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THE ACTION OF DRUGS 



October 1898.) Outside the laboratory, outside 

 the fever hospitals, the risk is something less than 

 a negligible quantity : — 



u Apart from plague and cholera, in all the 

 big laboratories studies are uninterruptedly pur- 

 sued, from one end of the year to the other, upon 

 anthrax, glanders, influenza, Malta fever, various 

 tropical diseases which do not exist at all or are 

 rare in the countries where they are being studied. 

 The laboratories in question are situated in the 

 largest and most important towns of their respec- 

 tive countries ; and, within those towns, very often 

 in the most fashionable or most populous centres. 

 . . . On no occasion was there even a suspicion 

 aroused of an epidemic having been produced by 

 any of the above-mentioned institutes, or by those 

 tens of thousands of operations against cholera 

 performed in India." (Haffkine, Madras Mail, 

 8th December 1898.) 



