This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 Excerpt: ...out with boiled water, the culture being made in ordinary agar and maltose serum agar, and the bacteria planted out. The opsonic indices to the various organisms are then obtained, and a vaccine prepared of the one giving the lowest index. If more than one organism shows a low index, a mixed vaccine of the several ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 Excerpt: ...out with boiled water, the culture being made in ordinary agar and maltose serum agar, and the bacteria planted out. The opsonic indices to the various organisms are then obtained, and a vaccine prepared of the one giving the lowest index. If more than one organism shows a low index, a mixed vaccine of the several species is indicated. If more than one organism is associated, as is commonly the case, subsequent observations of the index of each are recorded, and the vaccine is modified. If improvement is shown, further bacteriological analysis at a later date may be required, as further infection may have occurred." For further details of the treatment the reader is referred to Mr. K. Goadby's paper Lancet, vol. ii., p. 1875, 1909). Clinical experience teaches us that careful and thorough treatment of the teeth will produce a rapid improvement, not only in the local, but usually in any general symptoms that may be present; and when, therefore, vaccine treatment and local treatment are combined, it is difficult to determine the precise effect of each. It seems likely that, in advanced cases of pyorrhoea accompanied by definite constitutional symptoms, the employment of vaccines may quickly raise the resistance of the patient to infection, and thereby enable the tissues to respond more rapidly and more readily to local treatment; and the results yielded by vaccine treatment in such cases tend to show that it may act in this way. In the treatment of periodontal disease it is necessary that the abnormal spaces around the teeth should be eradicated. To obtain this result would seem to be a simple matter, but in actual practice it is extremely difficult to obtain, and unless patients after treatment by vaccines continue daily to carry out the cleansing of th...
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