Chemotherapy of Tuberculosis

Since Ehrlich's discovery of 'Salvarsan' there have been several attempts to seek a chemotherapeutic drug for the treatment of many infectious diseases. Of all the chemical substances studied in the chemotherapy of tuberculosis, calcium and gold compounds have probably attracted more attention over a longer period of tune than any others, Maver and Wells 1 , from their intensive investigations, came to the conclusion that calcium does not support the conception of a favourable influence on the course of tuberculous infection, nor does it appreciably increase the calcium content of blood and tissue, and no specific significance has been proved as yet for calcium and its combinations.