Some considerations in regard to acute obstructive diseases of the lungs / by Andrew H. Smith.

  • Smith, Andrew H. (Andrew Heermance), 1837-1910.
Date:
1890
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Credit: Some considerations in regard to acute obstructive diseases of the lungs / by Andrew H. Smith. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    September 6, i5 PREVENTIVE INOCULATION'S’ AGAINST TUBERCULOSIS. At the recent meeting of the International Medical Congress, in Berlin, Dr. Robert Koch made an address in which he asserted that he had discovered a method by tvhich animals ordinarily very susceptible to con- tract tuberculosis from inoculations of the bacillus were made capable of resisting such inoculations. The details of his method he did not make public. Stimulated apparently by this announcement, which is calculated to attract widespread attention, Drs. Gran- cher and Martin, of Paris, announced in the Bulletin Medical, August 20, 1890, that they also had devised a method by which these results could be obtained. In this number of the Reporter Professor Samuel G. Dixon, of Philadelphia, presents a short article in which attention is called to the fact that a year ago—October 19, 1889 —he had proposed the lines upon which pre- ventive inoculations against tuberculosis might be expected to be successfully carried out, and that he had already succeeded in a certain number of instances in pro- ducing immunity against the disease in animals. This announcement antedates by so much the announcements of Koch, and Grancher and Martin, that American medi- cal men must feel an interest in maintaining the priority which belongs to this country. In this particular matter it may be pointed out that Dr. Dixon in his announcement gives some indications as to the method by which he obtains the attenuated virus used in his experiments. Intimations of this sort are totally lacking in the communications of Koch, Grancher and Martin.