This Article  • References  • Full text PDF  • Reply to article  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Citation map  • Citing articles on Web of Science (1)  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in this journal  Social Bookmarking   What's this?

ROBERTO BUXEDA, M.D.

AMA Arch Ophthalmol. 1952;48(3):352-361.

	Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text PDF and any section headings.

ALTHOUGH the use of typhoid vaccine intravenously in the form of a fairly rapid injection has long been a controversial procedure, it has been a most widely used therapeutic agent in ophthalmology. The use of typhoid vaccine intravenously in a slow continuous infusion is a much more recent procedure. In addition to a review of the literature pertaining to the mechanism of the therapeutic action of typhoid vaccine, this paper describes a method of giving typhoid vaccine intravenously as an infusion and presents case reports to demonstrate the advantages of this method.

Since typhoid vaccine was first used, several investigators, particularly in the United States, have attempted to work out procedures of administration whereby rapid and maximal benefit could be obtained without endangering the patient. Much of this work has been done outside the field of ophthalmology. Typhoid vaccine has been used intravenously in the treatment of systemic diseases for . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO

From the Eye Section, Veterans Administration Hospital, Richmond, Va.

Footnotes
Thesis submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania, in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Medical Science (M. Sc. [Med.]) for graduate work in ophthalmology.

Reviewed in the Veterans Administration and published with the approval of the Chief Medical Director. The statements and conclusions published by the author are the result of his own study and do not necessarily reflect the opinion or policy of the Veterans Administration.

CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter     What's this?