The tuberculin treatment of consumption / by H. Vaughan Barber.

  • Barber, H. Vaughan.
Date:
1912
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Credit: The tuberculin treatment of consumption / by H. Vaughan Barber. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    wholly invisible to the naked eye, find a lodgment in the smaller bronchial tubes, multiply by fission, set up local irritation, and secrete a toxic product called tuberculin. It is the poisonous nature of this product which does the real mischief. Intensely irritating, it destroys the vitality of the tissues en- casing it, and brings about ulceration and consolidation. But this advanced stage is not always reached. Nature has provided an antidote, which in strong, healthy people will commonly effect a cure. Directly tuberculin is brought into contact with living tissue it sets up a reaction, which results in the formation of “antibodies”; these unite with the tuberculin and render it inert; the de- structive process is brought to an end, and the patient recovers. ‘This explains the fact that so many thousands of people are exposed to the infection and
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