PAET II 

 PREVENTION 



CHAPTER LXXXIV 



VACCINATION AS A PREVENTIVE 



THAT every contagious and infectious disease is 

 preventable goes without saying. Yet it has been 

 said over and over again; and it ought to be re- 

 peated again and again, to make every one familiar 

 with the fact. Its vital importance warrants repe- 

 tition in the ears of the world continually. A lit- 

 tle thing to prevent the fire from kindling in your 

 house, a big thing after your house is half 

 burned, to put out the fire and repair the damage. 



Prevent the disease before it half destroys the 

 body in which you live. 



Each disease may have, in some respects, its spe- 

 cial means of prevention ; but certain means apply, 

 more or less, to all. 



One means is vaccination. This means is natural ; 

 and good because it is natural. When in each dis- 

 ease the germs manufacture the poison which is the 

 immediate cause of the disease, all the cells of the 

 body unite in a common effort to manufacture an 

 antitoxine to counteract the poison. As the pa- 



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