Vaccination and Whooping Cough
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To the Editor, The Indian Medical Gazette. Sir,?In the Medical Annual for 1931 it is stated that the paroxyms of whooping cough can be arrested by vaccination against small-pox, but since this method of treatment was recommended in the early part of the present century, it cannot be claimed as something new, but only as something forgotten and revived. Vaccination was recommended as a method of treatment in whooping cough under the impression that it produced a leucocytosis, and was by that means beneficial. There was then no familiar means of producing an artificial leucocytosis, and blood counts were done only by a few experts; hence the idea was but a conjecture. No virtue was attached to the vaccine.
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