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in 1855,* to adopt inoculation as a preventive 

 treatment, drawing an easy comparison between 

 the typhus we are now observing and the 

 typhoid fever in man ; hoping, we may say, 

 indeed, to find in this typhus the inoculative 

 and preventive virus which is required for our 

 typhoid fever, all will understand with what 

 eager and vivid curiosity we have examined 

 the entrails of the victims struck down by 

 this epizootia. For, if this typhus had 

 been a genuine typhoid fever, the bovine 

 species which has already provided the pre- 

 ventive virus for small-pox, would equally have 

 afforded us the preventive virus for typhoid 

 fever. In this hypothesis, our proposal to in- 

 oculate the typhoid fever, which up to this 

 time has been tried on horses only, and in 

 experiments badly conducted, by pupils of the 

 Veterinary School of Lyons, was perhaps on 

 the eve of being realised. But we regret to 



* " Appel a des Experiences dans le but d'etablir le 

 Traitement Preservatif de la Fievre Typhoide et des Mala- 

 dies infectieuses inrecidivables, par 1'inoculation de leurs 

 produits morbides." Memoire lu a 1'Institut, le 8 Octobre, 

 1855. Ins6r6 dans la Gazette Hebdomadaire de Mede- 

 cine. Paris. 



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