A Plea for Simplicity in the Prevention and Cure of Bacterial Infection

a better illustration of the confusion of ideas in the minds of many, on this subject, would be hard to find. Then I propose to show that the body does not need an increase of the material employed to fight organisms?protective substance?which vaccines and serums aim at supplying, because all the protective substance necessary to combat infection is present in the system. Only the opportunity to get properly to work, and keep at it, is needed. Finally, it will be made clear that by the use of the very simplest of methods we can give protective substance all the assistance it requires to ward off infections, successfully and if already present, to bring them to an end as soon as