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effects of antitoxin treatment and these
cases had best be avoided. Gewin, in a
series of 200 patients given injections of
diphtheria antitoxin, gave every alternate
patient calcium, gr, 7 1-2 to 15, by mouth
when the antitoxin was injected. He
claims that in those patients receiving the
calcium chloride there was either no disturbance
at all or, at the most, very slight.
It would, therefore, perhaps, be wise to give
calcium chloride with every injection of
antitoxin as a prophylactic measure, and,
wherever possible, the administration of the
calcium chloride should precede the antitoxin.
There is still much work to be done on
this most important subject and the future
will probably bring out many interesting
points along this line. Rosenau and Anderson
believe that the results so far obtained
show that anaphylaxis has a practical
significance in the prevention and
cure of certain of the infectious diseases
and that this is true we hope may be shown
in the nearby future.
In conclusion, I wish to thank Dr. John
F. Anderson of the Hygienic Laboratory
of the U. S. P. and M. H. Service for mucii
valuable assistance in furnishing me with
literature and references.
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