Year: 1908
Type: article
Abstract: Autointoxication and inanition are the Scylla and Charybdis of a typhoid patient, and the physician who can pilot the charge through the narrow channel of safety, should be accorded a high degree of therapeutic skill. For the treatment of typhoid fever a specific remedy has not been discovered, and the consensus of opinion is that medicines have but little more than a contributory effect in the management of this disease. So the drug treatment may be eliminated altogether from this discussion. The process of using bacterial vaccines for hastening the process of immunization by increasing the phagocytic property of the blood, thus raising the opsonic index, a process which also takes place in a normal case of typhoid fever, is rational and scientific and deserves a more extended application. In other words, the processes of Nature are expedited by this method.
Source: JAMA
Author: R. M. HARBIN
Language: English
Subfield: Food Science
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2071056865