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THE effect of alcohol on the artificial production of immunity in animals in regard to rabies, tetanus, and anthrax has been recently studied by Dr. Deléarde. It has been frequently observed that persons addicted to alcohol suffer, as a rule, far more severely from the effects of microbial infections than normal individuals, and not long ago, in 1896, Abbot, of Philadelphia, showed that pathogenic bacteria, incapable of killing healthy animals, were able to produce fatal results in animals intoxicated with alcohol. This was found to be the case with the B. coli communis, the staphylococcus, and the streptococcus.
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Alcohol in Relation to Microbial Diseases. Nature 57, 355 (1898). https://doi.org/10.1038/057355a0
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