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theoretical warrant for the administration of agents that stim- 

 ulate the blood-forming mechanism to effective activity, since 

 "good blood" is always at a premium. Moreover, it is plausible 

 to suppose that when the cytogenic apparatus is thus rendered 

 active, its functionings will result, under proper stimulus, in a 

 maximum production of specific anti-bodies directed against the 

 toxins of a particular bacterium, as well as of general enzymes 

 to deal with the proteid bodies of the bacteria themselves. 



It appears fairly certain, then, that the range of application of 

 non-specific protein therapy overlaps the field of specific therapy, 

 and has even wider connotations than those included in the prac- 

 tical use of the method up to the present. Yet even as the case 

 stands at the moment, protein therapy, of proved value in condi- 

 tions ranging from anaemia and intestinal toxaemia to typhoid 

 fever and tuberculosis, and from rheumatism to cancer a 

 method, in short, that combats every form of protein toxaemia 

 by fortifying the bodily defensive and offensive mechanism as 

 represented in blood-forming organs and blood corpuscles may 

 without exaggeration be said to constitute the most general and 

 the most comprehensive procedure known to modern scientific 

 therapeutics. 



It is my confident belief that in the very near future non- 

 specific protein therapy and in particular Proteal therapy will 

 be so generally employed as to modify the mortality statistics of 

 the degenerative diseases of middle life and old age not less 

 conspicuously than the mortality of diphtheria has been modi- 

 fied by specific serum therapy and the mortality of typhoid fever 

 by the anti-typhoid vaccine. In its ultimate application, Proteal 

 therapy will find a prominent place among preventive measures 

 and in the incipiency of disorders of nutrition. In its earliest 

 application to the later stages of the most malignant of disorders 

 of disturbed metabolism, it showed astonishing efficacy; but the 

 full measure of its value can be taken only when it is generally 

 used to counteract disorders of nutrition in their incipiency 

 simple anaemias, neurasthenias, mild autointoxications, "run- 

 down" conditions or at a stage short of profound cachexia and 

 permanently degenerated organs. The present book will have 

 served its purpose if it arouses the profession to a realization of 

 the enheartening possibilties along these lines now made available 

 by protein therapy in its wider aspects. 



