ALUM IN HOOPING-COUGH.

Quinine in Hooping Cough

of July last in nay family, and I venture to think a few brief notes <>f them may not be devoid of intei'est, as the remedy I found successful in their treatment?quinine,?has been only recently noticed in the columns of Lancet, and well deserves to be widely known. Case 1.?An infant ten months old, stout and healthy, but teething, was brought iu contact with another child convalescing from hoop...

Notes of a Case of Hooping Cough, with Remarks on Nervous Dyspnœa

(Doctor West on " Diseases of Infancy and Childhood," 4th edition, pages 439 et seq.) should think it necessary to write some pages of warning to practitioners against the danger of overtreatinji, or rather mistaking mere functional affection of the brain occurring in hooping cough for inflammatory diseases of the lungs, has induced me to make the following remarks, founded on the observations ...

Alum Coagulation

How alum works

For more than 70 years, alum has been used as a trusty aide to improve antibody responses to vaccines. But how this aluminum-containing compound boosts the response to vaccines has been a mystery. On page 869, Kool et al. expose its mysterious mechanism; they find that alum causes cells to produce a stim-ulator of dendritic cells (DCs). DCs were once the favored hypothetical link between alum a...

Alum Induces Innate Immune Responses