INFANT TUBERCULOSIS
Professor , : Fe'er, , of;:; Heidelbetg Uiiiversitv has carried , out'several .'hundred experiments' with a new. serum 'discovered ' by Professor Paquot,.;of Vienna,, and ; has. obtained, striking results The ; ..expenments .i.prpyed; exclu- ; sively -that the -seram'enables. tubercplnsis in I young children to .bo :■ diagnosed " with ceri patient is. inoculated with the serum,, ar,d ;-.]f culosis. ln ' a ny i degrop,'.i'^' J .s])ot.s' appca'r' : on the slun where it has,been inoculated'within foKours! ;^ in S-{rom sbrto.twenty. . Ono t 7 c«t advantago'of the aVquct serum is that it does not .causo W-or other • desirable effects,pn.thd ~,tiontsi and infants already snffeni.fi ..from fever ', caii bo safe v inoculated. Feer'; I,'aSimr hi opinion on thr rxpcribnco pn'ned m 3/4 cases, declares thai: Trofdssor-Eaqucl's seruni .is a valuaHo. means diagnosing tuber culosis in infants. b " L V-
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 115, 7 February 1908, Page 8
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129INFANT TUBERCULOSIS Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 115, 7 February 1908, Page 8
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