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panic. He over-reaches in the attempt to save the life 

 of his patient; he does too much. His treatment is too 

 heroic, or it does not follow a sound line of therapeutics. 



What little reserve disease-resisting stamina the pa- 

 tient has left, the veterinarian wipes out with his treat- 

 ment. If there is one condition in which heroics do 

 harm, it is in this one. Every move on the practitioner's 

 part in the treatment of a case of septicemia should go no 

 further than an effort at assistance. Do just enough to 

 help the natural efforts inherent in the organism, and 

 don't try to help too much. 



We can do aU that should be done, all that it is possible 

 to do in a really beneficial sense, with three things : 



1. Mixed bacterins ; or anti-streptococcic serum. 



2. lodin. 



3. Nux vomica or strychnia. 



With this give me a lance, and I am ready to do battle 

 with any case of septicemia resulting from wound 

 infection. 



Begin the treatment, if the ease is ordinary or mild, 

 with a full dose of mixed bacterins. If the case is more 

 than ordinarily severe, and you fear that bacterins will 

 be too slow, use anti-streptoeoecic serum along with the 

 bacterins. The serum will dilute and hold in abeyance 

 the toxins in the blood stream until the bacterins can 

 induce the elaboration of anti-bodies. There is no ques- 

 tion in my mind in regard to the value of bacterins in 

 acute infectious diseases. In fact, I have had much better 

 results from bacterins in acute diseases than in chronic. 

 I have used bacterins since 1906 (the first were "home- 

 made") and, although my practice has probably not been 

 so large as that of some veterinarians, I have used several 

 thousand doses of them. I have so much faith in bac- 

 terins and depend upon them to such an extent that I 

 would find it a most difficult problem to practice without 



