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SMAD. An Organ of Student Opinion. 1936. Volume 7. Number 5.

Dr. Lynch v. Bugs — Infection and Immunity

Dr. Lynch v. Bugs

Infection and Immunity.

It was Jenner's eye for a comely wench that led him to observe that 18th century milkmaids retained that schoolgirl complexion because of freedom from smallpox. Anyhow, so Dr. Lynchtold us at the Nat Hist. Soc. on Wednesday night.

Adopting his usual excelllent principle of giving just the ground-work of his subject without recourse to specialised language orwork, the lecturer described infection as the entry and establishment offoreign organisms inthe body, juggled with the terms cocci and bacilli, and explained their action as due to secretion of toxie substances such as tuberculin. this had been isolated and its chemistry partly investigated. From there, Dr. Lynch proceeded to discuss immunity and the methods of obtaining it by injecting substances to neutralise the toxin. After Jenner's work the technique of this process had been established by Pasteur in studies on rabies, and the methods have remained substantiallythe same in the same in the last 50 years.

Waxing patriotic, Dr. Lynch pointed out that Pasteur's work had been sponsored chiefly of England, much to the delight of AngloIndian Tommies, who, wangling a dog-fight in the bazaar obtained a "blighty" at the risk of contracting hydrophobia.