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confidence recommend this vapour as the most certain means 

 of killing all the organisms which produced epidemic disease. 

 As a matter of fact those organisms cannot exist for any 

 length of time in an atmosphere of carbolic acid vapour. The 

 lecturer then dealt with the disinfection of solid bodies, and 

 gave a number of practical examples of the great utility of 

 carbolic acid vapour as a disinfectant. In a man of drunken 

 or dissipated habits the disease will probably attack him, 

 because his diseased system offers the readiest hiding-place to 

 those organisms. If a man be in a state of fear or nervous 

 apprehension he is nearly sure to take the disease. The fear 

 will reduce his system, and enable the disease to take hold 

 on him. The lecturer concluded by saying that he would on 

 a future date continue the subject, which is an all important 

 one, and deal with other branches of the subject of epidemic 

 disease. 



