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of fame is the laboratory of the Berlin Imperial 

 Sanitary Office, and there are many other sanitary 

 offices and charitable institutions similarly used for the 

 pursuit of Health, by the propagation of disease. 



All the thinking and feeling world must acknow- 

 ledge that a rational method of healing, and a scientific 

 account of the origin of disease, are eminently de- 

 sirable, and will agree with the illustrious Sydenham, 

 whose fame is untarnished by any voluntary production 

 of disease, though he cannot be said to be really suc- 

 cessful in its cure. He could not cure himself of the 

 gout, from which he suffered for thirty years, of 

 which with some other equally painful complaints 

 he died.* 



The modern method is to fight disease, " even as 

 Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses," by imitating 

 and re-producing the acts of the plague-sender. 



It is a feeble and shortsighted policy ; and in the 



erysipelas in rabbits. Fehleisen placed this beyond doubt, 

 inasmuch as he produced successive cultures of these micro- 

 cocci (derived from the lymphatics of erysipelatous human skin), 

 and then by re-inoculation produced the disease not only in 

 rabbits but also in man." 



These extracts are interesting, especially when we read Klein's 

 own remarks, given on the same page. There is a charming 

 unity of sentiment amongst these professional brethren, but 

 as opening out new and hitherto undreamed of ways of doing 

 good. 



"These inoculations were justifiable because they were 

 undertaken with a view to cure certain tumours. Thus, one case 

 of lupus, one case of cancer, ore case of sarcoma, were consider- 

 ably affected, and to the good of the patient." (Klein, p. 71.) 

 We ask, what good ? 



* " Podagra inde a triginta annis laborabat Sydenhamius 

 (Op. Om., p. 15). 



