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PRACTICAL APPLICATION OF BACTERIAL INOCU- 

 LATION IN MEDICINE, PROPHYLACTICALLY 

 AND THERAPEUTICALLY 



GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS— INDUCED AUTO-INOCULA- 

 TION—DURATION OF ACTIVE IMMUNITY"— MODES AND 

 TECHNIC OF ADMINISTRATION OF BACTERINS— 

 DOSAGE— CONTRA-INDICATIONS, LIMITATIONS AND 

 CAUSES OF FAILURE IN BACTERIN THERAPY— APPLI- 

 CATION AND RESULTS OF BACTERIAL INOCULATIONS 

 IN SPECIAL DISEASES— DISEASES OF THE SKIN AND 

 SOFT PARTS— DISEASES OF THE GENITO-URINARY 

 SYSTEM— DISEASES OF BONES AND JOINTS— DISEASES 

 OF THE EYE, EAR, NOSE AND THROAT— DISEASES OF 

 THE LUNGS— DISEASES OF THE ALIMENTARY SYSTEM- 

 DISEASES OF THE CARDIOVASCULAR, LYMPHATIC AND 

 NERVOUS SYSTEMS, ALSO OTHER ACUTE SPECIFIC 

 FEVERS— MALIGNANT NEOPLASMATA— YEAST AND 

 SOUR MILK 



General Indications. — Wright has declared that, 

 " we have in the power of increasing the antibacterial 

 power of the blood by the agency of vaccines, and in 

 our power of bringing the antibacterial agencies of 

 the blood into operation in the focus of infection, be- 

 yond all comparison the most valuable assets of medi- 

 cines." It might be wise to modify this assertion to 

 the effect that, in the competent employment of bac- 

 terins tve have one of the most valuable assets, A 

 very important fact ever to be remembered in the 

 practice of medicine — and this includes particularly 

 bacterin therapy — is never to discard or disregard old- 

 established measures of proven worth, for a new idea, 



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