PROPHYLACTIC INOCULATION AGAINST PNEUMONIA

Concerning Inoculation against Plague and Pneumonia

Results of Prophylactic Inoculation against Pneumococcus in 12,519 Men

1. From a study of the agglutinins and protective power of the serum of 42 persons vaccinated against the pneumococcus, Types I, II, and III, it is demonstrated that a definite immune response has been secured to Types I and II by the dose of vaccine employed. Little evidence of response to Type III can be demonstrated by these methods, but this is of less significance in that in animals it is ...

Inoculation as a Prophylactic of Cholera

or modes, whose results are the symptoms we call cholera. Thirty years ago I published in India, and very often since, that at certain recurrent periods almost any change might lead to the evolution of cholera, I viewed cholera as having evolved in the natives of India, owing to the inherent weakness of their vitality, or, in chemical language, that the molecular bonds of the protop asm of the ...

The Prophylactic Value of Inoculation against Influenza from the Experience of an Epidemic at Khulna Jail

who were subsequently attacked. The formula of the vaccine now employed in the Army, and also by the Ministry of Health, has been increased from 60 millions as regards the B. influenza, with streptococci 80 millions and pneumococci 200 millions in 1 c.c. (article influenza)." Sir W. Leishman's observation regarding the subject can be summarised from his article published in the Lancet, 1920, i,...

Prophylactic immunization of humans against rabies by intradermal inoculation of human diploid cell culture vaccine.

The antirabies human diploid cell vaccine produced by 1'Institute Merieux, Lyon, France, was administered intradermally to 35 high-risk volunteers using 0.2-ml amounts and various immunization schedules. Three groups never before vaccinated against rabies developed virus-neutralizing antibodies, the titer of which was dose dependent. A single injection stimulated the formation of antibodies. Fo...