BACTERIN TREATMENT. 



(1909), reports his use of the staphylococcus 



bacterins as a preventive of infection in sur- „ ^ . . 

 ^ Bactenn in 



gical work. He believes that by this method he Surgical Work. 

 has also prevented postroperative pneumonia. 



Many gratifying results have been reported 

 through the medical journals and hospital bul- 

 letins by scientific workers who use the bacter- 

 ins in their practice throughout the United 

 States and Canada. 



Other bacterins, the efficacy of which are 

 as yet not firmly established, are the Acne- 

 Bacterin and the Staphylo-Acne-Bacterin. Acne 

 These bacterins have been the cause of much ^<=**"'*- 

 interest owing to the work of Professor Flem- 

 ing, London, England, who is investigating 

 their usefulness in St. Mary's Hospital, Pad- 

 dington, W. 



THE NEISSER BACTERIN. 



(Gonococcic Vaccine.) 

 The treatment of gonorrheal infections by 

 "bacterial vaccines" is also a recent method, 

 and has been attended by considerable success. 

 Sir Almoth E. Wright demontsrated that sub- 

 cutaneous injections of killed pathogenic bac- 

 teria produce in the blood and tissue fluids of 

 the individual a substance (opsonin) which 

 combines with the corresponding infecting 

 organisms and so modifies them that the phag- 

 ocytes readily take them up and ingest them 

 (phagocytosis). The preparation of bacteria 

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