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Streptococcus Infections. Therapeutic results either 

 with serum or vaccines have been unsatisfactory. 



Gonococcus Infections. Vaccines, therapeutically, use- 

 ful in certain types of infection. (See page 116.) 



Boils and Other Staphylococcus Infections. Vaccines, 

 therapeutically, have been of value in certain cases. 



Whooping-cough. Vaccines are now being tried thera- 

 peutically. Results somewhat encouraging. 



Typhus Fever. A vaccine is now being tried. 



Rabies. Pasteur's method of treatment by vaccines is 

 undoubtedly of great value. The vaccine consists of an 

 emulsion in salt solution of spinal cord from a rabbit dead 

 of artificially inoculated rabies. The cord is dried for vary- 

 ing periods and the injections are made daily, beginning 

 with a cord dried fourteen days and changing to a stronger 

 cord (dried less), so that finally the injected material con- 

 sists of a cord dried only three days. 



Influenza. Neither serum nor vaccines have given satis- 

 factory results either therapeutically or for immunization. 



