Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 February 1895 — Profit on Anti-Toxin. [ARTICLE]

Profit on Anti-Toxin.

London Letter in Philadelphia Telegraph. Dr. Roux is a poor man. He does not receive $2,000 a year. He works for humanity and for the honor of French science. If he scorns to speculate with his discoveries surely outsiders should not be allowed to derive profit from them. Dr. Roux night be a millionaire but that his nigh sense of honor will not allow aim to degrade science to the level as a trade. But in contrast to this noble attitude Dr. Jules Felix, of Brussels, writes me. pointing out that the anti-toxin serum of the horse, manufactured wholesale at Berlin, is now on sale in BeligtUm. The charge is no Jess than $4 for ten grammes, at least for quality No. 3, which is the strongest. As twenty grammes should be employed by day, this would mean $8 a day. Now, in Belgium a good, sound, but old, cavalry horse can be bought for S4O. Keeping and feeding the horse for three months, so as to render the animal immune, would cost $36. A. horse, even if bled only three times, would yield-each time three litres,in all nine litres, or 9,000 grammes of anti-toxin. Now, if 9,000 grammei are sold at the price charged by the German firm —namely, $4 for ten granules —this would represent a nice little sum of $3,100 for what would cost from $76 to, let us say, SIOO to produce, and there would still remain the horse in probably a healthier condition than when purchased.