NO AVAIL IN SAVING LIFE.

Evening Post, Volume 137, Issue CXI, 10 June 1926, Page 9

NO AVAIL IN SAVING LIFE.

(Unitad Press Association,—Copyright) (Received 10th June, 10 a,m.) •

MELBOURNE, This Day.

In the House of Representatives, speaking on tho Smallpage anti-tuber- | culosis treatment, the Minister of Health, Sir Neville Howse, said that the Commonwealth Laboratory experiments showed that the disintegration and fragmentation of tubercle bacilli did not occur after the treatment with splenic extract; that there was no evidence of any lytic principle in the splenic extract. Guinea pigs, artificially infected with human tubercle bacilli, were divided into two groups, one group treated and i the other group kopt as controls, in which the disease was allowed to develop normally. All the treated animals were dead, he said, while the control animals were still alive. Some rabbits infocted with bovine tubercle bacilli were similarly divided into two groups. Some were treated by different method, .approved by Dr. Smallpage, while others were kept as controls. The treated animals died more rapidly than the controls. The Acting-Director of the Laboratory, in a summary, said that tho results indicated that neither the serum nor the extract had been of the slightest avail in saving the lives of g__iea pigs infected with human tubercle bacilli. On tho other hand they indicated that death waa hastened by the use of those agents.