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2dly, to take care that some young medical men should 

 be thoroughly trained in the technic which is, on 

 the whole, common to the manufacture of the 

 different anti-sera; 



3dly, to dispense, without payment, to such hospitals 

 and doctors as might require it, all the serum 

 anlidiphthericum, which, under the circumstances, 

 the laboratory was able to produce. 

 The grant asked for being given, I thought it most 

 proper to use part of it for establishing a special sero- 

 therapentic department to be independent of the students' 

 laboratory and to have, to a certain extent, an equip- 

 ment and a staff of its own. It should then be left with 

 the future fate of serum -therapy to decide whether this 

 new department should be relinquished, its premises 

 and apparatus being incorporated with the students' 

 laboratory as a useful extension of the same - - or 

 whether it should be necessary to extend it further, 

 separate it from the students' laboratory and thus make 

 it into an independent institution. 



The Laboratory could only place two very small rooms 

 and a tolerably good guinea-pig house at the disposal 

 of the new Department. Before long, however, it became 

 necessary to find room for small animals outside the 

 premises, at the Zoological Garden, which is rather 

 far away, where a special little breeding-house was 

 erected for the guinea-pigs. The horses, too, had to be 

 stabled far away from the Laboratory, in the stables of 

 the Veterinary College, kindly put at our disposal. Fur- 

 thermore, for a short time, the Department has had the 

 use of a stable with ten stalls, belonging to a tram-car 

 company, for some experiments on a somewhat exten- 

 sive scale. A few years ago a small out-of-the-way room 

 at the Laboratory was equipped for plague experiments, 



