80 PREVENTION OF SCARLET FEVER 



I have to thank Dr. Ewart for his kind note in 

 the British Medical Journal, where he states that 

 " Dr. Milne is certainly the first who attacknl tlu> 

 problem both by throat and skin. Contrast this 

 :i a recent statement in one of the best Practice 

 of Medicine text-books, edition 1909, where 

 author asserts that not much requires to be done 

 in cases of mild throat attacks, although in a 

 previous paragraph he sets forth that this is often 

 the cause of infection. 



When I first laid my experience before my 

 medical brethren in the pages of the British 

 M> diced Journal of October 31, 1908, I had no 

 expectation of being called upon so soon to submit 

 further and weightier results for their considera- 

 tion, but when the cases arose and the way was so 

 providentially opened I could only follow the in- 

 visible guiding hand and report upon the same, 

 as I have now done. I therefore pass on these 

 thoughts as 



" Thoughts not my own, nor deftly spun 

 From loom of loving heart or busy brain ; 

 Thoughts lent to me from stores of other men, 

 That I might test their worth and pass them on ; 

 Thoughts neither mine nor theirs, but gifts of ( 

 That all the glory be to Him alone." 



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