TUBERCULOSIS.
- ' AN IMPORTANT DISCOVERY. •iY CABLE—PBESS ASSOCIATION—COPYBIGHT , r „ , PARIS, June 26. M. Calmette (sub-director of the Pasteur Institute) read a paper at the Academy of Medicine on the discovery o 4 a method of innoculation. against tuberculosis, which greatly interested scientists. M. Calmette has been experimenting with preventive serums for many years and the results attained are regarded as an important discovery. It is emphasised that the serum has only preventive effects and is not applicable to those actually infected r. Ah consumption. The vaccine is corstiaS - b Ti 3 Specl , al kind of K °ch bacilli, artifieiallv in the flesh of a bullock’s bacilli i 1 - thls at tcnuation the f a f V loSe V ieir , P° wer to provoke the formation of tubercules. An experiment with calves proved that the hST* P i r °° f a " ainst virulent e.¥ht weir” J ' St '' ong Witl,in
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 27 June 1924, Page 5
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