Medical Chronicle (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ...E., and Winterstein, E. Zeitschr. fiir physiol. Chem., xliii. 316 and 1906, xlviii. 546. 54. Stein, G. Inaug. Diss., Freiburg i. Br., 1905. 55. Thomas, R. Inaug. Diss., Strassburg, 1890. 56. Thorns. Archiv der Pharmacie., 1897, ccxxxv. 39. 57. Tonnies. Berichte, xx. 2982. 58. Tschirch. Ver. d. Ges. d. Naturforschr und Ante in Wien., 1894, 383. 59. Van der Velde. Bull. Soc. Chem. de Belgique, 1903, xix. 288. 60. Waldvogel. Milnchen. med. Wchnschr., 1906, liii. 402. 61. Walitzky. Berichte, 1876, ix. 1310. 62. Wallach. Liebig's Annalen der Chemie, cccxiii. 349. 63. Weyl. Archiv fiir Anat. u. Physiol., 1886, 182. 64. Windaus, A. Bab. Schrift, Freiburg i. Br., 1903. Berichte, 1903, xxxvi. 3752; 1904, xxxvii. 2027 and 4753; 1906. xxxix. 518; 2008; 2249; 4378; 1907, xl. 257; 2637; 3681. Chemiker. Zeitung, 1906, No. 82. 65. Woolridge. Archiv fiir Anat. u. Physiol.. 1881, 387. 66. Zwenger. Liebig's Annalen der Chem., 1848, Ixvi. 5; and 1849, Ixix. 347. THE MEDICAL CHRONICLE. A MONTHLY RECORD OF THE progress of fIDeoical Science. SOME PHASES OF TREATMENT BY SERUM. By Miles B. Arnold, M.D. (Mane.), D.P.H. (Cantab.). The treatment of disease in man by the administration of the normal or abnormal blood serum of other animals, whilst still a problem of great complexity from the purely scientific side, may be considered clinically as consisting of two questions--firstly, has the treatment the good results that are claimed for it? secondly, is it capable of doing harm? The first question I do not propose to discuss. In the case of diphtheria it is already decided by overwhelming evidence; in certain cases of septicaemia it has many times seemed to experienced observers that life has been saved by the use of serum. In some other diseases the balance of evidence...