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DR. SPAHLINGER RELEASES DISCUSSED SECRET FORMULA. FORTUNE D.ISSIPATED. LONDON, Friday. Dr. Spahlinger, around whose claim to have discovered an antitubercle vaccine, controversy has raged for years, has now despatched his secret formula to leading British scientific bodies. The Marquis of Crewe, in making the announcement, said he hoped that publication of the formula would put an end to adverse criticism of M. Spahlinger. Sir Frederick Maurice said that the cost of supplying the vaccine was now 2s eompared with £2 when the experiments began; but M. Spahlinger's family fortune of £100,000 had been dissipated, and had necessitated the advancing of funds on the security of the formula, , j The release of the formula is due ' to the generosity of the Aga Khan, j : the 'Dulce of Westminster, and others. . 1 M. Spahlinger had provided a bo- , vine vaccine for the immunisation of , 1 cattle and a harmless vaccine for j liuman beings. During 15 'years tests _ had established the efficacy of the bovine vaccine, and the prineiples under1 lying the application of it were applicable to other diseases besides tuber- j culosis. New Method Sir Bruce Bruce-Porter, the eminent physician, said that the vaccine contained no liver micro-organism. i It therefore entailed no risks. M. j Spahlinger grew tubercle bacilli in an i environment identical with that in diseased bodies. After that he established conditions "resulting in the natural death of the bacilli, which j thereby retained their chemical anl ! physical structure, making them effective vaccinating agents. Hitherto, the material for the preparation of vaccines had been isolated, with subsequent culture on artificial media differing from their original environment, thus altering the character of the bacillus and rendering the vaccine so prepared valueless to deal with disease in the animal or group | from which the bacillus was originally taken. Publication of the formula enabled anyone to reproduce the method.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 149, 16 February 1932, Page 2
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