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...antibodies" produced by the injection of dead bacteria of the same disease. But the acid-fast germs are encased in or contain fatty cells called " lipoids," which resist digestion when injected into the body and thus generate no antibodies. Dreyer's idea is to pickle the serum consisting of dead tubercle bacilli in formalin, a solution of formaldehyde. This eats away the fatty cells of the tubercle bacillus, which can then be digested by the body juices, and calls forth a plentiful supply of the antibodies when injected. They in turn attack and destroy the living germs...
...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...
...when it is realized that diseases of the heart now cause a larger number of fatalities than any other single type of illness. Not long ago tuberculosis and pneumonia led all the rest, but medical research has now found means of fighting these, with fresh air, with oxygen, with serum, and by other more technical means, until the number of deaths recorded from each has become less and less. But on the other hand the recent cardioscope is merely the continuation of the idea of other inventions dealing with surgery of the chest. The cardiograph--an instrument for recording heart...
...which will be held in the Union this evening at 8 o'clock, Dr. Afranio Amaral will be the principal speaker. His lecture, which will be open to members of the University, will deal with "The Campaign Against Snake Poisoning in Brazil--An Account of the Work of the Serum Therapeutic Institute of Butantan Lao Paulo." Dr. Amaral will illustrate his talk with slides made from pictures taken in Brazil...