Spahlinger's Serum

British medical men are in a ferment, it appears from the correspondence columns of the Lancet, over a serum introduced by Henri Spahlinger, a physician of Geneva, Switzerland, for the treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis. Spahlinger's serum has been in existence for ten years, but owing to financial difficulties he has been unable to manufacture it in quantity, nor has it been submitted to experimental investigation before official scientific groups. Many competent doctors, however, have visited Geneva, have used the serum and testify to its revolutionary merits. It would be a tragedy, they say, if it were, through accidental circumstances, withheld from the world. A number of acute cases treated with it in 1913 and 1914 are still alive and have had no relapses. A movement is on foot to raise funds to subsidize Spahlinger's treatment.