IMMUNIZING MEDICATION. 



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either through inherited or acquired insufficiency, is unable to 

 adequately maintain general nutrition. It is not in the lungs, 

 therefore, that the primary endogenous cause of the disease 

 must be sought, but in the adrenal system. Nor is it even in 



the lungs that we must seek the explanation of the lesions in 

 them, for the element of specificity of the bacillus of tubercu- 

 losis does not, as is well known, include limitations to any 

 particular organ. 



