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pest, are effective but their influence cannot be equal to that of 
a general dissemination of knowledge concerning such animals 
through a well organized course in zoology. 
The savage goes to the medicine man for a charm and an in- 
cantation to keep off disease. To by far too large a percentage 
of the civilized world vaccination, administration of antitoxins, 
and similar preventive measures of the modern physician are 
regarded with a supersition differing from that of the savage 
only in degree. Our whole system of modern medicine is 
destined to be built more and more upon the foundation of the 
development of immunity and preventive medicine. It is not 
sufficient for the welfare of society that men and women in our 
colleges be trained in the general methods of the preparation of 
sera, antitoxins, vaccines and the like, for they constitute by 
far too small a percentage of our total population. The pity 
is that some knowledge of these intensely interesting and vital 
relations of man to other animals in the prevention and control 
of disease cannot be given to all classes of society. If future 
generations are to be prepared for the reception of the advances 
which are bound to come in the practice of preventive medicine, 
it is essential that the general public be educated along these 
lines. Otherwise advance in this line would suffer the same 
fate as that accorded the practice of vaccination when it was 
first introduced into this country. History is replete with the 
records of social and economic revolutions which, once started, 
have failed because of the fact that the people had not been 
prepared to accept them. The logical place for the preparation 
of the general public for the advances in medicine which have 
been outlined above rests with our high schools and more spe- 
cifically in connection with the courses in zoology. 
Our public press in the past few years has conducted several 
campaigns against the quacks operating under the disguise of 
the medical profession. Occasionally we read _ sensational 
articles upon the apprehension of a few miscreants and the 
exposure of their methods of operation. The vast majority of 
the tribe remains unmolested and stands as a stigma in most 
communities. Most thinking people if asked for an explanation 
of why these conditions exist are free to confess that ignorance 
rests at the bottom of the whole system. It is not, however, the 
