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T. B. ROGERS. 
SERUM TREATMENT OF INFECTIOUS PNEUMONIA. 
By T. B. Rogers, D. V. S., Woodbury, N. J. „ 
Lately the writer has treated seven cases of infectious pneu¬ 
monia with the anti-pneumococcic serum. The results warrant 
him in laying the matter before the profession. 
In a stable of five heavy draught horses one of them developed 
this disease. It ran a typical course ; almost complete consolida¬ 
tion of one lung, with temperature running between i05°to io6°F. 
for nearly a week, the patient then passing into a tardy though un¬ 
complicated convalescence. He was treated in the routine manner 
by antipyretics (acetanilid), aconite, then strychnia and whiskey. 
The next case ran three days with a like elevation and 
under like treatment. He then received 25 c.c. of the pneumo¬ 
nia antitoxin. The next day his temperature was ioi° F., and 
it remained there. The lung consolidation disappeared quickly 
and the convalescence was hastened. 
The third case when first seen had a temperature of nearly x 
106° with some pleuritis, moving with difficulty and evincing 
much pain on motion. He received 25 c.c. of anti-pneumo¬ 
coccic serum at 4 p. m. At the same hour next day he was 
much better, stiffness and pain disappearing, pulse more com¬ 
pressible and respiration eased. He was given a second dose 
of 25 c.c., and in twenty-four hours his temperature dropped to 
ioo|, the other symptoms being in like degree ameliorated. 
He got well and returned to work very quickly. 
In the other cases the recoveries were equally rapid and un¬ 
eventful. I may add that all received in addition to the anti¬ 
toxin a drachm of acetanilid, with sufficient aconite to keep the 
pulse soft, three times daily, this being followed as the condi¬ 
tion changed by one-quarter grain doses of strychnia pro re nata y 
and half teacup of sound whiskey in each pail of water. I may 
add that only one of the second series got more than one dose 
of the serum. In each case the serum was quickly absorbed \ 
in twenty-four hours there was absolutely 110 infectious oedema. 
Now, one swallow doesn’t make a summer, but I think 
