Bacterial Vaccine Therapy

Abstract

"If at the present time ten years of public notoriety have passed over any doctrine professing to be of importance in medical science, and if it has not succeeded in raising up a powerful body of able, learned, and ingenious advocates for its claims, the fault must be in the doctrine and not in the medical profession." This old criterion of Holmes is applicable to bacterial vaccine therapy this year, for though Fraenkel's work dates back a quarter of a century and Wright's fifteen years, in this country it was not until about ten years ago that any great degree of notoriety attached to the subject. The profession generally was about to grant vaccine therapy, at least autogenous vaccines, a more or less definite place when the new mass of data regarding nonspecific reactions began to appear and to cause grave doubts as to what were formerly regarded as fundamental