FIGHTING TUBERCULOSIS.
THE CALMETTE PROCESS. SUPPLY FOR DOMINION. Christchurch, Nov. 25. Dr. Blackmore, superintendent of Cashmere Sanatorium, has written to Dr Leon Calmette, of Paris, asking for a supply of his vaccine. Dr. Leon Calmette, assistant director of the Pasteur Institute, Paris, devised a process of inoculating babies three days after birth with the living strain of bovine tuberculosis germs which had been weakened or attenuated through culture in equine or bovine bile (stated a cable on Monday hist). Dr Calmette inoculated 2000 infants in Paris and none contracted tuberculosis.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XV, Issue 202, 25 November 1925, Page 3
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90FIGHTING TUBERCULOSIS. Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XV, Issue 202, 25 November 1925, Page 3
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