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MESSRS. BOOTS Pure Drug Co., Ltd., Nottingham, have issued a small booklet about the therapeutic uses of medicinal glucose or anhydrous dextrose. Glucose is usually given by mouth but may be administered by rectum or intravenously. Its great advantage over other forms of carbohydrate in the diet is that it is absorbed without change and so provides an easily assimilable foodstuff. The list of indications for glucose therapy is lengthy, including acute infections, conditions of malnutrition and more specifically hepatic toxaemias and insulin hypogly-caemia. The gonococcus vaccines issued by Messrs. Boots Pure Drug Co., Ltd., are prepared in the Department for Venereal Diseases at St. Thomas's Hospital, London. Three types of vaccine are avail able a simple emulsion of gonococci, a detoxicated vaccine, making it possible to inject with safety a considerably larger dose, and also a mixed vaccine of gonococci with streptococci, staphylococci, diph-theroids and coliform bacilli, organisms commonly found in gonorrhoea complicated by secondary in fection. The organisms in all vaccines are killed by the addition of 0-5 per cent phenol. The vaccines appear to be of distinct value in the treatment of all gonococcal infections, although it may be advisable to defer their use until the acute symptoms of urethritis have subsided. The number of organisms in the vaccines ranges from 200 to 10,000 million per c.c.
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Boots Pure Drug Company's Medical Products. Nature 134, 567–568 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/134567e0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/134567e0