The extra pharmacopoeia / by William Martindale ... and W. Wynn Westcott.

  • Martindale, William, 1840-1902.
Date:
1901
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    ANTITOXINS, VACCINES AND ANTITOXIC SERUMS, The discovery of the medicinal powers of the serum of animals which liave heen rendered immune to certain diseases has opened up a new somxe of therapeutic agents. Auiong the earliest experiments were those of Pasteur, who introduced an anti-rahic liquid as a cure for lijdrophobia; Koch, who tried the effects of a weakened virus for the treatment of phthisis ; Hericourt and Richet, who tried serum inoculations aud antitoxins for tuberculous diseases ; and Bro\\Ti-Sequard who proposed Orchitic Extract (Spermin) for nervous ail- ments and seoile decay. Behrmg aud Kitasalo extended the system to the treatmcut of diphtheria, and Cattani and Tizzoni to tetanus. In all these cases ot hypodermic injection a special syringe must be used, which admits of thorough steri- lizatioQ each time before use. A lecture read at the Pathological Society upon the general principles of aniifoxin treatment.—L. i./95,60i. Report of the .Vnnual iMeeting of llic British Medical Association contaiuiug discussion upon Scrum thera- peutics.—B.M..1. ii./95,406; L. ii./95,2S'.),355.374. Editorial article upon Serotherapy.—B.iM..T.ii./95,6ri.j. Serum ])reparatiou by Bcliring at Marburg.—P..T. ii./97,357. A notice of Serotherapy.—ii./97,736. On the urgent need for the recognition of a universal standard of strenglii for antitoxins, ami especially for those of diphtheria and tetanus.—L. ii./97,3'J4. In Italy a bill has liccn introduced to regulate the orms and qualities of lymphs and scrums.— B.M..1. Editorial on disease as treated by toxins and vcuins.— B.M.J. i./99,l111. Antitoxins : their jircparation, properties and admiuis- tratiou.—P.J i./99,108.