Professors of " Science " 



(2) u The results following the use of 

 anti-toxin as a curative agent have been 

 up to the present for the most part 



c 



unsatisfactory. 



This is so admirably incoherent that 

 gentleman must be right either way, and 

 thus is truth made plain and Science justified ! 

 In an editorial article in the British 

 Medical Journal, October 10, 1914, we find 

 this statement : 



" Thanks to antisepsis, tetanus is not 

 now common in peace at home." 



The suggestion here, if the words mean 

 anything to the editor, was that this disease 

 had been decreasing, but the Registrar- 

 General told us in the report for that year 

 that in the previous fifteen years the death- 

 rate from tetanus per million persons living 

 had increased from one to five ! I suppose 

 the writer in the British Medical Journal was 

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