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marrow, spleen, and thymus of rabbits previously in- 

 jected with the typhoid bacillus. 



Chantemesse, 1 Pope, 2 and Steele, 3 have all used serums 

 from animals immunized to typhoid cultures for the 

 treatment of typhoid fever, with more or less success. 

 An analysis of the results will, however, show them to 

 be very inconclusive. 



One of the most important and practical points for the 

 physician to grasp in relation to the subject of typhoid 

 fever is the highly virulent character of the discharges, 

 both feces and urine. In every case the greatest care 

 should be taken for their proper disinfection, a rigid 

 attention paid to all the details of cleanliness in the sick- 

 room, and the careful sterilization of all articles which 

 are soiled by the patient. If country practitioners were 

 as careful in this particular as they should be, the disease 

 would be much less frequent in regions remote from the 

 filth and squalor of large cities with their unmanageable 

 slums, and the distribution of the bacilli to villages and 

 towns, by watercourses polluted in their infancy, might 

 be checked. 



1 Gaz. des Hopitaux, 1898, lxxi., p. 397. 



3 Brit. Med. Jour., 1897, i., 259. s Ibid., Apr. 17, 1897. 



