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Published: 2018-02-07

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Excerpt from Report of the Medical Research Council: For the Year 1921 1922 The Council were glad to give, at the request of the Health Section Of the League Of Nations, all possible assistance to the International Conference summoned on behalf of the League to meet in London in December, 1921, to consider the means to be taken towards the establishment of an international system Of common standards for estimating therapeutic sera and other substances used in medical practice or medical research which are susceptible of measurement only by indirect biological methods. At this Conference plans were laid for the conduct of further researches needed in many directions before standards can be securely based, and reports upon work already done have been made to a second Conference in Paris held in November of this year. Further reference to work in this direction under different heads will be made in the present Report. It is interest ing to notice that representatives Of Germany, Of the United States, and Of Russia have attended these Conferences inaugurated by the League of Nations. Great Britain unfortunately is alone among the great nations in having no system of standards Of her own and no machinery for selecting or adopting any standard of value for a given substance. We are still dependent on the United States or Germany for such standards Of reference as are already in use in this field Of work, and on several occasions the Council have drawn attention to this situation as being discreditable to our national position in the world Of science and a source Of grave danger to the community. It may be mentioned that as a result Of the last Conference an agreement has been reached by which the standards formerly laid down for diphtheria and tetanus toxins (and antitoxins) by France, the United States and Germany have been recommended for adjustment and general international adoption. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Report of the Medical Research Council written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-07 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Report of the Medical Research Council: For the Year 1921 1922 The Council were glad to give, at the request of the Health Section Of the League Of Nations, all possible assistance to the International Conference summoned on behalf of the League to meet in London in December, 1921, to consider the means to be taken towards the establishment of an international system Of common standards for estimating therapeutic sera and other substances used in medical practice or medical research which are susceptible of measurement only by indirect biological methods. At this Conference plans were laid for the conduct of further researches needed in many directions before standards can be securely based, and reports upon work already done have been made to a second Conference in Paris held in November of this year. Further reference to work in this direction under different heads will be made in the present Report. It is interest ing to notice that representatives Of Germany, Of the United States, and Of Russia have attended these Conferences inaugurated by the League of Nations. Great Britain unfortunately is alone among the great nations in having no system of standards Of her own and no machinery for selecting or adopting any standard of value for a given substance. We are still dependent on the United States or Germany for such standards Of reference as are already in use in this field Of work, and on several occasions the Council have drawn attention to this situation as being discreditable to our national position in the world Of science and a source Of grave danger to the community. It may be mentioned that as a result Of the last Conference an agreement has been reached by which the standards formerly laid down for diphtheria and tetanus toxins (and antitoxins) by France, the United States and Germany have been recommended for adjustment and general international adoption. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.