Colostral blood-serum therapy

Abstract

My observations on natural antibodies and healing substances in milk 1 led me to study the transmission of antitoxines in colostrum. Some buck kids were fed from birth until they were about one month old on the colostrum milk which their mothers gave after delivery. The blood-serum of these young goats was utilized for this study.

The ingestion of the colostrum of goats by man has disagreeable results. The greatest amount of the immunizing substances both natural and artificial which pass from the nursing mother to the blood-serum of the infant, however, is transmitted by the colostrum. Antitoxine taken in milk by infants appears to a large extent in their blood-serum. I reasoned that the administration of the blood-serum of these goat kids, obtained from them shortly after they had taken the colostrum, would be beneficial to infants in need of natural antibodies to overcome the hereditary dystrophy of children born of tuberculous mothers. This blood-serum I have here referred to as colostral blood-serum.

Tests of this serum were then made, and it was found to be harmless. Thirty to sixty C.C. of this colostral blood-serum were given every two to four days over a period of two weeks. These doses, each of which had been mixed with a pint of goat's milk, were fed to a scrofulous infant two months old, with a prognosis of extreme gravity. This infant was born of a tuberculous mother. The results indicated undoubtedly a marked benefit. A striking improvement took place during the two weeks following the ingestion of this blood-serum and continued thereafter, until the infant appeared to be about normal. The first dose consisted of 30 C.C. of the colostral blood-serum, used in two days, the second, of 60 C.C. fed in two days, the third of 60 C.C. in four days, the fourth of 50 C.C. in four days, and the fifth of 50 C.C. in two or three days.