RT Journal
A1 McCaskey GW
T1 NEed of government action to check botulism
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1919
FD September 13
VO 73
IS 11
SP 854
OP 854
DO 10.1001/jama.1919.02610370052023
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1919.02610370052023
AB To the Editor: 
    —I have just read with much interest your timely editorial on "The Relation of Forage Poisoning to Botulism" (The Journal, Aug. 23, 1919, p. 611), in which you refer to my recent contribution on this subject (Am. J. M. Sc. 158:57 [July] 1919). May I venture to make a few comments partly in emphasis of what you have said, and partly additional thereto, hoping thereby to accelerate a movement toward government action, which I deem absolutely essential to the protection of the public health?You refer to the recovery of one desperately ill patient under the use of the serum furnished by Professor Graham of the University of Illinois. I wish to say that I have never seen a more direct and striking rescue of a patient from an apparently hopeless condition by a single therapeutic agent on clinical trial for the first time. I should