Serums, vaccines and toxines in treatment and diagnosis / by Wm. Cecil Bosanquet ... and John W.H. Eyre.
- William Cecil Bosanquet
- Date:
- 1909
Licence: In copyright
Credit: Serums, vaccines and toxines in treatment and diagnosis / by Wm. Cecil Bosanquet ... and John W.H. Eyre. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![M'Bride 1 also is favourably disposed towards the use of the serum. He concludes that Dunbar has definitely succeeded in isolating the toxine of the disease and in producing an antitoxine capable of neutralising it. It is doubtful, however, whether it is the pollen of grasses alone which is responsible for the disease, and therefore whether we possess in the serum an antidote to all forms of hay- fever. Some persons suffer from a similar catarrhal con- dition if they are exposed to the smell of horses or cats, and it is evident that the serum prepared from pollen cannot be expected to act beneficially in such cases. Knight- collected 21'J cases in which the serum was used ; of these 114 show great improvement and 66 slighter benefit. Thost3 also confirms Dunbar’s results, but points out that in all cases of hay-fever there is a certain element of nerve-weakness, which cannot be influenced by the serum ; while the cases which are complicated by morbid local conditions will need appropriate treatment for these, as well as the specific i-emedy. Weichardt1 points out that in many cases the serum may do good at first, but is afterwards not tolerated. We have seen a certain number of instances in which it seemed to afford relief, but seldom, if ever, a result that could be de- scribed as a cure. Nevertheless the remedy is well worthy of trial in severe cases of the affection. Autumn catarrh.—In the United States of America there is a form of hay-fever, known as “autumn catarrh,” which appears in the autumn, at a time when there is no pollen from rye in the air. It seems necessary to suppose that these cases are due to a different cause. Dunbar 3 has investigated some of the plants which might be responsible 1 Edinburgh Med. Journ., 1903, ii. 7. - Med. Record, Mar. 10, 1906. 3 Munch, med. JFoeh., June 9,1903. Cf. Liibbert, Thera,]). Monatsh., Dec., 1904. 4 Abstr. Ccntralbl./. Baht., 1906, xxxviii. 493.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28072741_0342.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
