Rational immunisation in the treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis and other diseases / by E.C. Hort.

  • Hort, E. C.
Date:
1909
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    To conclude as I began, I submit:— 1. That when Nature cures infection she converts tissues and bacteria into auto-inoculating agents, and thereby incites both cellular and bacterial restraint. 2. That to provoke the last and ignore the first is too often to aim at half and expect the whole. 3. That, whenever practicable, auto-inoculation is the best method to employ when artificial aid is needed, and 4. That in thermometric charts and in measurements of the blood's inhibitory powers we have most useful gauges of presence or absence of many kinds of stimulus and response. Full conviction I can hardly hope to carry on the slender evidence here produced, but the attempt will not be fruitless if the attention of makers of modern Medicine be for a moment diverted to issues other than the merely bacterial. I wish to express my thanks to the following gentlemen, whose courtesy has enabled me to collect from their respective hospitals much of the clinical material that forms the groundwork of this paper : Mr. J. E. Lane, at the Lock Hospital; Sir Hugh Beevor, at the Victoria Park Chest Hospital; Mr. C. H. Leaf, at the Cancer Hospital; Sir Malcolm Morris, at the Seamen's Hospital; Mr. Lenthal Cheatle, at King's College Hospital; and Dr. Daman, at the Lincoln Hospital. I also wish to express my indebtedness to Dr. Eolleston and to Mr. Cheatle for their great assistance in preparing this manuscript, and to Dr. Venning for continuous help in collection of the various serums referred to, and in many other ways, and in particular to Dr. GoUa, for his unfailing and generous help. Finally, I wish to convey my deep obligation to the anonymous philanthropist whose single-minded devo- tion to the highest aims of medical research has made this preliminary enquiry possible. 8, Harley Street Mwrch, 1909. 10
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