Wound infections : and some new methods for the study of the various factors which come into consideration in their treatment / by Sir Almroth E. Wright.

  • Wright, Almroth, 1861-1947.
Date:
1915
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Credit: Wound infections : and some new methods for the study of the various factors which come into consideration in their treatment / by Sir Almroth E. Wright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    said other than that until scientific knowledge has progressed much beyond where it is now, it might be well to act upon the suggestion made above with regard to the possible utility of antisepsis vaccines in staving off septicaemic infections. We now at the end of our survey come to the summary. That summary would clearly be, that the results of the inoculation of “ antisepsis vac¬ cines ” have conformed in everything to scientific expectation. Of the five possible applications of vaccine therapy, the second and the third have, ac¬ cording to anticipation, given strikingly favourable results. The fourth and the fifth—but perhaps certain reserves may be made in connexion with the fourth—have given, as anticipated, very un¬ favourable results. And that prophylactic employ¬ ment of antisepsis vaccines, which has not yet been put to probation, would seem eminently deserving of an extended and careful trial, preferably in con¬ junction with physiological drainage.