CHAPTER IX 



MEDICAL "SCIENCE" 



" Cleanness of body was ever deemed to proceed from 

 a due reverence to God." Bacon. 



THE War Office and the public have for 

 five years been prostrate at the feet of 

 Sir Almroth Wright and his typhoid 

 inoculation. 



With regard to the War Office it is 

 perhaps difficult to perceive what course they 

 were to pursue in the middle of a great war, 

 except that of following the advice of the 

 best medical authority they could find. It 

 must be assumed, therefore, that the War 

 Office genuinely believed in the dicta of 

 this oracle of Science. 



Sir Joseph Lister was raised to the peerage 

 in a halo of antiseptic spray, but Sir Almroth 



