Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 2247

ALBERT CALMETTE (1863-1933) L'infection bacillaire et la tuberculose chez l'homme et chez les animaux. Masson 1920 vi, 619 pp., illus., 25 col. plates. 25 cm.

Calmette, a former pupil of Pasteur, was sent to Saigon in French Indochina to direct the newly established Pasteur Institute. Finding that many people were being killed by snakebite, he developed an effective serum to neutralize snake venom. He returned to France in 1894 as director of the Pasteur Institute at Lille where he took up the study of tuberculosis and devised the conjunctival test for tuberculosis (the Calmette test). In 1924 he introduced the B.C.G. (Bacille-Calmette-Guerin) vaccine, a living strain of bovine tubercle bacilli, for use as an immunizing agent. It was widely used at the time, especially for children. This work is a comprehensive study of the preparation and use of tuberculosis vaccines and contains a number of excellent colored plates of pathological specimens.

Gift of John Martin, M.D.