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examined, had a typical reaction on the micrococcus 

 of Malta fever in iooo-fold dilution. The horse, 

 which has been immunised for Malta fever for the 

 last eight months, was immediately bled, and we 

 are informed that the patient has now had two 

 injections, each of 30 cub. cm. of the serum. He is 

 doing well, and it is hoped that the attack has been 

 cut short." {British Medical Journal, 16th October 



1897.) 



About fifty cases had up to September 1899 

 been treated at Netley "with marked benefit: 

 whereas they found that all drug-treatment failed, 

 the antitoxin treatment had been generally suc- 

 cessful.'^ A good instance of the value of the 

 serum-treatment of Malta fever is published in the 

 Lancet, 15th April 1899. For a later account of 

 this treatment and of its efficacy, see the Phila- 

 delphia Medical Journal, 24th November 1900. 



* For the whole subject, see Lancet, 9th September 1899, 

 paper by Surgeon-Major Birt and Surgeon-Captain Lamb. Two 

 other cases of accidental inoculation occurred at Netley. 



