About Mazur's antivirus as a curative factor for cutaneous tuberculosis

The hypothesis put forward by Mazur, which considers the blue stick as a kind of the Kochovian stick, is of great interest in theoretical and practical terms. It is extremely tempting that the pure culture of blue rods obtained by Mazur from the red Kokhovska bacillus as a result of 7 generations, continues, in his opinion, to possess the specific properties of the causative agent of tuberculosis, retains its antigenic properties, but at the same time completely loses the toxicity inherent in Kohovska bacillus. Despite the fact that the nature of the antivirus and its mechanism of action have not been completely studied, the apathogenicity of the blue bacillus and the possibility of obtaining local immunity served as the basis for its use for therapeutic purposes by a number of authors for tuberculosis of the skin, bones and eyes.