Bertrand P. Pallinson In these days of motor versus horse transport the reaction to serum treatment of town-bred children gives no guidance to that of rural dwellers, particularly those in the agricultural industry or in contact with the house population-in fact, I consider that 10 minims solution of adrenaline should be given before any serum injection, especially to children of an asthmatic parent, or those in close association with horses, as in a agricultural area.
The first four diseases are measles, scarlet fever, whooping cough and diphtheria. During that period the death-rate for measles has diminished by 75 per cent., that of scarlet fever by about 66 per cent., that of whooping cough by 60 per cent., and that of diphtheria by only 50 per cent.
If we examine the pamphlet in detail we find that it embodies all the current superstitions of the modern research laboratory, and also perpetuates some old ones. Thus, infants from seven to nine months are to be given broth or gravy. In fact, the diets from nine months onwards could scarcely be worse conceived.
“Planting the swab exactly upon the suspected area on the tonsil or elsewhere, but should remember that in quite a number of cases a nasal swab will give a positive result where a throat swab will not”. “If the public fails to learn, the children will have to be immunized”.