Tuberculosis of children : its diagnosis and treatment / by Hans Much ; translated by Max Rothschild.

  • Much, Hans, 1880-1932.
Date:
1921
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Credit: Tuberculosis of children : its diagnosis and treatment / by Hans Much ; translated by Max Rothschild. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    If anyone should insist upon using tuber¬ culin instead of the partigens, he should pre¬ fer the method of increasing the doses gradu¬ ally, through which the tuberculin-oversensi¬ tiveness becomes lessened. We know that two methods exist: the one tries to preserve the sensitiveness to tuberculin, the other tries to diminish it. Both are right, even if they ap¬ pear to be sharply opposed to each other, be¬ cause the tuberculins on the market represent a mixture which contains the toxin-partigen (pure tuberculin) and the R. partigens (A. F. N.). Toxin-oversensitiveness is harm¬ ful, the R. partigen-oversensitiveness is use¬ ful. To lessen tuberculin-oversensitiveness, one desires to remove the harmful toxin-over¬ sensitiveness; if one wishes to increase it, one has the antibodies in mind against the R. par¬ tigens. But as in the tuberculins, which are on the market, the toxins substances are pre¬ valent, it would be better to use the method