CONSUMPTION.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 842, 14 June 1910, Page 5

CONSUMPTION.

TUBERCULIN CURATIVE METHOD. FOR THE POOE. .iy Telegraph—Prese Association-GopyrlEht London, June 9. Dr. Wm. Camac Wilkinson (the wellknown Sydney doctor and University lecturer) is establishing a tuberculin dispensary at Lambeth. He says his consumption treatment has been successful in Australia. Six months' treatment costs a pound;, therefore, unlike sanatoria, it is applicable to the poorest person. Mr. Cyril Maude (the proprietor of "Tho Playhouse," London, and one of London's most popular comedy actors) states that Dr. Wilkinson cured his (Mr. Maude's) brother in Australia. Mr. Maude has promised to give a benefit matinee at "Tho Playhouse," Charing Cross. ■ Sir Barjtle Frere, D.5.0., supports the scheme. DR. WILKINSON'S METHOD. Tuberculin is defined as "a fluid containing the products formed by the growth of hiborcule bacillus—a minute vegetable organism discovered by Koch in the sputum of consumptive patients and in tuberculous tissue, and believed to be the exciting cause of tuberculosis—in a suitable culture medium, i.e., cultivated for the special purposes of medical scionce." The tuberculin tTeatment, which dates from Koch, is not new, but Dr. Wilkinson's application of it is different to most others, in that ho uses bovine tuberculin in considerable quantities. It is injected under the sub-cutaneous tissue where it joins the blood-stream. Dr. William Camac Wilkinson was born at Enfield, New South Wales, and was educated at Sydney University and Loudon University. In 1901 ho became a lecturer (on the Principles and Practice of Medicine) at Sydney University. He was for a time assistant demonstrator in anatomy at University College, London, and acted as president of the Pathological Section at the Intercolonial Medical Conference in 1888. His publications include "Nature and Prevention of Consumption," "Tuberculin as a Diagnostic Agent," "The Climate of the Coast of Now South Wales in its Relation to Pulmonary Tuberculosis and Influenza," and, "The Role of the City Dispensary in tne Crusade Against Consumption.'