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The days when Haffkine was working here in India on cholera and bubonic plague were times of spectacular advance in immunology. I am thinking of the word ‘immunity’ in its older and truer sense, in which antibodies play some part in the prevention of disease: not the more recent and corrupt application, in which self-styled ‘immunologists’ have a seemingly infinite capacity to discover ways in which antibodies may cause disease! The true immunologists were concerned with the development of vaccines for the prevention of infectious disease. And, in a country like this, there is no need to emphasise that their work — that our work — is not yet complete.
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Preston, N.W. (1975). Vaccine Composition in Relation to Antigenic Variation of the Microbe: Is Pertussis Unique? (Guest Lecture). In: Jucker, E. (eds) Progress in Drug Research / Fortschritte der Arzneimittelforschung / Progrès des recherches pharmaceutiques. Progress in Drug Research / Fortschritte der Arzneimittelforschung / Progrès des recherches pharmaceutiques, vol 19. Birkhäuser Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-7090-0_40
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