Vaccine-therapy.

  • Dwinell, William Grout, 1878-
Date:
1911
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Credit: Vaccine-therapy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    failed to find a constant organism as the cause of this disease and reports indifferent results. In five cases of hay fever which reported for treat- ment last October the micrococcus catarrhalis was pres- ent in all in the nasal secretion and vaccines gave marked relief. Bordet describes a cocco-bacillus in pertussis, Gram negative, non-motile, growing in three days on blood agar. Freeman has inoculated about 100 children suf- fering from the disease with encouraging results. Vaccine Therapy as an Adjunct to Surgery. Surgery and vaccine therapy must go hand in hand. Surgery has need of vaccines in preventing and heal- ing infections. Vaccine Therapy is dependent upon surgery to open localized foci and establish drainage. Deaver, DaCosta, Pfeiffer and others agree that vac- cines are efficient in only early cases of streptococcus septicemia. Staphylococcus septicemia yields readily to vaccine treatment with autogenous vaccines in all stages. Septic intoxications, without demonstrated blood invasion in a majority of cases display general and local improvement under the use of vaccines. Lo- calized and persistent suppurating lesions are markedly benefited by vaccines. Preventive inoculations in surgery give as brilliant results as in medical diseases. We know that the pathogenic bacteria most to be feared in the intestinal canal are streptococcus and colon, rarely pneumococ-