SERUM AGAINST INFECTION
BRITISH DOCTOR’S DISCOVERY. Dr Claude Dolman, formerly house surgeon and research assistant at the institute of pathology and research of St. Mary’s Hospital, has succeeded, after two years’ study (says a Central News message from Toronto) in developing a staphylococcus septicaemia serum, producing immunisation against infection. Dr Dolman is at present working at the Connaught Laboratories of Toronto University, and local specialists consider the discovery as important as that of insulin. Our Medical Correspondent writes: Staphylococcus is one of the group, of bacteria responsible for the luajoi'ity of minor septic infections, such as boils. Although there have Deen. various vaccines against boils they lu'.ve had only limited success. Any serum or inoculation that promises immunity would represent a. great advance.
Before any definite pronouncement can be made, however, some time must elapse for experiment.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 27 June 1934, Page 8
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