ANTITOXINS 



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him take the treatment of compound fractures. If 

 he would measure the saving of patients from pain, 

 fever, and long confinement to bed, let him take 

 the ordinary run of surgical cases, not only the 

 major operations but all abscesses, lacerated 

 wounds, foul sores, and so forth. 



A serum has also been used of late years for 

 the treatment of micrococcus-infection, and has 

 given good results in many cases. It has been 

 used, also, to avert the risk of such infection in 

 certain operations where the antiseptic method 

 cannot be strictly carried out. 



