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in advance of the time when the organism is expected to 

 saturate the body with its toxic products. 



This, in brief, is the theory and practice of Pasteur's 

 system of treating hydrophobia. It is exactly in keeping 

 with the ideas of the present, and is most extraordinary 

 in its reasonings and details when we remember that the 

 first application of the method to human medicine was 

 made October 26, 1885, nearly ten years before the time 

 we began to understand the production and use of anti- 

 toxins. 



