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Show Science vs. Disease. Flvo deadly diseases hnvo boon shorn of their worst terrors by tho method of treatment Introduced by Pasteur. In hydrophobia, which previously pre-viously had beon uniformly fatal, tho mortality under antitoxin treatment Is ono In flvo hundrod. In diphtheria tho number of deaths havo been ie-dticcd ie-dticcd from ono In two to ono In olght. In lockjaw tho scrum will prevent pre-vent tho dlscnso If used soon nftor tho wound Is Inflicted, and It has recently cured two cases In which It was Injected In-jected Into tho brnln and spine, and tho deaths from bubonic plaguo aro reduced from G3 to 1G per cent. |