MASTERING THE MICROBE 



ply inoculations of staphyloccocus vaccine no less 

 than of tuberculin. 



Similarly in pneumonia, half a dozen bacteria may 

 be found associated with the pneumococcus. 



But these complications may not be dwelt on here. 

 Suffice it that the general method of vaccine therapy, 

 as developed by Sir Almroth Wright and his as- 

 sociates, has taken its place in spite of ardent opposi- 

 tion as a remedial method of extraordinary promise. 



It should be added that the method has proved in 

 practice to have possibilities of application lying be- 

 yond what even its originator hoped for it. Wright 

 himself expressly declared, as recently as 1903, that 

 we cannot hope to apply the method to the treatment 

 of general infections that are already under way. 

 That is to say, he felt that the utility of the vaccine 

 treatment in such a disease as typhoid must consist 

 in preventive inoculations rather than in remedial 

 applications in cases of typhoid already developed. 



Yet we find that a large number of physicians 

 recently have used the anti-typhoid vaccine in cases 

 of developed disease, and seemingly with the most 

 gratifying results. Many such cases are detailed in 

 an article in the Medical Record of June 24, 1911. 

 This phase of the treatment still has controversial 

 aspects, however, and involves matters too technical 

 for discussion here. 



THE GREATEST ACHIEVEMENT OF CURATIVE SCIENCE 



A writer in the same medical journal under date 

 of June 3, 1911, says : "The value of Wright's vac- 

 cines in the treatment of various infections is now 



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