New serum-therapy / [D. Montgomerie Paton].

  • Paton, D. Montgomerie.
Date:
1906
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Credit: New serum-therapy / [D. Montgomerie Paton]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    SIMPLE PLASMATA CHAPTER XXVI DEFICIENT NUTRITION—NON-MICROBIC ORIGIN As already stated, the oral use of simple plasma is of value only in lowered nutrition. This may arise from many causes, but as far as experience with plasma has gone, its action is limited to lowered nutrition arising from infections, to which the animal supplying the blood is itself specially refractory, and to those cases of non-microbic origin due to what may be defined as traumatic causes. Outside of this the plasma acts well in the lowered vitality sometimes found in children, and frequently and generally in old people. Its action on the digestion in the cases in which it is suitable is very marked, but it would be a mistake to infer from this that all cases of deficient digestion come within the range of the therapeutic power of plasma. Whatever is the cause, many of those dyspeptic cases—non-microbic, as far as is known— do not respond to the plasma of the horse or sheep. Further experience in this is required, and it may be found that the plasma of the ox may help to solve some of these problems. The ox is resistant to influenza, to which the others are susceptible, and the stomach condition in influenza differs
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