PART I 

 VICTOKY 



CHAPTEE XCV 



CERTAINTIES 



IT is certain that, during the last half century, 

 a New Era has dawned in the history of medicine, 

 discovery of the Germ Theory of Disease. 



Certain it is that this theory has become an es- 

 tablished fact, forty-four diseases, forty-four dif- 

 ferent kinds of germs, one kind of germ the cause 

 of each disease. 



Certain it is that a number of antitoxins have 

 been discovered to cure a corresponding number 

 of these diseases, each antitoxin a specific for 

 each disease. 



Certain it is that, if the antitoxin is rightly and 

 timely administered, the disease is cured. 



Certain it is that the diseases, thus cured, rank 

 among the worst, diphtheria, scarlet fever, lock- 

 jaw. 



Certain it is that a number of vaccines have been 

 discovered to prevent the same number of diseases. 



Certain it is that, if the vaccine is timely and 

 rightly applied, it prevents the disease. 



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