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which has come of Pasteur's researches on anthrax. 

 For we have also Sclavo's serum-treatment of 

 anthrax in man : and the value of this treatment 

 is not open to doubt. See, on this point, the 

 Reports of the Bradford Anthrax Investigation 

 Board, 1910-12. The authority of this Board, to 

 whom Dr. Eurich is bacteriologist, may truly be 

 called final. 



In France to say nothing of other countries 

 between 1882 and 1893, more than three million 

 sheep, and more than 400,000 cattle, received the 

 protective treatment. In March, 1894, in the 

 Annales de tlnstitut Pasteur -, Chamberland pub- 

 lished the results : 



" After the famous experiments at Pouilly-le-fort, 

 MM. Pasteur and Roux entrusted to me all the 

 method and practice of vaccinations against anthrax. 

 Twelve years have passed, and it is time now to 

 put together the results and form a final estimate 

 of the value of these preventive inoculations. 



carcases, and all sources of the infection, and prevent infection 

 being brought in. But then there are countries where you 

 cannot do that, and there are places which are already so 

 badly infected that, even if you do destroy the carcases, the 

 disease will go on, since the soil is badly contaminated. . . . 

 Statistics collected in Hungary on over 11 ^ millions of 

 inoculated animals show that the results have been practically 

 the same as in France. They talk of farms where the loss 

 which was 10 per cent, has been reduced to under 1 per cent. 11 

 We in this country have not champs maudits, montagnes 

 mauditeSifermes a cliarbon, such as they had 40 years ago in 

 France. 



