establishments: that is, in the only establishments free from the
commercial temptation to adulterate materials and scamp
precautionary processes.

Even if the germ were identified, complete precautions would
hardly pay. It is true that microbe farming is not expensive. The
cost of breeding and housing two head of cattle would provide for
the breeding and housing of enough microbes to inoculate the
entire population of the globe since human life first appeared on
it. But the precautions necessary to insure that the inoculation
shall consist of nothing else but the required germ in the proper
state of attenuation are a very different matter from the
precautions necessary in the distribution and consumption of
beefsteaks. Yet people expect to find vaccines and antitoxins and
the like retailed at "popular prices" in private enterprise shops
just as they expect to find ounces of tobacco and papers of pins.


THE PERILS OF INOCULATION

The trouble does not end with the matter to be inoculated. There
is the question of the condition of the patient. The discoveries
of Sir Almroth Wright have shown that the appalling results which
led to the hasty dropping in 1894 of Koch's tuberculin were not
accidents, but perfectly orderly and inevitable phenomena
following the injection of dangerously strong "vaccines" at the
wrong moment, and reinforcing the disease instead of stimulating
the resistance to it. To ascertain the right moment a laboratory
and a staff of experts are needed. The general practitioner,
having no such laboratory and no such experience, has always