184 ANTI-ANAPHYLACTIC TREATMENT OF DISEASES 



known down to their intimate details, if we knew which 

 nerve termination had to be pricked, burned or excited in 

 order to aft'ect a given nerve center and produce the desired 

 general or local reaction, it is certain that on this knowledge 

 one might base a method of treatment as efficient as it would 

 be easy to apply; but as long as our ideas on this subject are 

 as inexact as they are today, the results of this treatment 

 will depend much more on chance than on the knowledge of 

 the operator. 



We are much better equipped today to fight chronic dis- 

 ease efficiently and intelligently by antigens. 



The bacteriotherapy and the choice of the most efficient 

 curative antigen in each particular case are not dictated by a 

 chance discovery. This method is the result of logical deduc- 

 tions based on a long series of experimental researches, and 

 confirmed by other experiments w^hich allow us all to appre- 

 ciate its value. 



