著者

藤倉 静男

出版者

千葉医学会

雑誌

千葉医学会雑誌 (ISSN:00093459)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.27, no.2, pp.79-87, 1951-12

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The author isolated B. beriberi of Matsumura from feces of many patients, who were suffering from beriberi. For the purpose of diagnosis of beriberi, he applied intracutaneous injection of the vaccine, which was made with the typical strain of B. beriberi of Matsumura. It reacted positive upon the majority of beriberi patients, but almost negative upon persons in good health. Furthermore the author found the therapeutic effects of vaccine upon patients of beriberi who were ill several years in spite of much vitamin B1 injection. Further he studied on effects of B. beriberi vaccine using pigeons and he observed therapeutic and preventive effects of the vaccine against polyneuritis of pigeons. The vaccine of B. coli communis had also analogous effects upon neuritis of pigeons, but its effects were far weaker than those of the vaccine of B. beriberi.