Anti-Plague Vaccine in the Treatment of Plague
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venous injections of iodine in this disease has been recognized by previous workers, I used it as a routine measure, giving injections containing from 2 to 1? grs. In spite of these injections most patients showed severe constitutional disturbances within 48 hours of commencing treatment, with delirium and restlessness. Severe asthenia would set in about the third day of treatment, and the prognosis was bad. In my experience intravenous iodine, whilst of value in cases seen on the first day of disease, is of little value when a state of
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