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Author
CSL Commission
Title
This is CSL
Imprint
Commonwealth Serum Laboratories Commission, Parkville, Victoria, No date, c. 1966
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https://www.eoas.info/bib-pdf/ASBS19101.pdf
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Abstract

The Commonwealth Serum Laboratories is Australia's leading centre for the production and supply of biological products for human and veterinary use.

Located at Parkville, an inner suburb of Melbourne, the capital city of the State of Victoria, CSL's research laboratories and manufacturing and storage buildings now cover most of the 27-acre site granted to CSL in 1918.

Since it was formed by the Australian Federal Government in 1916, as a small unit of the Commonwealth Department of Health to produce wartime emergency supplies of sera and vaccines, CSL has become one of Australia's foremost scientific institutes. The scope and variety of its activities has grown in parallel with the development of medical science. [page 4]

Although the word "Serum" is retained in the name of CSL, the production of sera now represents only a part of the Laboratories' total production of biological products. These may be grouped as -

ANTITOXINS such as diphtheria and tetanus antitoxin for the treatment of patients already sick with these diseases.
VACCINES to protect against typhoid, cholera, whooping cough, tuberculosis, smallpox, influenza, poliomyelitis and other
diseases.
TOXOIDS to protect against diseases such as diphtheria and tetanus.
EXTRACTS of endocrine glands such as insulin, heparin, A.C.T.H. (adrenocorticotropic hormone) to be used
when the patient requires additional quantities of these materials.
ANTIBOTICS, including all forms of penicillin.
ALLERGEN extracts for testing and treating sufferers from hay-fever and other allergic states, such as asthma.
ANTIVENENES to treat persons suffering from the bites of snakes, spiders and ' venomous marine life.
POOLED human serum and blood fractions, for blood transfusions in cases of shock and for very sick people, or for persons whose blood is deficient in certain fractions.
DIAGNOSTIC agents for use in hospitals and medical clinics to assist in determining the cause of a patient's illness.
VACCINES for the prevention of diseases in animals and poultry.
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