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with a modified hypochlorous solution. The agents used are chosen be- 

 cause of their selective or discriminatory action, harming the germs 

 while not damaging the tissues. This is an antiseptic method. Chlora- 

 min-T is another substance much used, and still another that is highly 

 praised in fluvine, prepared by Ehrlich some years back for use in 

 sleeping sickness. It has cleared up septic cases of months' duration in 

 a few days. And the end is not yet! 



To summarize the situation in the war from our point of view we can 

 well use the following clipping copied from the Emporia Gazette of 

 December 27, 1917: 



"fight GERMANS AND LIVE. 



"New York, Dec. 27. — Fritz-tighting adds five years to your life and 

 has its merits in several other ways, according to late Canadian statis- 

 tics. Here are some of the chances your boy will take if he goes to the 

 front : 



"He has twenty-nine chances of coming home to one of being killed. 



"He has ninety-eight chances of recovering from a wound to two of 

 dying. 



"He has only one chance in 500 of losing a limb. 



"He will live five years longer because of the physical training. 



"He will be freer from disease in the army than in private life. 



"He has better medical care at the front than at home. 



"Only ten per cent of the men disabled for further military service 

 have been unfit to resume their former occupations. 



"Less men die of disease than in any war in history." 



I think that all will agree that much of this is true because of the 

 present situation in bacteriology. Nor would we in any way wish to 

 detract from the honor due other sciences that have aided in this work. 

 However, our science has not been prostitute in any great degree to 

 wrong uses, as may be said of some others. Its services have been en- 

 tirely beneficent, restorative, constructive. This is as it should be. 



In conclusion, we would add that very much more could be said in 

 such a review. We have scarcely mentioned several great phases of 

 the subject. The members of the Academy have largely witnessed the 

 entire development of this great science, and if a single half century 

 can accomplish so much, what may we not look for in the future, and 

 probably the near future at that! 



We would close, as we began, by prophesying that the individual, and 

 especially the people who would thrive and succeed in the race of life, 

 must be cognizant of the principles and practices of the science of 

 bacteriology. 



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Davis, Dr. David John: "Bacteriology and the War." The Scientific 

 Monthly, 1917, v. 4, p. 385. 



Egbert, Seneca: "A Manual of Hygiene and Sanitation," 6th ed., 1916. 



Faulkner & Robb, Translators of "Studies on Fermentation," by Pas- 

 teur (876), 1879. 



Harrington-Richardson: "A Manual of Practical Hygiene," 5th ed., 

 1914. 



Jordan: "General Bacteriology," 5th ed., 1916. 



Paget, S.: "Pasteur and After Pasteur," 1914. 



Rosenau, Milton J.: "Preventive Medicine and Hygiene," 3d ed., 

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The Kansas City Times: "Find a Cure for Lockjaw," Nov. 21, 1917. 



