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RECREATION. 



be found. These specialists have been able 

 to diagnose disease where no external or 

 usual symptom is manifested. This brings 

 the practice of medicine to a fixed science 

 and enables the physician to detect disease 

 within a few days after inoculation. 



One can readily understand the advan- 

 tage of treating a disease at this stage. It 

 requires weeks and months for some of the 



cure. This holds good in the treatment of 

 all diseases. 



This method of diagnosing disease is 

 equally advantageous in determining when 

 to stop treatment. To illustrate what I 

 have just said I will call your attention 

 to the reproductions of micro-photographs 

 here shown. These photographs were made 

 within a few seconds of the time the blood 



MICROSCOPIC VIEW OF PURE BLOOD. 



By permission New York Journal of Hematology. 

 MICROSCOPIC VIEW OF IMPURE BLOOD. 



diseases to develop external manifestations, 

 and a much greater time is required to ex- 

 pel them from the system. For instance 

 the spore of syphilis has been found in 

 the blood 6 days after inoculation, and by 

 immediate treatment, the disease was ex- 

 terminated within a few weeks. 'Without 

 the aid of blood examination 40 days are 

 required to determine the disease. Then 

 i l A years are required in which to effect a 



was drawn. One was taken from a person 

 in good health, the other from one in ap- 

 parently good health, but where the 

 blood proves the opposite. In the first the 

 blood cells are free and the serum in which 

 they float is clear; while in the other the 

 cells adhere to each other, preventing free 

 movement, and in the serum are found par- 

 ticles of old cells and rheumatic fibrin. 



Washington, Sr. — George, I'm not going to 

 punish you for destroying the tree; I only 

 wanted to say that — 



Washington, Jr. — Let's bury the hatchet, 

 pop ! — Puck. 



