Serums, vaccines and toxines in treatment and diagnosis.

  • Bosanquet, W. Cecil (William Cecil), 1866-1941.
Date:
1904
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    books as Prof. Hewlett's Serum Therapy, or the German work of Deutsch and Feistmantel, Die Impfstoffe und Sera, both of which I have consulted. I must also acknowledge my indebtedness to Marx' Diagnostik, Serumtherapie und Prophylaxe, and to Dieudonnes Immunitiit, Schutzimpfung und Serumtherapie. I have as far as possible quoted original authorities throughout for statements on subjects which have not passed beyond the sphere of controversy. If I am accused of setting forth my conclusions as to the value of the different remedies with more dogmatism than is justifiable in the present state of our ignorance, I must plead that for practical purposes definite assertions are necessary. I have endeavoured to give due weight to the difficulties and disappointments met with in applying these preparations, as well as to the advantages to be expected from the use of them. Finally, 1 have included the study of diagnosis, as well as that of treatment, by methods involving the use of serums and toxines, since the connection between the subjects is so close that they can scarcely be separated, depending as they do upon the same general principles, and involving the action of bodies formed in response to almost identical stimuli. My very sincere thanks are due to my friend Dr. J. W. Eyre, Lecturer on Bacteriology at Guy's Hospital, for his kindness in criticising the proof-sheets: without the confidence derived from his supervision I should scarcely have ventured to undertake the duties of a pilot amid the shifting and ill-charted shoals of recent bacterio- logical speculation and research. London, May, 1904. W. C. B.