ANTHRAX IMMUNE SERUM. 527 



tion, some of the cases being severe infections in which 

 the prognosis would otherwise have been very unfavor- 

 able. The duration of the disease was always very 

 much shortened and all recovered. 



Lazaretti 1 reports 23 cases of human infection with 

 bacterium anthracis in which Sclavo's immune serum 

 was employed with recovery in each case. Another 

 patient, suffering from chronic alcoholism and malaria, 

 did not recover. 



1 Lazaretti : Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift f. offeutliche Gesuudheits- 

 pflege, 1903, Bd. 35, Supplement, p. 253. 



