A REPORT ON ANTIMENINGITIS VACCINATION AND
OBSERVATIONS ON AGGLUTININS IN THE BLOOD OF
CHRONIC MENINGOCOCCUS CARRIERS.
BY FREDERICK L. GATES, M. D.
First Lieutenant, Medical Corps, U. S. Army.
(From the Base Hospital, Fort Riley, Kansas, and The Rockefeller Institute ./or
Medical Research, New York.)
PLATES 47 AND 48.
(Received for publication, July 20, 1918.)
Following an outbreak of epidemic meningitis at Camp Funston,
Kansas, in October and November, 1917, a series of antimeningitis
vaccinations was undertaken on volunteer subjects from the camp.
Major E. H. Schorer, Chief of the Laboratory Section at the adjacent
Base Hospital at Fort Riley, offered every facility at his command
and cooperated in the laboratory work connected with the vaccinations.
In the camp, under the direction of the Division Surgeon,
Lieutenant Colonel J. L. Shepard, a preliminary series of vaccinations
on a relatively small number of volunteers served to determine the
appropriate doses and the resultant local and general reactions. Following
this series, the vaccine was offered by the Division Surgeon to
the camp at large, and "given by the regimental surgeons to all who
wished to take it.
...
Reactions.--After the first injections had been given, the opinion
was almost universal in the camp that the vaccine caused less general
and local reaction than the typhoid prophylactic. In very few regiments
was a man excused from duty the following day on account
of the reaction from the vaccination. The general feeling was that the
second dose caused less reaction than the first, but there were a few
men in almost every organization who had reactions of moderate
severity, sometimes being confined to bed for the day with headache,
joint pains, and nausea. Several cases of looseness of the bowels or
transient diarrhea were noted. This symptom had not been encountered
before. Careful inquiry in individual cases often elicited
the information that men who complained of the effects of vaccination
were suffering from mild coryza, bronchitis, etc., at the time
of injection. ...
OBSERVATIONS ON AGGLUTININS IN THE BLOOD OF
CHRONIC MENINGOCOCCUS CARRIERS.
BY FREDERICK L. GATES, M. D.
First Lieutenant, Medical Corps, U. S. Army.
(From the Base Hospital, Fort Riley, Kansas, and The Rockefeller Institute ./or
Medical Research, New York.)
PLATES 47 AND 48.
(Received for publication, July 20, 1918.)
Following an outbreak of epidemic meningitis at Camp Funston,
Kansas, in October and November, 1917, a series of antimeningitis
vaccinations was undertaken on volunteer subjects from the camp.
Major E. H. Schorer, Chief of the Laboratory Section at the adjacent
Base Hospital at Fort Riley, offered every facility at his command
and cooperated in the laboratory work connected with the vaccinations.
In the camp, under the direction of the Division Surgeon,
Lieutenant Colonel J. L. Shepard, a preliminary series of vaccinations
on a relatively small number of volunteers served to determine the
appropriate doses and the resultant local and general reactions. Following
this series, the vaccine was offered by the Division Surgeon to
the camp at large, and "given by the regimental surgeons to all who
wished to take it.
...
Reactions.--After the first injections had been given, the opinion
was almost universal in the camp that the vaccine caused less general
and local reaction than the typhoid prophylactic. In very few regiments
was a man excused from duty the following day on account
of the reaction from the vaccination. The general feeling was that the
second dose caused less reaction than the first, but there were a few
men in almost every organization who had reactions of moderate
severity, sometimes being confined to bed for the day with headache,
joint pains, and nausea. Several cases of looseness of the bowels or
transient diarrhea were noted. This symptom had not been encountered
before. Careful inquiry in individual cases often elicited
the information that men who complained of the effects of vaccination
were suffering from mild coryza, bronchitis, etc., at the time
of injection. ...
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