Immunity, Protective Inoculations in Infectious Diseases and Serum-Therapy (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Immunity, Protective Inoculations in Infectious Diseases and Serum-Therapy The following quotations from a paper, entitled "Practical Results of Bacteriological Researches, " read by the writer at the meeting of the Association of American Physicians, May 24, 1892, may serve as a preface to the present volume: "Science does nut demand practical results, but investigates for the purpose of establishing facts and explaining phenomena. And bacteriology, as a branch of natural history, is entitled to equal consideration with other departments of scientific research. Indeed, the low organisms known as bacteria offer many advantages for the study of fundamental biological problems, and the researches already made have borne abundant fruit from a scientific point of view. "But medicine is eminently practical in its aims, and practising physicians, as well as intelligent laymen, are apt to meet every announcement of a new discovery in pathology with the question, 'Does it aid in the cure of disease?' Heretofore the bacteriologist has been compelled to admit that the demonstration of the specific cause in a considerable number of infectious diseases, which has been obtained through his researches, has not resulted in the discovery of a specific treatment for these diseases. At the present moment we are in possession of experimental data which open up to us a vista of possibilities in specific treatment unsuspected a year or two ago. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.