Abstract
THIS book will be found exceedingly useful at the present time, when vaccine therapy has become so popular and in certain fields has achieved such brilliant results. According to the author, the best results are, as a rule, obtained only when vaccination is carried out under the guidance of the opsonic index, but a critical study of his evidence in support of this belief will rather lead one to conclude that good results have been got in spite of the opsonic index, and in spite of negative phases. The use of the expression “opsonic method of treatment,” forming part of the title of the book, must be strongly deprecated. It is unscientific, and can appeal only to the undiscriminating reader who is unaware of the multiplicity of antibodies elaborated in response to vaccination.
Vaccine Therapy and the Opsonic Method of Treatment.
By Dr. R. W. Allen. Second edition. Pp xii+244. (London: H. K. Lewis, 1908.) Price 7s. 6d. net.
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Vaccine Therapy and the Opsonic Method of Treatment . Nature 79, 423–424 (1909). https://doi.org/10.1038/079423b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/079423b0
