Excerpt from Serums, Vaccines and Toxins: In Treatment and Diagnosis
Our knowledge of the nature of infective agents, and of the mode in which we are able to resist them, is of comparatively recent development, and the theories now in vogue to explain the observed facts are still more novel; so that the whole subject forms almost unknown ground to the majority of medical practitioners. Yet the importance of this branch of study is very great: it is in this direction that our insight into the nature of disease has advanced most rapidly, and that the prospects of successful treatment are most encouraging.
In the present volume I have endeavoured to give a short account of the principal facts which have been ascertained, and of the general trend of speculation, on the subject of immunity - one which shall be intelligible to readers who have not had opportunities of making themselves acquainted with the vast and daily increasing literature on this branch of pathology - as well as to elucidate the practical value of the many remedial agents which have been introduced in the form of serums, vaccines and toxines.
I have not attempted to discuss in detail the mode of preparation of these substances, since this is a matter which concerns expert bacteriologists and laboratory workers rather than practitioners of medicine, and is one of which I have no personal knowledge.
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