ANTIGEN

New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11657, 23 October 1923, Page 8

ANTIGEN

FOR TUBERCULOSIS

TESTS IN NEW SOUTH WALES

Professor Droyer's vaccine—an antigen—lor the treatment of tuberculosis is being tried at Waterfall. Sanatorium, New South Wales. About 200 patients aro receiving injections, but, according i to an official statement, it will bo some considerable time before the department will be able to arrive at any definite conclusions, based upon its experiments, a« to tho value of the vaccine. The Health Department iff not at tho present juncture prepared to recommend it, pending its thorough trial. Inquiries yesterday indicate that the medical prolession generally favour the fair trial of the discovery, because of | the fact that it opens up a. new concep- | tion of immunity processes in the treatment of a disease which is taking a tragic toil of life. According to one representative member of the medical profession in Sydney, the work that ; has been done in England along tho ! lines of Professor Dreycr’s discovery is ! of a most promising character, but’, at* the same time, lie says, it is yet too early to 6tate whether it will have the results which are claimed for it. The work of Professor Dreycr ill this important field of investigation is being watched with close interest by tho medical profession. The fact that in the Commonwealth alone close on 3000 deaths occurred last year from pulmonary tuberculosis invests with interest , the work of any recognised man, which has for its Object the successful treatment of a terrible scourge. ! Professor Georges Dreyer. who has been frequently referred to lately in tho medio-al P'ress in different parts of the world, Tv as born at Shanghai, and is the son of Captain G. IT. N. Dreyer, of the Danish Royal Navy. Carrying tho degrees of M.A.. Oxou., and U.D.. Copenhagen, lie has been Professor of l’hthology at Oxford University since 1|)07. He is also a Fcllmv of Lincoln College, Oxford, and of the Royal Danish Academy of Letters and Sciences. Professor Droyer’s publications include numerous papers on immunity and experimental pathology, and the . bio-chcmical effect of light rays.