Medicine: Meningitis Antitoxin

Tests indicate that every other child is liable to an attack by cerebro-spinal meningitis. Currently only 174 cases are known to exist in the U. S. Last year at this time there were only 49 cases. But four years ago an epidemic flecked the nation with children dying stiff as boards. In extreme cases the disease bent the necks of victims so tensely that the backs of their heads lay between their shoulder blades.

In 1887 Dr. Anton Weichselbaum (1845-1920) of Vienna isolated the specific germ, meningococcus, which attacks the membranes covering the...