Sacrifice to Science.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLI, Issue 5, 29 July 1908, Page 20

Sacrifice to Science.

A man named Merritt lias been inoculated in New York with the germs of tuberculosis for the purpose of medical observation and treatment. He is middle-aged, and was once a prosperous tradesman in Western New York. Some time ago his wife and son died of consumption, he lost his business, and finally became a tramp, in which state he drifted into one of the Salvation Army homes. It was while there that he expressed his willingness to die if he might thereby aid medical science in combating tuberculosis. The offer was accepted some da vs later bv a medical man of New York. The doctor who inoculated Merritt on May 21, states that tuberculosis has now thoroughly entered his system. He has not yet explained his methods of observation or his system of treatment, or how he hopes to add to medical knowledge by his human experiment.