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A6 THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDN MAGGOTS HELPING | T0 HEAL WOUNDS Give Off New Substance Be- lieved to Weaken Deadly Bacteria. BY THOMAS E. HENRY. Tsolation of a new and extremely pow- erful substance—the “active principle” | of blow-fly maggots—which is extremely | effective tn clearing up infections m| deep wounds and persistent, non-heal- | 1ng sores has just been announced by the Medical Department of the United States Veterans’ Administration. This active principle, the isolation of which constitutes one of the most not- able recent advances g medical science, is believed to be a bace>lophage, sup- sedly an almost infinitely minute liv- i ‘otganism which infects bacteria somewhat as they themselves infect higher organisms. The discovery, according to the re- port of Dr. S. K. Livingston, in the July Medical Bulletin of the Veterans' Ad- ministration, came in the course of a long series of experiments at the Vet- erans’ Hospital at Hines, Ill, in the treatment with maggots of infected wounds, cases of chronic osteomyelitis and complications following fractures. This treatment actually is to place the living maggots in the wounds. They crawl into the deep-seated pockets and presumably devour the bacteria and eat away the iniected flesh. At the game time they injure surrounding tissues less than would stringent antiseptics. ‘This treatment of wounds was known to some tribes of Plains Indians and was redis- covered during the World War by Dr. ‘William S. Baer of Johns Hopkins Uni- versity while serving as a surgeon in France. Aided Wounded Soldiers. Dr. Baer noticed that the wounds of some American soldiers who had laid on the field for more than 24 hours before they were discovered were very badly infested with maggots and when they were brought to the field hospital little hope was held out for their re- covery because of the opportunity for infection to develop. To Dr. Baer’s sur- prise these wounds not only healed more quickly but more completely than very similar injuries in men who had been picked up by stretcher bearers within a few minutes after being struck and had been given almost immediate hospital treatment. Dr. Baer did not immediately connect the maggots with the remarkable heal- ing and not until several years after the war did he have the courage to apply the principle in medical practice. Then he tried it on some children with osteo- muvelitis at the Johns Hopkins clinic whose cases were considered hopeless. In a few weeks they were cured. Since then the treatment has been widely practiced and the Department of Agri- culture has established a laboratory for the rearing of antiseptic maggots. But the treatment is somewhat re- ulsive and the surgeon must be abso- utely sure of the sterility of the mag- gots. Now comes the remarkable dis- Covery of the Veterans' Administration doctors. They found that within 24 hours after the maggots were placed in the wound there oozed out a brownish- Ted, evil-smelling foam, a discharge about five times greater than that due to any other method of treatment. This reaction is repeated following each dressing throughout the period of heal- ing. Maggots Die Quicker. The discharge, says the report, “con- sists of serum, bacteria, pus and a heal- ing secretion, or active principle, the origin of which has not yet been de- termined but is being investigated. After the third or fourth application the maggots which, in the earlier appli- cations, remained alive from three to five days, now only live three to five “This is because the active principle Ddas increased in virulence, and the hydrogen-ion concentration of the wound has shifted to higher levels. In this active principle and increased hydro- gen-lon concentration the maggots can- not survive. The wound rapidly fills under stimulation of this active prin- ciple with an excessive production of healthy and pink granulation .tissue. the color and rapidity of production of which is in marked contrast to the less healthy granulation produced in wounds treated by other methods.” This active principle alone, he says, has been effective in curing several cases. Paste made from the dead bodies of the maggots also was effective as a curative agent. Whether the crawling and feeding action of the maggots is also of value is undetermined. The ex- periments are being continued, the re- Pport says. The discovery of the active principle may enable the more effective treatment of wounds on the battle field or at the actual time of an accident. Three new highways in the Yemen, in the Near East, are being constructed over routes now served by pack ani- ‘mals. £5..B80. EXCURSIONS $3.50 New York SUNDAY, JULY 31 Leave Washington 13 midnight| or 8:00 A. M. Return same day. $4.00 Atlantic City AY, JULY 81 b SUNDAY. JULY 24 Leave 11:30 A, M. $3.00 Chester $2.75 Wilmington SUNDAY, JULY 24 ave Washington 7:36 30 A. M. Return *Does not stop at Chester. ATLANTIC CITY Week-End All-Expense Tours LY 23-30 Return same day. L 11 ngton 1:00 P. M. ‘Atlamtic City Sun< $16.80 Niagara Falls JULY 2829 Leave Washington 8:00 A. M. or $:00 P. M. Return Itmited to 16 ;‘lt)'l. Ask Ticket Agent for leaf- et. $1.50 Harpers Ferry $2.00 Martinsburg, $3.00 Cumberland SUNDAY, JULY 31 Leave Washington 8:30 A, M. Return same day. Baltimore .25 Saturdays and Sundays Dally. Good for three days Reductions In Round Trip Fares 45% | 25% To all B. & 0.|To Middle West, including Cm1- 1 $1.50 day. i1 Midnight Mo; fay Bavrinore s oHr “LIVING SOCIALISM™ IS GOAL FOR CHILE, DECLARES DAVILA Disavows Desire to Keep Power Indefinitely as Dictator. Unhampered by Following, He Points Out, Task Is Simplified. By the Associated Pross. SANTIAGO, Ch'le, July 20.