Whooping-cough: its pathology and treatment

Whooping-Cough *

Following the isolation of the pertussis bacillus by Bordet and Gengou' in 1906, anticipation of methods of control of whoopingcough was inevitable. This discovery gave impetus to experimental and clinical investigations on various aspects of the whooping-cough problem. The isolation of the apparent causative agent, the introduction of new bacteriologic aids in early diagnosis, the transmission...

Treatment of whooping cough: the facts.

Symptomatic treatment of the cough in whooping cough.

BACKGROUND Around 16 million cases of whooping cough (pertussis) occur worldwide each year, mostly in low-income countries. Much of the morbidity of whooping cough in children and adults is due to the effects of the paroxysmal cough. Cough treatments proposed include corticosteroids, beta2-adrenergic agonists, pertussis-specific immunoglobulin, antihistamines and possibly leukotriene receptor a...

Vaccination and Whooping Cough

To the Editor, The Indian Medical Gazette. Sir,?In the Medical Annual for 1931 it is stated that the paroxyms of whooping cough can be arrested by vaccination against small-pox, but since this method of treatment was recommended in the early part of the present century, it cannot be claimed as something new, but only as something forgotten and revived. Vaccination was recommended as a method of...

Immunization against whooping-cough.

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