NATURE'S ANTITOXIN REINFORCED 277 



At a suitable time after recovery, from the body 

 of the animal a quantity of blood is drawn. It 

 coagulates. The heavy parts sink to the bottom, 

 the serum rises to the surface. It contains germs. 

 It is therefore filtered, sterilized, purified. 



This serum is now the real antitoxine, exactly 

 the same in kind and quality with that prepared 

 by the cells in the human body. 



It is now ascertained how much of this anti- 

 toxine is a proper dose for the child, how much 

 for the adult. 



Then, when the child or adult is taken with the 

 disease, the proper dose is immediately adminis- 

 tered by hypodermic injection. The dose, modi- 

 fied, if need be, is repeated as often as circum- 

 stances require. Nature's antitoxine, already set 

 up by the body cells of the patient, is thus rein- 

 forced. The combined quantity now in the blood 

 is sufficient to counteract and overpower the poison 

 manufactured by the disease germs. The patient 

 recovers. 



This is one of the greatest discoveries in medical 

 science. The treatment is attended with great suc- 

 cess. By it thousands of lives are saved. In lo- 

 calities where 60 per cent, of the cases, diphtheria, 

 for instance, used to prove fatal, now only 12 

 per cent, prove fatal. Each one of the twelve, no 

 doubt, could be saved if the antitoxine could be 

 administered at exactly the right moment and in 

 proper doses. 



