Anti-Tuberculosis Vaccine?

The Duke of Westminster, stupendously rich English nobleman, the Aga Khan, very rich Mohammedan lord, and certain of their rich, sporting cronies have canceled their mortgage on Henry Spahlinger's secret vaccine against tuberculosis. A few people in the U. S. last week knew the formula for manufacturing the vaccine, which doctors have demanded since Henry Spahlinger first crossed medical tempers. But those in the know were reticent in admitting their knowledge. For detailed information it was better to write directly to Mr. Spahlinger at his Institut Bacterio-therapique in Geneva, Switzerland, or to the proud English folk who attended the extraordinary ceremony of revelation.

The ceremony took place in London, in the Berkeley Square home of Lady Seaforth, hospital benefactress. Because she asked them and because Mrs. Spahlinger was the Countess Charlotte Mary Gandolfi-Hornyold, member of an Italian ducal family which has become more English than Italian, there came to Berkeley Square a distinguished company. It included the Marquess of Crewe, statesman, diplomat, minor poet; Major-General Sir Frederick Barton Maurice; Dr. Sir Harry Edwin Bruce Bruce-Porter. To them Henry Spahlinger dramatically announced that he was about to place his formula at the disposal of the world, free of charge.

Henry Spahlinger, 40, is a competent bacteriologist, a onetime student of science, medicine and law at the University of Geneva. Twenty years ago he produced what he believed was a vaccine against tuberculosis. He would not reveal how he prepared the vaccine, a secrecy which vexed other bacteriologists and made physicians suspicious of his claims. Certain patients in London hospitals submitted to the Spahlinger treatment. A few of them apparently were cured. His talkative, rich friends bruited his "cures," gave him unprofessional fame. A manufacturer of patent medicines offered him, it was said, $1,000.000 for his "formula." That "bribe" Henry Spahlinger disdained, spent his entire fortune of some $500,000 on perfecting his remedy. It was then that the Aga Khan, the Duke of Westminster and others placed their lien, now canceled, on the formula of manufacture. Henry Spahlinger thus had money to live on and to prosecute his research. Heart of the Spahlinger bacteriological technique is his theory that germs must be bred in cultures which duplicate to fine detail the living conditions they find in their natural hosts. Thus the tubercle bacillus which attacks cows needs a different culture environment from the tubercle bacillus which attacks human beings, and both need different cultures from the bacillus which causes diphtheria. This philosophy has been too precious for most bacteriologists to accept. For that reason, but more so for his stubborn secrecy and his able publicity, they have maligned Bacteriologist Spahlinger. He for his part has been micrometrically deliberate at his labors, and by no means frank.

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