EFFECTIVE VACCINE
Test Made on Calves SPAHLINGER REPORT London, December 9. The report of the committee which experimented for a long time with the Spahlinger vaccine for the immunisation of cattle against tuberculosis was issued at a meeting at which the Aga Khan presided. The report states that the treatment gave calves strong resistance to the disease, even after doses of virus sufficient to kill unvaccinated calves within a month.
During the years he has spent in research directed against tuberculosis Spahlinger has been both extravagantly praised as a unique benefactor of mankind and bitterly condemned as a fraud and humbug. In 1928 a strong attack on him and the work carried on at his Swiss sanatorium was made at Geneva, when it was suggested that he had charg ed exorbitant prices to English patients without offering them any great measure of benefit. Said a speaker: “The enterprise throughout the world is reputed to be a huge swindle. The Pasteur Institute considers him a charlatan.” Spahlinger’s experiments always have been along the lines of securing vaccine from apimals. Some time ago a committee was appointed to investigate his claims and gauge the extent of his progress.
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Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 66, 11 December 1930, Page 11
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