The Idolatry of Science 



facts, but medical men of Science care 

 nothing for facts ; if facts do not support 

 them, so much the worse for the facts. 



The quiet searcher after truth can get no 

 assistance from their publications ; all is flat 

 assertion, supported, if at all, by nothing 

 better than unverified figures compiled by 

 furious propagandists with a serum to extol 

 or a prophylactic to push. 



Tetanus is a disease which at the moment 

 is causing the flow of much ink from their 

 pens. In a single article in the British 

 Medical Journal, October 10, 1914, Mr. 

 Alfred M'Conkey wrote these two statements 

 on different pages : 



(i) "Tetanus may be cured by the 

 administration of anti-toxin, provided that 

 the serum treatment is begun early in the 

 attack and pursued vigorously and con- 

 tinuously." 



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