—Carlos Davila, acting President of Chile, wants to establish “a living socialistic state.” Then he will retire to private life, perhaps resume the editorial work that was his profession before and after the four years which he served in Washing- | ton as Ambassador of his country. | Disavowing any desire to retain power | indefinitely, he said that once “the la-| bor of construction” of the new republic | has been accomplished, he would con- sider his persoral presence in La Mo- | neda Palace unnecessary. _ Senor Davila views his work as diffi- cult, but at the same time easier than it might have been had he been encum- | bered with party pledges or hampered | by having to cater to & personal follow- ing in politics. ‘Unhampered by Group. “T have no political followers nor any party or group behind me which could | interfere with my action,” he explained. | So, by his individual effort as head of the state he hopes to put into effect | 608 | ~ated on an issue of $1,000,000 first | | mortgage bonds sold by the Edgewater | [if CARLOS DAVILA. people. For this reason our work is | arduous, provokes reactions and arouses | profound resistance. “The government is under the para- doxical policy of being truly revolution- ary, firmly energetic and, at the same time, both tolerant and a destroyer of extremes. It follows a course between hatred from above and momentary mis- | understandings from below, and its| aims which he described as follows: |~ “We wish a living state. It will be so organized that 3t will be a living body | and not the abstract conception of a| bureaucratic state Which acts s a com- placent paymaster. It will be 50 organ- ized that it can demand efficiency from the individual because it mssumes for that individual the social obligation of givicg him work.” 3 Davila expects to have discipline in the ranks of his Socialist republic and | full co-operation. He knows the oppo- sition he faces and must encounter, but | he anticipates that this opposition will | be overcome. “Qur system of Socialist transforma- tion,” he said, “demands that there shall be a collective discipline which will destroy hidden_interests and contend against the ambitions of individuals or groups, “Socialism hurts many interests which defend themselves easily by hiding be- | hind feelings which are rooted in the | because- ives relief by soothing e not deadening them. Contains no opiates. .Won'l ups stomach. Being liquid, it acts quicker 2 than pills or powders- t drug stores 'Zfia. 10c, 30c. 60c sizes. fundamental support rests on & firm and orderly will to triumph. “I assume all responsibility for put- ting down disorder. If we have prc ceeded with energy against the agil tors, we are proceeding with equal firm- ness against those groups which caused all the evils from which the country is suffering. “The powerful person who fights to retain his unjust privileges is infinitely more guilty than the misguided laborer who pursues illusory ideas.” SALE OF HOTEL SOUGHT |Suit to Foreclose Filed Against Edgewater Gulf, Chicago. GULFPORT, Miss, July 20 (A).— The First Union Trust & Savings Bank of Chicago and Rufus F. Chapin, Chi- cago, trustee, yesterday filed suit in Chancery Court to foreclose on a bond mortgage against the Edgewater Gulf Hotel, one of the largest of the Missis- sippi Gulf coast hostelries. The suit asked for court sale of the hotel, its furnishings and its large acreage on the beach, with a deficiency judgment if the sale should fail to cover the alleged indebtedness of $957.- ARMY POST EXCHANGES SCORED AND DEFENDED Witnesses Heard at Congress Com- mittee Inquiry Into Effect on Private Business. By the Assoclated Press. timony against and in behalf of Army post exchanges today was placed in the records of a congressional committee inquiring into governmental competition with private business. was devoted entirely to the purported | effects of the exchanges upon business [ in cities near the Army posts of Fort | Leavenworth and Fort Riley, both in Kansas. After merchants from Leaven- | worth had told of losses incurred | through Government competition, rep- | resented by the post exchange and the | Federal prison canteen, Brig. Gen Stuart P. Heintzelman, commandant at The foreclosure action was pred- company in August, 1926, which were declared in default in September, 1931. PERPETUAL BUILDING ASSOCIATION PAYS 5% Assets Over $28,000,000 Surplus, $1,250,000 Cor. 11th and E Sts. NW. JAMES BERRY. President EDWARD C. BALTZ, Secretary FOOT Sample Shoes Sizes 4 B Reduced to $ 4.90 Oxfords, straps at beige, brawn and black only—all are smart ICH styles! F St. arv JAY, KANSAS CITY, Md. July 20.—Tes- | ‘The second day of the investigation | | Store Closed Saturdays During July and August 1932. JULY 20, Fort Leavenworth, took the stand i defense of the store. He described the exchange as a neces- sity for the 540 families living on the reservation, three miles from Leaven- worth. He said he believed it was un- fair to isolate a group in any area and then not allow them the conveniences others enjoy. Some prices at the ex- change, he said, were higher than those in the city. Late in_the day merchants from | Junction City, the nearest commercial center to Fort Riley, were called. Harold P. Reaume, secretary of the city’s Chamber of Commerce, said a threat- | ened boycott prevented the appearance of more witnesses. “KLUTCH” HOLDS FALSE TEETH TIGHT Klutch forms a comfort cushion holds the plate 5o Snug it can't rock drop, chafe or “be plaved with.” You Can ‘eat and speak as well as you did || With “our own teeth. 25c and 50c a ||| Box "t Drus ‘Stores.—Advertisement. SAVER and 4, B 1l step-ins—in white, TENTH 0.G. proves its case Scientific tests upset claims of rival brands. Give verdict to Old Gold, as coolest, 77 GLUS WOMEN INTERESTED IN CIGARETTE PURITY WITNESS OLD GOLD SCIENTIFIC VICTORY Olliver C. Harriman, Mrs. Julisn Gerard, and Mrs. William Thaw III, keen spectators of the Calo- o ter test showing the greater cooloess of OLD GOLD, in comparison with 3 other leading brands. ROOF!. . . that’s what you want in a cigarette advertisement. 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