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smitten with typhus, the formidable scourge 

 might have been arrested in its focus. 



III. 



Curative Medication. 



"We might acquire the means ol resisting 

 the general causes which develop the typhus ; 

 we might stop its diffusion, we might even 

 prevent it, by inoculating the sound and 

 healthy animals, and yet it would be neces- 

 sary, none the less, to search for the means of 

 curing it ; for, as in the small-pox, the preven- 

 tive treatment of which we know, certain cir- 

 cumstances would arise in the disease which 

 would oblige us to treat it. And as we are 

 far from being able to resist the generation 

 and dissemination of this scourge, which 

 reckons almost as many victims as sufferers, it 

 is important to make known what treatment 

 we can oppose to the functional derangements 

 to which it gives rise. 



As we have already said, this typhus, when 

 the organism has absorbed its peccant and 

 infectious miasma, produces a succession of 

 disorders which become in a manner tempo- 



