Reprints of three editorials regarding the priority in demonstrating the toxic effect of matter accompanying the tubercle baccillus and its nidus.

  • Samuel Gibson Dixon
Date:
1890-1891
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Credit: Reprints of three editorials regarding the priority in demonstrating the toxic effect of matter accompanying the tubercle baccillus and its nidus. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    Reporter, September 6, 1890.] PREVENTIVE INOCULATIONS AGAINST TUBERCULOSIS. At the recent meeting of the Interna- tional Medical Congress, in Berlin, Dr. Robert Koch made an address in which he asserted that he had discovered a method by which animals ordinarily very suscep- tible to contract tuberculosis from inocu- lations of the bacillus were made capable of resisting such inoculations. The details of his method he did not make public. Stimulated apparently by this announce- ment, which is calculated to attract wide- spread attention, Drs. Grancher and Martin, of Paris, announced in the Bulletin Medical, August 20, 1890, that they also had de- vised a method by which these results could be obtained. In this number of the Reporter Professor Samuel G. Dixon, of Philadel- phia, presents a short article in which attention is called to the fact that a year ago—Medical News, Philadelphia, October
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