THE WHITE PLAGUE
NEW VACCINE DISCOVERED PREVENTATIVE BUT NOT A CURE Received June 26, 5.5 p.m. PARIS, June 26. M. Calmette, the sub-director of the Pasteur Institute, read a paper at the Academy of Medicine on the discovery of a method of inoculation against tuberculosis w r hich greatly interested scientists. M. Calmette has been experimenting with preventive serums amny 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 with consumption. The vaccine is constituted by a special kind of Koch bacilli, artificially attenuated by 230 successive cultures in the flesh of a bullock’s head. With this attenuation the bacilli loses the power to provoke the formation of tubercules. Experiments with calves proved the vaccine was proof against virulent bacilli, and sufficiently strong to kill within eight weeks.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXI, Issue 19048, 27 June 1924, Page 5
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