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CHARLES LI. DUNCAN. 
There being no foreign proteid injected, anaphylaxis would be an 
impossibility by this method. 
This may be a bedside proceeding and has an extensive range 
of application in infectious diseases. The writer suggests that 
experiments be made in treating typhoid and cholera and other 
diseases where the toxins are excreted in the feces by adminis¬ 
tering the filtered stool hypodermically. 
The filtrate may be employed as an immunizing agent, to 
others who have been exposed to the disease. 
Conclusion. 
There never was a cure of bad infection that was not due to 
a reaction setting in the tissues. Reaction is the antithesis of 
action. The action of toxic substances that are developed during 
the course of the diseases tends to cause a curative reaction when 
they escape or are placed in healthy tissues. Remember, it is 
healthy tissues of any kind that react against toxic substances. 
If we place the toxic substances that are developed during the 
course of the disease in healthy tissues, resistance to them will 
tend to be developed. The reaction and antibodies to these toxic 
substances in healthy tissues is the reaction and antibodies of the 
disease. Hence the tissues tend to react to the disease by reacting 
to these toxic substances. 
Auto-inoculation employs all of the toxic substances developed 
during the course of the disease. This includes the toxic products 
of the bacteria and also all the toxic products of tissue changes 
against which the tissues react in a curative manner. 
Auto-therapy employs all of the autogenous toxic substances 
developed during the course of the disease (the same as auto¬ 
inoculation), against which the tissues react in a curative manner. 
Auto-inoculation and auto-therapy both employ the same identical 
toxic substances in performing a cure. Auto-inoculation is the 
means nature employs in performing a natural cure. Auto¬ 
therapy is the means the physician employs in assisting nature in 
performing a natural cure, both being natural cures. They both 
employ first the unchanged toxins from the fully identified micro- 
