Serums, vaccines and toxines in treatment and diagnosis / by Wm. Cecil Bosanquet ... and John W.H. Eyre.
- William Cecil Bosanquet
- Date:
- 1909
Licence: In copyright
Credit: Serums, vaccines and toxines in treatment and diagnosis / by Wm. Cecil Bosanquet ... and John W.H. Eyre. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![units every 3 hours until the severity of the symptoms diminishes. On the other hand, some authorities recommend the use of small doses for treatment. Thus Musser 1 advises that children from G to 8 years old should receive only 500 units, while those over 8 should have 1,000, repeated if necessary in S to 12 hours. GefFrier and Rozet2 also recommend that small doses should he used ; and these writers do not advise the use of prophylactic injections, on account of their occasional had effects. Dose op Difhtheuiai, Antitoxic Serum (in Units) Recommended v,\ Various Wiuteus Author. C'ohn 3 Baginsky 4 Bishop 5 Rudolph n Berg 7 Pexa 8 Fischer 9 Souza 10 McCollom Rolleslon12 Ihrahim ]3 Wesener14 Aaser 15 Mild Case. Average Case. 1,000 1,500 f 2,000 (adult) |4,0C0 (child) 2,< CO 4,000 3,000-12,000 4,000 3,000 repeatd. 3,000 repeatd. 3,000 .5,000 7,000 8,000 repeatd. 12,000-18,000 Severe Case. Prophylaxis. 1,500-2,000 5,COO 12,000 (max.) 10,000 12,000 iepd. 18,000-24,000 (repeated) 300-500 250-500 300-100 3C0-400 1 University Med. Magazine (Philadelphia), March, 1900. 2 Arch, de Med. des Enfants, Feb., 1900. 3 Mitt. a. d. Grenzgeb. d. Med. u. Chir., Bd. xiii., Hit. 4 and 5. 4 Berlin. Iclin. Woch., 1908, p. 1257. 5 Brit. Med. Journ., 1907, ii. 1528. e Brit. Med. Journ., May 9, 1903. ' Med. Record, Nov. 26, 1904. 8 Abstr. Centralbl. f. inn. Med., 1905, p. 975. 0 Med. Record, 1901, Ixvi. 875. 1,1 Gnz. dos Hospitaha do Torto, Aug., 1907. Med. Record, he. cit. n Practitioner', 1904, lxxiii. 015 el sen Bent, mcd, Woch., Mar. 1G, 1905. Munch, mcd. Woch., 1905, No. 12. 13 Berlin. Iclin. Woch., Sept., 1905.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21507594_0107.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
