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it should not be done and every reason for so doing. Many 
authorities whom the writer consulted, believe we should be able 
to obtain the autogenous vaccine in many diseases where we are 
now not able to obtain it. The writer asked Dr. Brook, Pathol¬ 
ogist of the New York Post-Graduate Medical College, if he 
thought there was efficacy in this proceeding. His answer was, 
“ undoubtedly/’ 
We will now take up the use of the ice bag and cold com¬ 
presses in inflammation. Dr. Clive Riviere told us beautifully in 
the Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine, of the value 
of hyperemia in auto-inoculating the patient in inflammatory con¬ 
ditions, but he said nothing of anemia. By the application of ice 
packs the parts are blanched, the vessels are constricted at the 
focus of inflammation, the contents of the smaller vessels are 
forced into the surrounding healthy tissues and the patient is 
auto-inoculated. An interval of time must elapse here for the 
development of specific antibodies. Have we done this? It is 
apparent we have not. If heat were applied first and then ice, a 
much more serviceable weapon would be at our command. But 
here great care should always be exercised that we do not give 
too large a dose, for it may come at the very time when not de¬ 
sired. The cures made with anemia and hyperemia are auto- 
therapeutic measures, for they each tend to cure the disease with 
its own poisons. 
The first thought that is bound to occur in considering the 
important role played by the staphylococcus, streptococcus and 
colon bacillus in so many diseases is that other diseases caused by 
other micro-organisms might be cured in the same or a similar 
way. 
15. There can be no doubt that Lux, a veterinarian, a pioneer 
of this method of treating disease, made a big reputation about 
1822 by curing many flocks of sheep and many shepherds of 
anthrax by giving the autogenous virus by the mouth. But Lux 
failed to recognize the great importance of the autogenous prod¬ 
uct, and drifted to using stock solution, or the heterologous 
product. For this reason he failed, and his system of medication 
