Treatment of bacterial diseases / [Sheridan Delépine].

  • Delépine, Sheridan, 1855-1921.
Date:
[1891?]
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Credit: Treatment of bacterial diseases / [Sheridan Delépine]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the parasite. This is apparently the view which Koch has talceti of the action of his lymph. The action of the product on the tissues is, however, of the same kind as that of the substances used in some of the methods already mentioned, but more intense, and Koch's viaws will probably have to be modified. In this attempt to analyse the methods which have been proposed I have separated processes many of which may act concurrently. This is, however, of little consequence, for my object was less to give an account of any single method than to trace the development of the ideas which are at the basis of the treatment of bacterial diseases. In this way I hope I may have been able to show you how science prepares the way for the highest branches of the art—\\z., preventive, protective, and curative medicine. NoTB.—Both Toussaint and Chauveau had already aflBrmed the possibility of chemical Taccination. Toussaint in 1880 produced immunity to anthrax hy what he believed to be a cultiTation of the bacillus sterilised by heat. In the original lecture which had been prepared in a few hours after the reading of Koch's November communication, the date of Salmon and Smith's com- munieation was given as 1883 instead of 1886. Salmon's paper in 1883 does not, however, refer to chemical vaccination. The paper which I had in my mind was the one to be found in the Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. iii., Feb. 22, 1886.