Medicine: Spahlinger's Serum

British medical men are in a ferment, it appears from the correspondence columns of the Lancet, over a serum introduced by Henri Spahlinger, a physician of Geneva, Switzerland, for the treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis. Spahlinger's serum has been in existence for ten years, but owing to financial difficulties he has been unable to manufacture it in quantity, nor has it been submitted to experimental investigation before official scientific groups. Many competent doctors, however, have visited Geneva, have used the serum and testify to its revolutionary merits. It would be a...

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