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injected at one time. At length, the animal becomes proof 
against any ordinary amount of the poison. His blood is now 
drawn and its watery portion nea 2 — acd as sommes 
antitoxi It is, in fact, 
and its strengtli can be readily fixed fe testing its power io 
counteract solutions of toxin of known stren 
Although diphtheria is the e to whi h attention has 
been chiefly directed, its average mortality in e - 
duced more than fifty per cent. by this treatment, moderate suc- 
cess has also been attained in lockjaw and so: ther diseases, 
Jaw 
Prevention against smai eas ee quite a one prin- 
ciple i in defence, namely Th 
upon the known facts that certain types of a disease are milder 
than others, ae se ne mildness can be ey produced by 
th pli 
der 
f these methods 
ainild fon of the disease is created, and this disease is then im 
a those whom it is desired to immuni is 
stimulus, their systems manufacture the required antitoxin, which 
to comes effective in protecting them against a new infec- 
c 
tion. By this method, smallpox, once the most dreaded of 
diseases, may now be almost called unusual, considering its 
rarity among our vast populations 
Henry H. Russy, M.D. 
THE BUFFALO BOTANIC GARDEN.* 
uffalo Botanic Garden is an ieonen created by the Park 
N 
mmission of the City of lo, ler power granted 
in the charter. The Garden is therefore a part of the Park Sys 
t e City, and is supported, as are the other parts of the 
system, by annual appropriations made by the mon Council. 
It has no other resources and for many things it has at present to 
rely on the generosity of its friends. 
The ground devoted to the use of the Garden comprises the 
whole of ‘South Park’’; a tract of aft 
* ~P, a ft the edi 
