Medical " Science " 



The unknown writer calls those who regard 

 such figures as worthless " foolish people." 

 I should have thought the donkeys were 

 those who accepted figures put forward in 

 an anonymous pamphlet without a single 

 reference of any kind with which to 

 verify them, and without a single authority 

 mentioned as responsible for their com- 

 pilation. 



There is nothing whatever to show that 

 these figures are not simply invented. 

 The inoculation against typhoid may be 

 effective or ineffective, but if there is any- 

 thing that will make sensible unbiassed 

 people hesitate to believe in its efficacy it is 

 the publication of statistics quoted from no 

 one knows where and proffered in red ink 

 by a society of prejudiced people. 



An anonymous pamphlet was issued from 

 this same Scientific Society on the same 

 subject in October 1914, and it was headed 



