A LUPUS CASE AT THE HOSPITAL.
At the Christchurch Hospital yesterday afternoon a woman, aged 47, who was recently sent down from Kaiapoi to be treated for lupus, was given an injection of Dr. Koch's tuberculine. The disease is in an advanced stage, being ulcerated, and the woman's face and arms are affected. Lupus, it may be mentioned, is consumption in the skin. The lymph was procured from Auckland by Dr. Ovenden, and the dose injected was three milligrams, diluted 100 times with _ per cent, of carbolic and _ of distilled water. The injection was given hypodermically by the aid of a Koch's syringe, which has previously been described. The dose given, it may be mentioned, is much larger than is used for an ordinary case of consumption. It was anticipated that reaction would set in about four hours from the time the injection was fiven. The operation was performed by >rs. Ovenden and Harrison (the acting house surgeon of the Hospital). In the evening a slight reaction had set in.
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Press, Volume XLVIII, Issue 7870, 22 May 1891, Page 6
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