A plea for the more general use of tuberculin by the profession : being the address given at the Annual Meeting of the Dermatological Society of Great Britain and Ireland, May 24th, 1905 / by Dr. McCall Anderson, Regius Professor of Medicine in the University of Glasgow.

Thomas McCall Anderson

Date:: 1905

Credit: A plea for the more general use of tuberculin by the profession : being the address given at the Annual Meeting of the Dermatological Society of Great Britain and Ireland, May 24th, 1905 / by Dr. McCall Anderson, Regius Professor of Medicine in the University of Glasgow. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$Case 2. On March 20th, 1903, a young woman (Elizabeth Kennedy), aet. 24, was admitted at the Western Infirmary suffering for two years from an ailment which was supposed to be Hodgkin's disease, and which set in after her second confine- ment. She was weak, emaciated, and pallid, and had numerous glandular enlargements, varying m size from a pea to a pigeon's egg, around the neck, in the left axilla, and to a less extent in the right inguinal region, swellings which com- menced on the right side of the neck ; they were hard and painless, and some of them confluent. Examination of blood—Red corpuscles 4,850,000, whites 6,200 per cmm. The former exhibited no change of shape, and no abnormal forms were seen. They stained well and equally with eosin, and the haemoglobin equivalent was undisturbed. Leu- cocytes—Polymorpho-nuclear relatively diminished. Hyaline cells of both varieties (medium and large) increased : no abnormal forms {e.g. myelocytes, etc.). The changes were in accord with those met with in Hodgkin's disease, but similar conditions are met with in other diseases (malaria, etc.) [Ferguson]. I suspected that these glandular enlargements might be tubercular, and as a test ^ c.c. of i in 1000 tuberculin was injected, which in sixteen hours raised the temperature from 98.2° to 104°, while$