TUBERCULOSIS
A DISAPPOINTING ASSERTION
(Received October 10, 9.34 p.m.) PARIS, October 10.
Professor Bsmbeim, addressing .'the International Congress 'on Tuberculosis, now sitting at Paris, asserted that Professor Behring’s serum produces no effect on a tuberculosis patient or on an animal.
The moat important feature of the International Congress on Tuberculosis in 1905 was a paper read by Professor Behring, who claimed that he had found a new reonfdy for tuberculosis. The curative principle was, he said, derived from the tubercle bacillus, but it acted on the living cells of the organism, not on the serum of the blood or the fluids of the body.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 6027, 11 October 1906, Page 7
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