Treatment of bacterial diseases / [Sheridan Delépine].

  • Auguste Sheridan Delépine
Date:
[1891?]
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    for, it was argued, it was as well for the other children to have the fever also and be done with it as soon as possible. Since this has been done under the influence of a popular belief, I think I am justified in suspecting that the practice of inducing measles for protective purposes is far from un- common, although not generally carried out by professional men.^ Boeck and Sperino introduced about 1854 the prac- tice of syphilisation, and these authors recognise clearly that this method is not only a prophylactic, but also a truly therapeutical one. The inducement of a certain disease in order to prevent its recurrence, and even to modify the course of an attack, was therefore a method early recognised in this century both in connexion with smaU-pox and syphilis. 2. Refractory state produced by inoculation of an- allied disease less fatal, or of the disease modified by passage through another animal.—Qext&m country people had early suspected that a disease affecting cows was communicable to man, and that individuals thus affected were not so liable as other people to small-pox. History tells us that an English farmer and a German schoolmaster in the course of the last century, under the influence of that belief, had resorted to inoculation of that cow disease in preference to the inoculation of true variola. Jenner was the first medical man who discovered the immense importance of these traditional beliefs and practices, and after devoting all his energy to the study of the subject became so con- vinced of the value of the method of vaccination that after a long struggle he has succeeded in convincing others, and \ r' ^^P^'anza, and Katona have actually inoculated measles. - 1 he same principle has been applied in the Ti/phu, contaaienr of cattle Si;:s::B:?s;to^'-^ ^^^^^^^ - ^^^^^^^-^^r!^^^