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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 47, 20 November 1918, Page 7

The use.of vaccine in the treatment of influenza was referred to on Sunday evening by Dr. J. P. Frengley, states the |4New' Zealand Herald." JTe said that the genii which had been isolated by the' [Government -Bacteriologist at AYellington and [by Dr. Chuniptaloup at Dunedin, was .identical'with one which had been discovered in Australia. Tho same germ had been observed by doctors in various! riarts of: the world. The suggestion had been made that a vaccine prenared front these microbes could be used on nati-. ,'ents with 'beneficial effect. He had- refnivpcl a supply of the vaccines from Welfi.iHon last week, and had handed it to Dr. 1 Jlagiiire, but his own opinion, which was ■supported by the medical snpprintendent of the hospital and - other doctors, was that those treating influenza ■patients could not take upon themselves, to experiment with the-Vaccine. Tt was not'known, for instance, what qnaiitiiy 'shouMJie riven or how often to give. ; t. Hp considered the. vaccine could onlv he w-'ed Safely after closply observing its ■ effect in n large series' of cases, and this wuild take a very Ion? time. It had' taken many years to arrive at a at which vaccine for typhoid .tad smallpox' cases could safely be used.