"File writer is developing a new method of obtaining the auto¬ 
genous micro-organisms in toxic disease where it appears now 
well nigh impossible to obtain them. 
Vaccination as a prophylactic for disease is seldom or never 
practiced till the disease breaks out somewhere in or near the 
community, or we know pretty well from where it is coming. 
Now by vaccinating- the patient from this advancing particular 
epidemic strain of bacteria, we are much more certain to prevent 
an infection than when we vaccinate from a remote and distantly 
related strain. We must individualize the disease as nearly as 
possible if we would obtain the best results, both for prophylactic 
and curative purposes. Swan claims, I believe, to have immun¬ 
ized other members of a family to scarlet fever by giving them 
the triturated scales taken from the infected member of the 
family. 
Lux immunized whole flocks of sheep for anthrax by giving- 
each the diluted product of a sheep in the flock that had come 
down with the disease. He failed to cure other sheep in other 
flocks with this stock preparation. Had he used the virus of an 
infected sheep from the second flock for immunizing, and curing- 
each sheep of the second flock with his own virus, his results 
would have been more successful. 
The writer is developing- a means of curing sepsis by placing- 
in the month the fresh autogenous toxic substances developed 
during the course of the disease. The therapeutic value of auto¬ 
genous pus, given in this manner, is greater than the autogenous 
vaccine prepared from a pure culture of the offending- micro-or¬ 
ganism by the method now in vogue. 
Pus contains all of the toxic products of tissue changes as en¬ 
zymes, ferments, chemical changes in protoplasmic molecule, etc., 
against which the tissues rest in a curative manner. It also usually 
contains the toxic substances derived from the causative bacteria. 
The toxic contents of pus are the substances that cause a curative 
reaction in the tissue or a natural cure, when a natural cure is 
brought about. Nature uses all the contents of pus in auto-in¬ 
oculation, or in curing the disease, all the contents of pus is what 
