Rational Immunization in the Treatment of Pulmonary Tuberculosis and Other Diseases.

The main motive in this publication of seventy-five pages appears to be the belief that those interested in immunization, particularly vaccine therapy, do not take into sufficient consideration the possibility that disturbed enzymic action of the body cells is responsible for much of the injury which attends infections. So far as can be gathered from the somewhat involved phraseology, the assumption appears to be made that in health the enzymes of the body are held in equilibrium by antienzymes, and that in infections this equilibrium is disturbed; that the antienzymes appear to be ineffective or deficient as a consequence of bacterial action; and that this state of affairs leaves the autolytic, and perhaps other enzymes free to injure the cells of the body. On the basis of this assumption, which the author appears to accept as a fact, he deplores that we do not immunize with enzymes and emulsions of