Vaccine therapy in general practice / by George H. Sherman, M.D.

  • Sherman, George H. (George Henry), 1858-
Date:
1911
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Credit: Vaccine therapy in general practice / by George H. Sherman, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    EARLY PERSONAL EXPERIENCES. I have been in the general practice of medicine for twenty-seven years having come into practice just when medical thought was on the dividing line between the old conception and the new, when aseptic surgery was not yet in general use. I well remember seeing the first aseptic operations performed in Mercy Hospital and .ilichael Reese Hospital of Chicago. I have been in practice long enough to see the awful results of diphtheria before we had antidiphtheric serum and was one of the first to use it in Detroit, having used some of Behring's imported serum before the domestic product could be obtained. After seeing the brilliant results with antidiphtheric serum I became a serum enthusiast and, like many an- other, expected that other infectious diseases could be treated in the same manner. I used some antitubercle serum and have also had an extensive experience with antistreptococccus serum. Sometimes the results seemed brilliant and at other times negative. I read three papers before three differ- ent medical societies on the use of antistreptococcus serum in articular rheumatism. In acute cases my re- sults with this remedy were generally good. In sub- acute and chronic cases the results were good if the case could be cured before the patient became sensitized