Studies on immunisation and their application to the diagnosis and treatment of bacterial infections / [Wright].

  • Almroth Wright
Date:
1909
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    Rest in Bed, continued— Question whether is of any further value when auto-inoculations have been arrested, 298 RiMPAU— See Neufeld Rubefacients, 279, 354 RuppEL, 123, footnote S Sabouraud— Dictum of with respect to in- efficacy of antiseptics 319 Salivary Glands, 368 Infections of treated by vaccine- therapy, 268 See also Miculicz Disease Sandbags— Employment of hot for determin- ing a flow of blood to seat of infection, 280 Method of sterilizing the sand em- ployed, 280 (footnote) Savtschenko, 168, 187-188 Scabs on Infected Surfaces— Conditions which obtain where we have , 455 Septicaemia— Charts showing results vaccine-the- rapy in (a) streptococcic , 395-400 ; (6) staphylococcic , 401-403 See also Bacterial Infections (General- ized Infections) Serous Effusions, 345, 456 In connexion with micro-organisms which are not killed by blood fluids, constitute an ineffec- tive form of inflammatory reaction, 456 See also Tapping, Tuberculous Peri- tonitis, and]Nidus of Lowered Bac- teriotropic Pressure Serous Haemorrhage— Associated with diminished coagula- bility and diminished viscidity of the blood, 301 Author's suggestion that should be treated by exhibition of cal- cium salts, 302 Serum Diagnosis (an inferential as distinguished from a direct diagnostic method) Aims at detection of changes occurring in blood as result of auto-inocu- lation, 344 In absence of spontaneous auto-inocu- lation diagnosis can be arrived at by resort to artificially in duced auto-inoculation, 425, Chart 44, and 426-433 Table, Serum Diagnosis, continued— See Auto-inoculation Agglutinins, Opsonins, Thermostable Opsonins, and Absorption of Complement Sensibilitrice, Substance, 169 Serum Disease— Nature and pathology of , 301 Treatment of , 302 Serum-Therapy— Explanation of the failiu-e of in treatment of generalized bacterial infections as distingmshed from intoxications, 301 has been applied in generalized bacterial infections without pre- hminary trial in localized infec- tions, 321 Unjustified faith of profession in inno- cuousness and in utility of 302 Assiimptions underlying this faith, 303 Suggestion that a serima may not contain protective substances in sufficient concentration to be of clinical value, 305-306 Suggestion that the sera employed may contain unneutralized bacterial poisons, 306 Responsibility for the administration of such sera, 307 Method by which presence of bacterial elements in senmi can and ought to be tested before issue, 307- 308, 309 Evidence pointing to presence of toxic elements in sera issued for administration in treatment of plague, streptococcus infections, Malta fever, typhoid fever, tuber- culosis, hay fever, etc., 235, 237, 308- 309 Presence of these would be indicated by preliminary exacerbation and subsequent improvement in pa- tient's symptoms, 309 Suggestion that serum-therapy may in certain instances be vaccine- therapy in disguise, 309-316 This suggestion supported by obser- vations in connexion with speci- mens of anti-Malta fever serum, 312; anti-streptococcic serum, 312 ; Chantemesse's anti-typhoid serum, 312-316 ; and Marmorek's anti-tubercular serum, 316 (foot- note) Further criticisms of , 321, 322, 348 Sinuses— Conditions which prevail respectively in discharging sinuses and dry sinuses, 347, 459 Method of increasing the lymph flow