Concerning Inoculation
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the efficacy of that procedure in the way which had been commended, for such purposes, in my evidence to the Plague Commission of 1898-99, and in which I had been testing curative treatments in India. The experiment on that occasion was not completed by them, and although the preliminary statement which they made oil the results was favourable to the therapy, they did not persevere with the study, and the further use of the " statistical,' or, as it was termed, " gucm-statistical," method was dis-
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