Immunity, protective inoculations in infectious diseases and serum-therapy.

  • Sternberg, George Miller, 1838-1915.
Date:
1895
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    the inoculations made, inasmuch as we have these from an official source in the report of Dr. Bastarreche, which, with great fairness, Dr. Manzini has included in his vol- ume, although he insists, contrary to the opinion and fig- ures of Dr. Bastarreche, that the inoculations were at- tended with a comparatively favorable result. It will be sufficient to introduce here a single one of the tables appended to the report of Dr. Bastarreche. TABLE NO. V.—COMPARATIVE SUMMARY. Not Inoculated. Inoculated. Ratio of Attacked. Died. Ratio. Number. Attacked. Died. Mortality. 1,045 364 254 24.31 47 117.80 1,214 1,263 84 144 21 46 25.00 31.94 Total.... 1,309 301 22.99 1 2,477 228 67 29.39 Nothing further has been heard of Dr. Humboldt's method of inoculation in Havana, and the inference is that by common consent the experiment made on so large a scale, and under such favorable conditions, is regarded as having demonstrated its inutility. Another attempt to protect from yellow fever by inocu- lations is that made in 1864 by two physicians of Havana, members of the Academy of Sciences, and recorded in the Anales of the Academy. We quote the translation which Dr. Stanford E. Chaille, President of the Havana Yellow Fever Commission of the National Board of Health, has introduced into his elaborate and valuable Report: * * Annual Report of the National Board of Health for 1880, p. 166.