on Wednesday morning. Some sparks from the chimney ignited the shingle roof, which was soon ia a blaze. Fortunately Messrs Grenside and Fletoher were working near, and they, aided by a young man in the employ of Mr Jolly, set to work with a will and quickly subdued the flames. Had assistance not been handy, says the Mail, the place must have been destroyed, for the houee is an old one and would have burned like a matohbox.

Writes a London correspondent:— "lt ia not, I think, generally known that Sir John Millnis, the new president of the Royal Academy, was, like Lord Salisbury, on the Australian goldfields in 1852. A colonial J paper called attention some years ago to the ""■markable fact that three yoang men des- '*«._ * ! " V| distinction indifferent spheres tfncfl to a, s ._ '**« statesman, Bir John —Lord &&iiehaxj *>~~ '" ti omaß Woolner Miliais the paintes", S«<3 ■•■ --> Victhe sculptor—iffete simutaneoaaly »- toria at the height c£ tho gold fever in the , early fifties, 'ihie statement, on being re- j printed in England, was called into question in some quarters, but it ia historically correct, although the. stay of Sir John Miliais in the colonies was much shorter than Lord Salisbury's and Mr Woolnet's. There are some of hia relatives still in Melboutne. The brother-in-law of Sir John :a Mr Eodgkinson, the peraanont head of the Lsracta Department in Viototia."

Thursday, the 23rd inst., -willbe ctasrved an & public holiday in the Government offices throughout New Zealand for the celebration of St. George's Day.

King Proinpeli and tho Aehanti expedition are estimated to ooat Great Britain £120,000, against whioh the crown, gold dust, end jewels of the dethroned monmoh may be expeoted to rank as assets. Tho legisaental pay is eet down at £8500 ; medical establishment, £2500; transport and remounts, J(67,000; provisions, forage, &c, £2700; tradiug establishment and service, £10,000 ; warlike and other stores, £15,000. Ihe payment of the native carriers, estimated at about £40,000, has been met out of the funds advanced by the Colonial Treasurer on the Gold Coast. The balance of the cost of the expedition, to meet which the supplementary eatimate has been franSed, will be ultimately repaid by the Colonial Government in instalments.

The periodical woolsales were hald yesterday. The usual attendance of the trade was present. Bidding for wool was very dull, and in conaeOuenoa several lofa were passed. Skioa and hides; on the other hand, were well competed for, sind realised highly satisfactory prices. Wool—Soiigh stragglers' fleece Gjd, medium lambs inferior lambs to 6d, crossbred pieces sd, for medium to 3Jd for inferior, medium looks to 3d. Sheepskins—Fnll-woolled crossbred sjd, helf-woolled crossbred and half-bred 4d to sd, ehort 3£d, hoggots up to sd, superior iambs 4d to o£d, for medium good butchers' pelts Is to Iβ 3d oaoh, station saved 4d to 8d each, damaged 2d to 3d each,

Though Major the Hen* Charles Coventry was not killed at Krugersdorp, he appears to have been very badly wounded, and to owe his recovery in a very large measSco to the skilful nursing of hie cousin, Lady Ernestine Brudensll-Bruoe (says the St. James's Budget) . The etory ia quite romantic, and can seldom be read outside the covers of a three-volume novel. It seems that Lady Ernestine waa in the neighborhood of Johannesburg when Dr Jameson came in oonfliot with the Boers, and, hearing that her cousin was wounded, she at once went to the scene. On the way she met Major Coventry, who was being carried on a stretcher to the hospital. So was wounded in two plaoes in the region of the spine. He arrived with his cousin at Plymouth on Sunday night on the Mexican. He told his friends that he felt he had very nearly reoovered, and that his state of convalescence was due to the ki~<3 and nareE&ittiiig nuraing of JFiedy Ernestine Bruce. Ho expects to be arrested and to take his place in the row of defendants at Bow atreet on the 10th inst. Lady Ernestine Brudenell- Brace will no doubt ba there to see him should he be arreeted. She is the eldest daughter of the fifth and present Marquess of Ailesbury, and to high lineage adds the graoes of youth,- for she has only just passed her twenty-fifth year.

Yesterday we received a Press telegram from Westport to this efCeot : -~ ,s The Ooromandel waa abandoned to the underwriters this afternoon. Ihe barque is full of water, but has suffered no damage above water line. When the flood goes down she will be secured to the breakwater by chains, to prevent her drifting to the channel." As no previous message had coma to hand that the barque had grounded, the above waa a mystery. The following, however, reached us at a late hour last night. We might add that the delivery of telegrams by the Department has not for some time past been at all fatisfaotory. The Press -4 ssociation agent at is not blameless in the present complaint. Ihe 768361 grounded on Wednesday forenoon, and the nows only reached here Me on Thursday afternoon :— "Xhe barque Ooromondel, coal laden, bound for Valparaiso, stranded in the river yesterday forenoon. The tug diet not get proper cmtrol of the vesfel. she got 150 feet out of the deep water channel, and took ground in a shallow patoh, from which the tug failed to move her. A hundred tons of coal were discharged into the dredge hop jers. At tide time last night the barque waa afloat, but a heavy fresh and gale preTented the tug getting hold of her this morning. The barque h full of water, her anohor haying apparently put a hole in her. A survey will be made immediately. The vessel doea not interfere with the navigation of the port."

'•SOOLBtf' OOlili PAIMT >raio%- s«klgyoh either hard ox soft oc?«us. Only & few applications jseoeaeasrp. la botJlas Is (3d, feoia A. Eocles, Obaraist, SJaaonio Hotel Buildings, K'apio?. TBMPOEARY PR *!'-MIBEB—A. Eeolea, chemist, bega So announce so the residents of Hastings that ha has opened Temporary Promioaaiu ta.a Old Shop, Bsecroft'a entcanoe, uuder the oharge of Mr Wallaoe. A complete siook of Druga, Ohemioale, Bundries, and Patent Medicines. Any artiolo not in sfcook will be obtained at shortest notioe. MS T. MYJGR3 Picture Frame Maker, Gilder, and Mount Gutter, of 68, Hastings street, Napier, is prepared to frame and mount every description of Pictures toorder at reasonable prioes. Also Ladies' Needlework, and Oil Paintings framed in any design; 20,006 feet of Mouldings to ohooae from. Men's fihoea 6s 6d, Canvas do ss; Tan 6s od. jSI great variety of Zealandia Coots and Shoes All our Boote and Bhoes rednoed from 2s to 3d pur vair. If yoa see them you muot buy at Patterson and Co.'s, Emerson street. Mr Davies, of Messrs Wilson and Daviee, dentists, visits Hastings ovory Tuesday and Friday, and may be consulted at their rooms at Mr ifiuoles' Ohomist. Hours, J. 0.45 a.d. to 4.30 p.m.