The medical treatment of typhoid fever / by James Stewart.
- Stewart, James, 1847-1906
- Date:
- 1899
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The medical treatment of typhoid fever / by James Stewart. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![DISCUSSION ON TYPHOID FEVER. THE MEDICAL TREATMENT OF TYPHOID FEVER.* BY JAMES STEWART, M.D., Professor of Medicine and Clinical Medicine, McGill University ; Physician to the Royal Victoria Hospital. As yet we are not able to speak of a specific treatment of typhoid. We are unable to destroy or counteract the typhoid bacilli, or prevent or even limit the effect of their toxins in the human subject. The results obtained by immunizing and curative inoculations in hydro- phobia, tetanus, and diphtheria, have naturally led to a search for similar antitoxic principles in typhoid. Hammerschlag and v. Jaksch liave reported a number of eases treated by serum taken from convales- cent typhoid patients. Beumer, Peiper, Klemperer, and Levy have obtained a serum by treating dogs with gradually increasing doses of bouillon cultures of typhoid bacilli, which was found sufficient to immunize suscejitible animals, such as mice and guinea-pigs. With these measures they were also able to effect a cure some time after infection had been induced. They tried the serum in a few cases of typhoid in the human subject, but with no definite result, except perhaps, to show tliat it could be used without inducing any unpleasant or dangerous symptoms. Other interesting work of this character has been carried out with tlie serum of convalescents and immunized animals, ])ut tbe result, altbougb aiiparently effective in tlie disease as it is met with in susceptible animals, still has been disappointing when applied to counteract the disease in the human subject. In this connection T will refer to a form of treatment which is very old, but has lately been revived by a few physicians in the United Slates * Rfiad before the Montreal Medico-Cbinircical Society, Jaimury 2.3, IROf).](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22368139_0005.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
