PUERPERAL INFECTION
VALUE OF SALVARSAN BY TELEGRAPH.- PRES' ASSOCIATION. Copyright London, February 28 Following up Dr Colebrook’s and Captain S. R. Douglas’s wartime investigation into the possibility of salvarsan and newsalvarsan availing in the treatment of septicaemia, Dr. Colebrook has lately extended liis investigations to puerperal infections, lhe Medical Research Council publishes his report, which takes into account the possibility of a chemo-therapeutic agent defeating its own ends by concurrent poisoning of body cells. Summing up, he says that, although there is ground for believing that administration of these arsenicals sometimes leads to the destruction of streptococci, and assists the patient’s recovery, this should not be expected in all cases. Therefore, it is necessary that careful clinical tests should be carried out to determine precisely how much achievable,
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 130, 1 March 1928, Page 8
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128PUERPERAL INFECTION Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 130, 1 March 1928, Page 8
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