Treatment of rye by intradermal injection with antivirus. Vasilyeva, Zmigrodskaya, and Marshova (Microbe. J., 1928, vol. 1-2)

The authors applied in 20 rusty patients prickings with antivirus in the following form: a solution of Bezredek antivirus was sterilely filled into a 1-g syringe and a thin needle was injected at a distance of 8-10 centimeters from the edge of the rust process in an amount of 0.1 cc intradermal - until a small white papule appeared, 1/2 - centimeter in diameter; such injections were made around the whole rust affected place, at a distance of 1 centimeter from each other. In 15 cases the local process was abruptly interrupted by such treatment, the redness did not go beyond the line of injections, the temperature dropped the next day, and the general condition improved. Only in cases of septic rye did antiviral injections prove to be ineffective.