Life — May 5, 1910 — page 6: what you’re looking at

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This mpression is false, because such a con. clusion cannot properly be drawn from the reports of a city health department In the first place, such reports are not of the cases ill with cerebro-spinal men- ingitis, but of deaths, as very few cases are reported unless fatal In the second place, my own experience lead me to believe that a very large proportion of the cases in the reports of the New York Health Department were not cases of epidemic cerebro-spinal men- ingitis at all. There are a great many fatal forms of cerebro-spinal meningitis which are usually reported as cerebro spinal meninigits without reference to their cau As the physician having charge of the use and distribution of the serum in New England, I have been called to administer serum in many cases already reported to local health boards as epidemic meningitis only a small proportion of which were the true epidemic form. I have personally used, or supervised the use, of Dr. Flexner’s serum in over er Company N PAPER FASTENERS ‘There is: “ 5 BA ther uae eo wellas Perfect Se- ‘they always wor lof brass in 3 sizes. Put up in brass boxes of 100 Fasteners each. STRONG No Shoping, NEVER! tamped on every fastener. Tostrated booklet free. Liberpl discount fo the trade. The O. K. Mfg. Co., ive. N.'Y., U.S. A. Spicy 8o cases of true cerebro-spinal menin- gitis, with a mortality of 28 per cent. If the unfavorable, late and moribund cases are excluded the mortality is under 20 per cent In our Children's Hospital here in Boston, during the ten years preceding the first use of the serum, the mortality of genuine cases varied from 60 per cent. to 85 per cent. In the first year that all hospital cases were treated with Dr. Flexner’s serum the mortality showed the remarkable drop to 19 per cent. The action of the serum in relieving the sufferings of children is very con- spicuous, The sisters in charge of the Children's Hospital state that the medi- cal wards now present a very different picture than they did before the day of serum. Formerly there were nearly al- ways children in the ward with intense headache, painful necks, twitchings, con- vulsions, delirium, ete., which symptoms frequently persisted for wecks. Now we do not see these things in the wards. Our meningitis patients are laughing and talking and playing. Formerly the lit- tle ones who did finally recover were frequently left idi deaf, blind or paralyzed, We have seen none of this since we have been using the seru For every monkey, whose sufferings are so graphically described by Mrs. Far- rell, I have personally seen many chil- dren rapidly and completely relieved from Jar or worse suffering through the use of Dr. Flexner’s anti-meningitis serum, Very truly yours, Cuartes Hunter Dunn, Assistant Physician ot the Children's Hospital, Boston. Boston, April 14, 1910. (Continued on page 795) @ Scize a gun in an emergency, under excitement, of in a dim light, and shoot. Do you deliberately aim? No, you rely on instinct, At such times you forget all about the sights on the barrel. If you seize an old-fashioned revolver with its crooked handle, and shoot, the | bullets will all go ceilingward. You hit nothing ycu aim at. If you shoot a Savage Automatic, your bullets will go straicht at what you intend to hit. 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