The San Francisco call., 1896-11-21
DR.. Maragliano's Famous
Serum Is Being Tried
Here.
Drs. De Vecchi and Vaccari
Discuss This Cure for
Tuber culosiS.
Physicians and Veterinary Surgeons
Supervise the Bacilli. Destroy.
ing Fluid.

The exposition of DR.. Hirschfelder's $
columns of The CALL, has been the all
absorbing subject in the world OF science
and of the public at large as we'll
While the local physicians remedy is
being discussed medical interest centers
round several tubercuIar cases that are
being treated by the Maragliano serum.
In France, England and Italy this
serum is being employed with remarkable
results.
Maragliano is professor in the medi-
cal college at Genoa and has long enjoyed
the esteem OF the entire medical world
His antitoxin is now being used
throughout the hospitals of Italy, and the
manufacture of the serum is under gov
ernment control.
The Maragliano antitoxin Is a horse
.. serum, produced by inoculating healthy
animals with cultured human tubercu-
losis.
The process of manufacture is under the
immediate supervision of physicians and
, veterinary surgeons, and the clinic his
tory of the inoculated animals is kept
with all the exactitude devoted to regu-
lar patient.
For the past few months DR.. Vaccari
has been using the Maragliano serum
with marked success and is most enthusi-
astic in support of the treatment.
1.-The treatment is simple" said Dr..
Vaccari, "and in early stages of consump-
ton there can be no doubt of its efficacy.
Although the beneficial results of the
serum is immediate, fully two months
must elapse before any definite result is
noticeable in the i'm Improvement of the
living tissue. But once an Improvement
is noticeable there is no backsliding of the
disease. The patient continues to get
: better and better. According to Marag-
liano one year of treatment-for the first
two months an injection of the serum
every other day, then allowing more and
more time to elapse between treatment
Is the prescribed tonic for com mplete resti-
tuition to health
When seen in regard to the new remedy
for the cure of the dreaded tuberculosis.
DIR. de Vecchi expressed himself in favor
of.the Maragliano serum.
"Dr. Maragliano,' said the local physi-
clan, first presented, at the medical con-
gress convened at Bordeaux q year ago
last August, his new method for the treat
ment OF tuberculosis, backing his theory
with forty-three cases that had favorably
progressed under his treatment.
"His lecture at the congress was received
stranger and the chauvinism of the French
is proyerbial.
''Shortly after he addressed the medi-
cal society of London. This lecture was
received with great favor, after long and
warm discussion.
"This same immediate acquiescence did
not greet the professor in Italy-'Nemo
profeta in patria.' Maragliano's method
was bitterly opposed at the medical con-
gress at Rome, especially by the bacteri-
oIogists, whose enmity and bitterness he
had aroused by not publishing, as he had
promised, his formula for the preparation
of his serum.
HE had broken his promise to his pro-
fessional brethren for the reason that the
extreme caution necessary in the prepara-
ton of the serum made it dangerous to
spread the formula broadcast.
1.-The composition of the serum is now
public property, and the scientific world
of all Europe has been quick to adopt the
treatment.
"The process employed in the manufac-
ture of the serum is not simple one. 1t
is prepared in special laboratory under
the control of the Government and under
the immediate supervision OF board of
physicians and veterinary surgeons. whose
especial mission is the selection of ami
mails and keeping them under the careful
observation necessary for the incubation
and immunization.
"The serum is then prepared, and when
the necessary tests have been made it is
sealed in small bottles for expectation.
What to me is one of the most convincing
features of the serum is that Marag-
liano introduced his method only
after experiments conclusive and bene-
fetal, convincing not only himself but
those most bitterly opposed to his treat
ment.
Last April the doctor had the pleasure
OF publishing his 400 cases. all attested to
oy the best medical authorities of his
country.
-. since then," concluded DR.. de Vecchi,
the treatment has spread so rapidly and
the atte ending success is so marked that
cases are published by the thousand.
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