AMERICAN CABLE NEWS.
[Australia A X.Z. Cable Association.] TUBERCULOSIS TRKAT.MENT. (Received this day at 10.0 a.m.) NEW YORK, November 23. Doctor William Park, Director of New. York Health Department Bureau of Laboratories, and Pro lessor ot bacteriology and hygiene, New 5 ork Medical College, announces that lollownig upon favourable results attained with oalmettc process ol emmiiuir.ation against tuberculosis upon rabbits, and guinea pigs, tests will tie conducted upon calves and monkeys. Ibis will 1,0 done with a view to introducing a method for treatment of children. Doctor l.eon Calmette, Assistant Director of the Pa-tcur Institute, de-vi.-od a process for iculatiiig babies three days after birth with a living strain of bovine tuberculosis germs, which had been weakened or aUontuatod through culture in equine or bovine bile. Calmette innociilated two thousand infants in antis and none contracted tuberculosis. Ihe need lor such in i tot'll In ti< m. which Doctor Park hopes will he practicable after a further year’s test. is especially emphasized is New York, where a considerable n uni her ol infants are horn every year in households where adults suffer I rom this disease.
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Hokitika Guardian, 23 November 1925, Page 3
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186AMERICAN CABLE NEWS. Hokitika Guardian, 23 November 1925, Page 3
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