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...authoritative pronouncement on the most efficient medical measures for preventing syphilis and gonorrhea, and the ethical justification for their use. The committee contained some of the most distinguished and impartial names in England, including Lord Trevethin (former Lord Chief Justice) as Chairman, Dr. John Brownlee, Prof. Georges Dreyer, Sir William Leishman, Dr. J. H. Sequeira, Dr. Dorothy Hare and others. The report of the committee, just published, is unanimous, except for one man who early resigned, and should settle several questions which have long been acrimoniously debated, the most important being that of prophylaxis, or preventive treatment after exposure...
...Fildes and Dr. George T. Western, of the London Hospital, used the Dreyer treatment on human tuberculosis patients with " benefit obviously greater than from any other form of treatment in use." If the disease was not too far advanced, the patients improved in temperature and weight, tuberculous joints cleared up, tubercle glands in children diminished, ulcerations of lupus (a tuberculous skin disease) were healed. Dreyer and his colleagues caution against premature jubilations, but state that results so far are incontrovertible...
Professor Dreyer is the son of a Danish naval captain, and was born in Shanghai. He was educated at Copenhagen and Oxford, and has been a professor at Oxford since 1907. He is the author of The Assessment of Physical Fitness...
...Spahlinger treatment for tuberculosis (TiME, April 21) is still gaining adherents in Britain. Beyond the fact that it is a serum, little is known of its details, nor whether it resembles Dreyer's in principle. Spahlinger apparently objects to investigation until he can secure financial support. It is reported that the British Red Cross and the Ministry of Health may come...
...Wassermann's new serum (TiME, March 31) is not a method of immunization, like Dr. Dreyer's, but simply a blood test to determine the presence of active tuberculosis. Combined with a successful specific, it might cut the tuberculosis deathrate to the vanishing point...