APPENDIX I 



SERO-VACCINE THERAPY IN HOLLAND AND 

 OTHER COUNTRIES 



Seeo-vaccine therapy has made greater advances in 

 Continental countries than it has in Great Britain, for the 

 obvious reason that the respective Governments of these 

 countries recognize what a valuable asset the principle of 

 the treatment is, and freely place funds at the disposal of 

 experts, who give their time and energy to the advance- 

 ment of the science. Those in authority see the great gains 

 agriculture obtains from scientifically applied preventive 

 and curative medicine. 



Thus we find institutions erected, laboratories fitted up 

 and efficiently staffed by excellent men well paid, whose 

 duty it is to study animal diseases, carry out research work, 

 and adopt scientific measures in the treatment of animal 

 diseases. 



Such an institution is the State Serum Institute of the 

 Dutch Government, which is doing a very great work for 

 the agriculturist in particular, and the whole State in 

 general. 



The sceptic might say this is all very true, but sero- 

 vaccine therapy is a comparatively new method of treatment 

 with few disciples, and it has not withstood the test of time. 



In an exact sense this is not so, for all animals and 

 human beings themselves are by Nature vaccine therapeutists 

 — nay, more, this fact is shrouded in antiquity, for it dates 

 back to the period of the development of the first patho- 

 genic microbe. We know we are daily admitting into our 

 bodies disease - producing germs through ingestion and 

 inhalation, through abrasions of the skin and mucosas, and 

 we are continually manufacturing in our economies pro- 

 tective vaccines to fight against these deadly bacteria. 

 If it were not so, it is appalling to think what the conse- 



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